Did Labour miss a trick in not calling for a confidence vote regarding the PM?
Can Labour win the next General Election with Gordon Brown? No, all the polling evidence, sentiment and feeling says they can't - pure and simple. I believe in not calling for a vote in confidence the Labour Party have sealed their fate.
Had they the balls to call for the vote I believe they could have clawed back some of the Tory lead no matter what the outcome, despite all this talk of it being too late or close to the election to do so. If they had voted against Brown and voted for a younger and more media friendly upstart then the voting public would be seeing a party looking to progress and more importantly the Labour Party would be keeping the Tories out of the public eye for a while. If they had overwhelmingly voted to keep Brown then they'd be seen as a party uniting behind their leader and again would be keeping the Tories out of the public eye for a while. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
I'm sure Cameron and his crew are actually glad the rebels didn't achieve their goal. Makes you wonder who the Labour Party have pulling the strings - they must be pretty spineless and lacking any ambition.
Worse still, why doesn't Brown have the balls to call the vote himself? He's going to lose the next election anyway, he might as well finally know whether his party are behind him.
Agreed. The worst thing about bottling it *again* is that even people like me who would quite like a genuinely progressive government, aren't going to vote for a party led by an incompetent, socially inadequate bully whose entire policy since 1997 has been to upset the other guy, whether 'the other guy' was Blair or Cameron. He's a disaster for Britain, and he has allowed the PLP to show themselves as spineless ciphers several times too often.
ReplyDeleteThe worst result in the entire world would be for him to be able to claim some kind of mandate, however thin. So those of us who care about the country will do whatever it takes to spare the nation from any more of his feckless dithering.
What was amazing, was that this was seen as an attempted coup rather than offering him a chance to have a mandate, at least with his party. As Nick Robinson said, 'If they (PLP and particularly the cabinet) had the courage to say in public what they say to me in private, he'd be gone.' Spineless muppets. I can't wait till they're gone and from the sound of things, neither can they.
Cheers for the comment Macha. I reckon deep inside the PM wants to call the vote but just can't bring himself to. Bit like a teenage boy desprate to ask a girl he likes out, but hasn't the guts to do it.
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