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Glasgow East
Well - has the East End of Glasgow finished Brown off?
By Elections are by elections, but to lose the 25th safest seat in the country is unthinkable. Losing Crewe was unthinkable.
Whether or not Brown really is the worst primeminister since the Earl of Bute is another question, but does he HAVE to go now? Surely it is impossible for him to come back from this level of unpopularity... the economic downturn is not all his fault - but his weakness, his dithering, his inability to make decisions, his lack of charisma, the 10% taxation outrage (and the car tax disaster he seems to be sleepwalking into as well)... I dont know who else there is to turn to, but there must be voices in Labour now calling for drastic action.
Sack Brown, bring in Jack Straw as a "caretaker" leader, call a snap election and accept a defeat with Tories holding something like a 50 seat majority... and try to rebuild the damage done by the slow erosion of what Labour stood for under Blair and the calamity of the leadership of Brown.
Is it now getting to the state that this idea doesnt sound that crazy?
Ive heard talk that even Labour MPs are saying privately things like "well, Cameron wouldnt be that bad, we've had a good innings, etc etc".. two more years of Brown could destroy the movement. God forbid, if there *IS* a crisis of some kind, a war or attack on the UK - would you want this ditherer, this bottler, in charge?
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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