Dealing with Miliband: the inclusive approach

I wrote earlier that Brown is being urged to sack David Miliband.  But the Mirror’s Bob Roberts puts forward a different scenario – that Brown annoints Miliband as his heir apparent, thereby avoiding a leadership challenge now.  According to Roberts, our Prime Minister’s “ready” to do this, too – he may even seal the deal by making Miliband his Chancellor.

Hm.  You can see the attraction for Brown – unless he does something pretty drastic, he’s likely to be forced out before the next election, and won’t have any chance to rectify his battered reputation.  But two problems present themselves: 1) this could make Brown seem even weaker, and 2) I doubt people will be too keen on yet another New Labour succession deal.  The last one was far from a good thing for the Labour party or our national politics.

Problem is, almost all the other options have similiar, or worse, problems attached to them.  For Brown, it’s fast becoming a lose-lose-lose-lose-lose situation.  Which hardly makes his political survival a likely outcome.