Posts Tagged ‘Gordon Brown’
Labour coup-plot does not help anyone
Less than six months from the latest possible date for a general election, ex-ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon have called for a leadership contest in the Labour party. Hewitt, who is stepping down as an MP, said "This is not an attempted coup", which tidily gets the word 'coup' into popular discussion without making it her words. What [...]
Definitely. Maybe. Perhaps. We hope so
"Recognising marriage in the tax system is something I feel very strongly about and something we will definitely do in the next parliament. We will set out exactly how in due course," was Cameron's conclusion to a day of confusion, when he had earlier said: "It is something we want to do, something we believe we can do, it's something, within a [...]
For “war-cabinet” read “My team isn’t good enough”
UK Conservative leader David Cameron has a problem. If he really believes that he is going to lead the country later this year (though the polls are pointing towards a hung-parliament), then his team is simply not strong enough. True, he's got former chancellor Ken Clarke -- good old Ken -- but, aside from that, he has no-one with economic clout [...]
Election talk: fluff
Talk of a General Election in March is just fluff, unless we as a nation can decide what MPs are really for. But neither Brown nor Cameron, nor yet the Daily Telegraph, seem ready to face the real crisis: politics in Britain is broken, and it needs fixing fast. But what, and how? What kinds of Prime Minister are there? I made a little list: [...]
