It is all over for Gordon bar the shouting?

I suppose Tony Blair was alot brighter and intelligent than people gave credit for. He stood down from the British premiership when his reputation was still intact, bar Iraq, and he will go down in history as electorally the most successful Labour leader
in their history. He will outstrip Gordon Brown, who will go down as a Labour leader
who never won a general election. Blair attracted disaffected Conservative voters in a way Brown will never be able to since he has tried to tax them into the ground.
(Sorry, I am just thinking about my shredded defined benefit pension plan.)

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I always thought Gordon Brown's economic skills were poor and in 1997 he benefitted from the strong position left by the then Tory chancellor Kenneth Clarke. Now, we can
see the UK prime minister has poor political skills as well. I bet he regrets supporting Harriet Harman in the election for Labour deputy leader. To gain plaudits with the Labour Left, Brown was unnecessarily insulting to George W. Bush, who was still President of the United States at the time. I don't think Gordon is top of the Christmas card list for the guys at the Pentagon following the disaster at Basra.

The British national press are coming out with reports that cabinet discipline has broken down and that nobody in Labour, with the exception of Gordon Brown, believes that they will win the next election. Leaving the general election until 2010 was a decision, which showed that the Prime Minister was less confident in his own abilities. It is better to narrowly lose an election than get wiped out (like John Major, who at least won a general election). If British unemployment is going to reach 3m, it takes absolute ages to get it down again. If I was Gordon I would go for a May election and to try and get a creditable result.

One journalist quoted a cabinet minister, who said that all politicians make enemies but Gordon has proportionally made too many. Both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair
attracted massive support, both politically and personally. So, Gordon can go on about "deglobalisation" to his heart's content but that does not really play well with the voters. Apparently, in the past 18 months he has not made a single speech about crime. Is that rational behaviour for a voter? And in this important area Gordon appointed the venal Jacqui Smith as Home Secretary. Goodbye Gordon!