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They're doomed. Doomed.

Monday, 5th May 2008

Sorry I've not been able to post since Friday.

Albeit unintentionally, I've had to look at the election results with some distance. To state the obvious: it's an unmitigated disaster for Labour. Worse, it's not Labour per se which has been clobbered: it's Gordon Brown.

Those of us who long argued that, pace Meghnad Desai, Brown was put on the earth to show how good Tony Blair was, can say 'I told you so'. But that doesn't get anyone very far. What's striking now is that the evidence is clear, overwhelming even. Brown is unelectable, and so long as Labour sticks with him it is finished. Over. Buried.

As for the idea that he needs to change: purrrrrlease. Brown can't change. He hasn't morphed into a different Brown as PM: he is exactly what he has always been: incompetent, over-rated and barely fit for office. There's no scope for change. There's just Brown, with all the defects inherent in that. I watched him on Marr and Boulton yesterday and it was car crash TV. The all-new smiley humble changed Brown is, if anything, even worse then the original robotic Brown, given how unconvincing and false the act is. My wife, who is far from parti pris in these things, said she was physically unable to carry on watching, so weird was the spectacle.

And yet for all that the key Labour figures realise their problem, they appear unwilling to act, leaving the incompetent waste of space in office and, in so doing, actively contributing to their own forthcoming fate.

Do they want to lose? If you were presented with clear evidence that pursuing a certain course would bring disaster, would you not take immediate action to change course? You might not know what would be the best new course to take, but you'd be damn sure to try to work out an alternative. But no: this lot just rally round and plough on. What a shower.

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peter watkins

May 6th, 2008 11:25am

Why is the Jewish lobby against Brown?

Or is this their attempt as we saw with Mel Phillips in yesterday's Mail - to warn either side that they have still to make thier decision.

Which way are the Zionists on this? Pro Labour but anti Brown?
Conervative? What?

Stephen Pollard

May 6th, 2008 2:00pm

What 'Jewish lobby'? Are you as bigoted in other areas of your life? You see two Jewish commentators attack Brown and describe it as a Jewish lobby?

Jennie

May 7th, 2008 9:54am

Having allowed Brown to walk into the PM role unopposed, Labour MPs can't get rid of him so quickly. It would be even more damaging to the party to have to admit that they'd Made Such a Big Mistake. They've got to stick with Brown at least until the next GE, no doubt hoping that in the meantime he'll walk under the proverbial.