A Lion, Three Donkeys and a Mouse
Real Labour Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 06:30:13 PM GMT 
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"As he surveys the wreckage, the procrastinating PM will be ruing the day he put boys into the jobs of men".
Gordon is a big girls blouse for not calling an election. He has damaged his image as a courageous lion-hearted big beast of British politics, and handed the Tories momentum.
I have little doubt that he could have put his towering intellect to good use, and have produced a manifesto of substance which would have shown voters that unlike Cameron's Tories, Labour has a practical and progressive plan for Britain.
Yet when confronted by a mouse like Cameron, - who was aided by a week of favourable coverage by his chums in the media - Gordon cowered, panicked and ran away.
To make matters worse, Brown has chosen to embrace spin; and over the past week this has backfired badly. Brown refused to rule out an election and allowed Douglas Alexander et al to spin the possibility and then probability of an election.
Douglas, like his sister Wendy, is too clever by half. His competence must be questioned after the disastrous Scottish election campaign that he 'masterminded', and after the humiliating fiasco in the same election which led to hundreds of thousands of votes being voided, for which he was also responsible.
Like the other donkeys behind the on/off election spin fiasco, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, Alexander has risen to become a senior figure in the Brown administration not because of his ability, but because of his loyalty to Brown.
Its time for Gordon to show some bottle and bring wise veteran of the political battleground Charlie Whelan back into the fold, and also bring back Nick Brown as chief whip and give Geoff "Buff" Hoon a job more suited to his intellect, like flipping burgers in McDonalds or something. He should also make Ken Livingstone party chairman because this would reconnect with the party's base and bring back some credibility to attempts to put the wars behind him.
"Get some greybeards around you. Politics is an adult board game; you can't win anything with kids"
I have little doubt that he could have put his towering intellect to good use, and have produced a manifesto of substance which would have shown voters that unlike Cameron's Tories, Labour has a practical and progressive plan for Britain.
Yet when confronted by a mouse like Cameron, - who was aided by a week of favourable coverage by his chums in the media - Gordon cowered, panicked and ran away.
To make matters worse, Brown has chosen to embrace spin; and over the past week this has backfired badly. Brown refused to rule out an election and allowed Douglas Alexander et al to spin the possibility and then probability of an election.
Douglas, like his sister Wendy, is too clever by half. His competence must be questioned after the disastrous Scottish election campaign that he 'masterminded', and after the humiliating fiasco in the same election which led to hundreds of thousands of votes being voided, for which he was also responsible.
Like the other donkeys behind the on/off election spin fiasco, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, Alexander has risen to become a senior figure in the Brown administration not because of his ability, but because of his loyalty to Brown.
Its time for Gordon to show some bottle and bring wise veteran of the political battleground Charlie Whelan back into the fold, and also bring back Nick Brown as chief whip and give Geoff "Buff" Hoon a job more suited to his intellect, like flipping burgers in McDonalds or something. He should also make Ken Livingstone party chairman because this would reconnect with the party's base and bring back some credibility to attempts to put the wars behind him.
"Get some greybeards around you. Politics is an adult board game; you can't win anything with kids"
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