Disquiet on the Labour backbenches, calls for Brown to go, Harriet Harman calling for “unity” – ie, politician-speak for “I’m game”: will Labour stage a mutiny this summer, as they failed to do last summer? Absolutely not. Tories do mutiny, and do it properly. It’s House of Cards-style brutality: serious people doing serious violence to each other.
With the Tories, it’s a lethal drama. In my News of the World column I say what we’re likely to get from Labour is a summer pantomime. A tragicomic performance with mad hatter Brown, John Prescott returning to the stage, chasing girls and raising laughs and David Miliband whipping out another banana. And none of them taking out Brown.
We saw last summer that Labour is psychologically incapable of removing a leader. It offends their collectivist instincts.
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