What's the reason? Why, if it prospers, none dare call it treason. (John Harington)
Today is both glorious and tragic. Glorious in that I'm having a cup of tea with the Deer Friend, recently returned to these shores from a few weeks' grave-robbing in the pyramids. Weren't they a cheap rip-off of After Eights in the nineties?
Tragic in that bitter, twisted, selfish, self-important, deluded, reactionary no-mark Blairites are stabbing Gordon Brown in the back. As I said before, I've never rated him as much more than a capitalist stooge, but I like dour, eeyoreish monsters. Now I feel sorry for him - the unwanted dog in the pound, whipped, beaten and beneath contempt.
Who the fuck are these people? Does Blears think she'll be a rallying point for the Blairites? Does Purnell think his moment has come at last? Frankly, I wouldn't recognise him if he was alone in a room with his name on the door - and I'm a politics obsessive. They're not saving the party by knifing the prime minister. They're making it clear to the country that they'd rather get some headlines by treating Brown like a gimp than run the country or make Labour electable again. They're clearly neither socialists nor Labour supporters, because all they're doing is helping the Tories. How does guaranteeing a Tory government help the working people of this country? Blears, Purnell and Hutton are traitors, pure and simple. Watch as they pick up lucrative directorships and turn their backs on the people who (mistakenly) elected them.
The Guardian's live-blogging the shenanigans here.
2 comments:
a) Do you think Labour can win the general election?
b) Do you think THEY think Labour can win the election?
My suspicion is that they are trying to break up the Labour ship so they can avoid another eon in opposition, and make it at least feasible to win the election in 2014.
I am by no means a political obsessive, but I don't think Labour can win the next election, sadly.
"And finally:" A friend of mine has pointed out that Gordon Brown's "street name" is the unfortunate 'GoBro'.
James: no to both questions. It's like 1983, with Labour's inner circle calculating how they'll stand after the election - if they keep their seats. Some will see an empty party to take over (the Blair 1987 manoeuvre), some will leave, either for another party or out of politics. The Blairites are terrified because the more leftwing members are in safer seats: ex-Tories voted for Toryish Labour candidates and are now returning to their natural home. So in a sense, we'll get a better Labour party through defeat, but ideological purity is wasted without power.
Great street name. Mine is therefore PlaVo. Got a certain cachet, I feel.
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