Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Labour Government starts to self-destruct
Just when you thought that nothing more could go wrong for Gordon Brown further troubles appear through an extraordinary interview with Alisdair Darling.
Speaking to Sky News the Chancellor of the Excheqeur said that people working for Mr Brown tried to damage him because he told the truth about the economy.
His remarks follow reports in a new book by Andrew Rawnsley that Mr Brown’s aides tried to undermine him after he forecast the worse economic downturn for 60 years.
“Nobody likes the sort of briefing that goes on,” Mr Darling said, “the forces of hell were unleashed”.
According to the to book, allies of Mr Brown including Charlie Whelan, a senior union official, and Damian McBride, then his political spokesman, then began a systematic campaign to undermine Mr Darling over the “60 years” interview, raising the prospect that he would be sacked.
All this does of course is to reopen the speculation stirred up by the book and add further to the impression of a divided government. It is not good for Labour at all.
Speaking to Sky News the Chancellor of the Excheqeur said that people working for Mr Brown tried to damage him because he told the truth about the economy.
His remarks follow reports in a new book by Andrew Rawnsley that Mr Brown’s aides tried to undermine him after he forecast the worse economic downturn for 60 years.
“Nobody likes the sort of briefing that goes on,” Mr Darling said, “the forces of hell were unleashed”.
According to the to book, allies of Mr Brown including Charlie Whelan, a senior union official, and Damian McBride, then his political spokesman, then began a systematic campaign to undermine Mr Darling over the “60 years” interview, raising the prospect that he would be sacked.
All this does of course is to reopen the speculation stirred up by the book and add further to the impression of a divided government. It is not good for Labour at all.
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"All this does of course is to reopen the speculation stirred up by the book and add further to the impression of a divided government."
I take your point that it extends the news cycle on this - but surely the sting is drawn to a degree by the fact that it was well known at the time what was going on, making it "old news"? Moreover, the news that Alistair Darling and GB have a few problems - it's less than ten months since Brown tried to sack him!
All in all, I would judge that it's merely another bad news cycle for Brown rather than a development of the story.
I take your point that it extends the news cycle on this - but surely the sting is drawn to a degree by the fact that it was well known at the time what was going on, making it "old news"? Moreover, the news that Alistair Darling and GB have a few problems - it's less than ten months since Brown tried to sack him!
All in all, I would judge that it's merely another bad news cycle for Brown rather than a development of the story.
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: 11:04 AM
Wow, we're getting to see the final crumbling of a failed government before our very eyes.
Let's just hope that Labour does the best it can for progressive politics now, and dissolve itself.
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Let's just hope that Labour does the best it can for progressive politics now, and dissolve itself.
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