FFS, someone stick the knife in already. If disaffected teenagers can do it why can’t Labour?
The British weekend papers are full (yet again) of speculation and hot air about how dreadful that Gordon Brown is and how entirely useless; all are agreed, everyone hates him and he should go – but they’re also agreed that his MPs are all all too bloody scared, too frit or too attached to their pensions, salaries and mortgage support to actually do anything so honourable as to rid the country of such an obviously festering boil.
How long has this been going on now? But there is a theoretical way out that would let any frightened internal assassin off the hook and end this impasse. Not that I think any Labour MP should be let off the hook for anything – this is purely in the interests of expediency.
However it would mean talking to the Opposition and preparing to lose one’s job:
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