Gordon Brown insisted yesterday that he can steer Labour to victory in the next general election, despite his abysmal track record as both prime minister and leader of the Labour party. This statement came amidst growing Cabinet concern over Mr. Brown’s stance on public sector spending. Is Brown delusional?
After five cabinet resignations in one day, isn’t it about time for Gordon Brown to take a hint and just give up? Can’t he see that this isn’t working? Not for him, Labour or the country. Brown’s leadership seems to have been doomed from day one, when he was hit with a world in financial turmoil. Then came the Damien McBride affair. Then the Gurkha’s. And then the biggest and most damaging scandal of them all; MPs expenses. Time to call it a day, Mr. Brown.
The British public is turning on it’s elected MPs as the expenses scandals continues. A window is smashed, a garden is vandalized and vengeance is demanded from the Westminster representatives. Many people feel that the greed in Westminster is ‘not politics, but theft’, and the pressure is mounting on Brown to call a general election. The British public wants revenge.
The expenses scandal keeps on rolling. Today we have heard from David Cameron, who is apparently appalled over some of the Conservative MPs expenses claims, and promised that he will lead senior Conservatives in repaying excessive expenses, warning that he will boot any MP who refuse out of the party. Will Blears be the first sacrifice?
An opinion poll carried out for the Mail on Sunday gave Labour the worst result since 1943. Carried out on Thursday and Friday it gave Labour 23 % while the Conservatives got 45%. That is enough for a landslide victory if repeated at an election. This paints a bleak picture for Gordon Brown, who faces a parliamentary election due by mid-May 2010. That is not a long time for Labour to turn things around, and with one scandal following the next, it seems impossible at this point in time. Worst Labour performance since 1943.
The Forfeiture Committee is to consider whether it should act to strip Sir Fred Goodwin of the knighthood he received in 2004 for his services to banking. The former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland has caused widespread public and political anger after he took early retirement and subsequently got a £700,000 yearly pension from the bank he so nearly bankrupted. Goodwin to be stripped of knighthood?
According to newspaper reports, Gordon Brown has only got two things right over the last nine months. That is not a good track record for a prime minister, and especially not when he was used to having an almost cult status as Chancellor of the Exchequer having made British Economy one of the best in the world. The spotlight does not favour Gordon Brown.
Gordon Brown’s leadership skills are under even more pressure today, as the new unemployment figures were made official yesterday. The figures saw the highest increase in February since records began in 1971. 138,400 people lost their jobs in February, taking the total number of people out of work to 2.03 million people. Under pressure.
In a private meeting of the Parliamentary Labour party at Westminster on Monday night, Gordon Brown accepted that his party has suffered badly in recent months as the recession has hit the UK. He warned MPs to ‘brace themselves for a fresh battering from voters in the coming weeks as the recession deepens’. Brown admits recession will be bad for Labour.
After the historic election of Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States , the head of Britain ’s equality watchdog has claimed that Britain is not ready to do the same. This is not due to racism from the British voters, but from within the political parties. No British Obama.