The real sickness is Labour’s, not Brown’s

Moraymint

... and good riddance to the lot of them. Like you said, they sought power for power's sake. They squandered their opportunity to create a better Britain. The Labour Party, in thrall to its unelected spooks, proved itself to be no more than a bunch of pointless political gangsters.

One hopes that finally democracy will indeed prevail, much as the Labour Party has sought to corrupt democracy, with Brown its worst offender, and we'll never see the likes of such an outfit again.

This has been a dire and shameful period in British political history and I, for one, can't wait for the end of it.

Pat

The Labour party officially dropped clause 4 socialism purely because they couldn't get elected with it- as Mr. Blair pointed out to them. It seems improbable that much of the membership, especially the more active members such as Mr. Brown, ever stopped believing in it. With both the complacency that comes from years unchallenged, and the need to react to events on the basis of gut belief (there isn't always time do do anything else), they've gone back to their old ways. But the electorate still don't want clause 4 socialism. Labour is dead, because socialism is dead- and they will be replaced with some other anti Tory party- presumably but not necessarily a revived Liberal Party.

Mike Godfrey

All democracies need opposition parties but its time for Labour to be forced aside to allow other parties to counter balance the ruling party. The New Labour experiment was doomed before it started when Blair left a psychologically disturbed Gordon Brown in charge of the purse strings whilst the rest of them lined their pockets & furthered their self serving social programs. Labour no longer represent any significant group in the country and that if nothing more should seal their demise. Middle England isn't represented, trade union members aren't represented, private sector workers are fleeced by Browns taxation policies and the only winners are the 'Brown' nosing union officials looking for a snout at the trough or obscure donors looking for a peerage. When a product has reached its useful life we discard it and so it should be for the Labour party. The sad part is the cost to the country and electorate in family break up, social division, racism and poverty all of which were a direct result of the demented policies by a bunch of mentally deranged Labour ministers.

TomTom

The ultimate irony is that Blair was too weak to fire Chancellor Gordon Brown......and Brown is too weak to fire Chancellor Alistair Darling !

Scotch corner home guard

A suggested technical correction
Mandelson does not glide - he slithers.

hadrian

Having, for the last half century, inculcated a culture of State and welfare dependency it is no wonder that when it all crumbles- as inevitably it must, the State being anything but omnipotent- large sections of the community in their socialistic and needy mind-set will turn to extremist parties that offer easy and highly specific political solutions and reassurance to society's woes. This is one of Labour's worst legacies to our once far freer nation. Mention of Charlie Whelan makes me think of last night's QT where his tired old mantra was 'intervention'....and how the idiots applauded him! If this is what Broon will return us to then we really will be facing national long term poverty in the face.
Let's just hope in Norwich North they get a further fright.

paul gilboy

labour have began to talk to themselves instead of the electorate, a dance of death for any political party.
A natural consequence of this intrespection will be a savage leadership campaign, to control the carcass.
The choices they made brought them to this point.
By denying the electorate a say via a general election may have seemed good politics but it will spell the end for their party in the forseeable future.