So, this morning’s Most Significant Intervention comes courtesy of Jon Cruddas, writing in the Sunday Mirror. Although the Dagenham MP makes sure to criticise the Government over Royal Mail, and over its general “drift”, the main message is that the party should stick with Brown:
“Everyone knows our Government is in trouble. Serious trouble. But to suggest that we’ll tackle those problems simply by chucking Gordon Brown overboard is madness.
We’re now less than a year away from the election. We have no more chances left. We either pull ourselves together, stake out what we stand for, or we will be gone.
If we don’t, the next Ministers to walk out of the Cabinet will find David Cameron and his friends walking in to replace them.”
Why so significant? Well, as James said a couple of days back, the anti-Brown rebels could do with people on the left of the party – people like Cruddas – to come out in support of their actions; to give the movement an all-Labour feel, and prevent it being caricatured as an “ultra-Blarite” plot.
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