In The Brown Stuff

Just when we all thought it could not get any worse for Chairman Brown it does.

Oh fuck it does. When shit pours down on you, fuck it pours!

The 'Earthquake In Scotland' that the SNP predicted duly happened and although it has not made Chairman Brown fall onto his sword as of yet, it surely does make the end that bit more inevitable than it was not even 48 hours ago.

Brown has to make a calculated decision which will affect and change the UK, in whatever form the Union exists in the next few years. If Brown was to go at the Labour Party Conference in the autumn, then that gives any potential leader, about 18 months to resurrect the party's fortunes and avoid the sort of cataclysmic landslide that befallen the Tories in 1997. That could happen to be the only chance left in the locker.

That is to presume that any leader wouldn't go to the country after any leadership contest.

Someone like Jack Straw probably would, whilst the chief Femi-Nazi Harriet Harman, would probably think 'screw the country' and in due course make Left-Wing politics in this country go back by the best part of 30 years. It took the best part of 20 years to convince the electorate that where we as Left-Liberals was the best course for the country.

It would take that long as least to get the people back onside, and at a time when minorities are bring persecuted in Europe at the hands of the right-wing zealots, such as Berlusconi and Sarkozy, a lurch to the Right would be the wrong path to take.

The Labour Party has a big call to make. To allow Brown to cling onto power until 2010 is signal a unprecendented wipeout of Labour MPs in their Heartlands, and I don't believe the Tories and SNP would be the only beneficiaries of such a collapse.

If they were to elect someone from the Labour Left, then any such election would see Labour keep their rock-solid territory. Yes, I admit, they would lose and lose badly. But they would keep their strongholds in the North-East of England, Merseyside and Central Scotland, as well parts of Yorkshire and South Wales.

Keeping the status quo does not guarantee any of the above. It can get much, much worse, if Brown is still in charge come 2010.

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