Sunday, August 03, 2008
The big story
Am I the only one who is getting bored of the torrent of stories about Gordon Brown and his under-threat-premiership? It is supposed to be the silly season for goodness sake. The newspapers need to lighten up and yet despite strenuous efforts by past masters of the art nobody seems to be able to come up with a story.
Even Matt Withers is struggling in his Wales on Sunday column. He concludes today's piece with the disturbing sentence:
FINALLY, Montgomeryshire MP and Wales’ most eligible bachelor Lembit Öpik has done nothing this week. That’s how dull it’s been.
A quick scan of the heavies reveals a common obsession. The Sunday Times tells us that Gordon Brown suffered a devastating new blow to his authority last night with the publication of a secret memo revealing Tony Blair’s true opinion of his performance. The secret document apparently contains a catalogue of criticisms of Brown’s performance since taking office, accusing him of playing into David Cameron’s hands with a “lamentable confusion of tactics and strategy”. Blair warns that the embattled prime minister may have made a “fatal mistake” by “dissing” the government’s own record to cash in on “anti-TB [Tony Blair] feeling” when he had “nothing to put in its place".
And there it is in the Sunday Telegraph too and the Observer, whilst The Independent on Sunday devotes itself to an analysis of David Miliband's leadership attributes. They call him the 'Milky Bar Kid' as if he is going to step inside No.10 and mow down the bad guys with chocolate bars. Already there are attempts to recruit a 'stop-Miliband candidate' before Gordon Brown has even stood down. The former Iron Chancellor's days truly are numbered.
I cannot take it any more. The cat has occupied the computer again, so I am off to the Gower Show.
Even Matt Withers is struggling in his Wales on Sunday column. He concludes today's piece with the disturbing sentence:
FINALLY, Montgomeryshire MP and Wales’ most eligible bachelor Lembit Öpik has done nothing this week. That’s how dull it’s been.
A quick scan of the heavies reveals a common obsession. The Sunday Times tells us that Gordon Brown suffered a devastating new blow to his authority last night with the publication of a secret memo revealing Tony Blair’s true opinion of his performance. The secret document apparently contains a catalogue of criticisms of Brown’s performance since taking office, accusing him of playing into David Cameron’s hands with a “lamentable confusion of tactics and strategy”. Blair warns that the embattled prime minister may have made a “fatal mistake” by “dissing” the government’s own record to cash in on “anti-TB [Tony Blair] feeling” when he had “nothing to put in its place".
And there it is in the Sunday Telegraph too and the Observer, whilst The Independent on Sunday devotes itself to an analysis of David Miliband's leadership attributes. They call him the 'Milky Bar Kid' as if he is going to step inside No.10 and mow down the bad guys with chocolate bars. Already there are attempts to recruit a 'stop-Miliband candidate' before Gordon Brown has even stood down. The former Iron Chancellor's days truly are numbered.
I cannot take it any more. The cat has occupied the computer again, so I am off to the Gower Show.
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# posted by 
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: 2:47 AM
It seems to me that all this speculation about the job security of the PM is not helpful in the current economic climate. It is a truism that markets do not like uncertainty. The prospect of an unknown taking over as chief executive of the UK would aggravate uncertainty.
Brown was a lucky chancellor and is a barely adequate PM, but now is not the time to get rid of him.
Brown was a lucky chancellor and is a barely adequate PM, but now is not the time to get rid of him.
Brown is feeling the job insecurity that many people are feeling in this new economic climate that Labour has created. Maybe he's more like us than we realise.
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