Integrity and Competence Key For Brown In 2008.
Wat Tyler Mon Dec 31, 2007 at 01:56:55 PM GMT 
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The challenges Gordon Brown must overcome to return to winning ways in the year to come.
Gordon Brown delivered a pugnacious New Years message yesterday promising to make the ‘real and serious changes, necessary to preserve economic stability and to make public services ‘more personal to the wishes and aspirations of Britons’.
In the year to come he pledged to build a vision for Britain based on ‘enduring traditions and values.’
After three months that have seen him go from delivering a Henry V style speech to his troops on the eve of the election that never was to flailing about on the blasted heath railing at the storms of bad luck besetting him from every side the Prime Minister is right to focus on the future rather than the recent past.
His only hope of turning around his current run of bad luck lies with facing up to and overcoming serious challenges relating to the competence and integrity of his government.
There can be no more lost computer discs, too many undecided voters are looking at the government and wondering if there is anything they can get right. In the happy days when we faced a divided and ineffectual Tory opposition they had little alternative, now, as Jack Straw recently admitted, David Cameron’s odd little wish list of policies are starting to ‘resonate’ with the public even the smallest mistake could cost us dear at the ballot box.
There can be no dodgy donations either, the party must make its finances transparent and we should hound the Tories and the Lib Dems to do likewise. While we’re at it we should be working hard to rebuild our relationship with the unions, if there are troubled times ahead we will need all the real friends we can muster.
Rather than worrying over whether or not the public perceive him to be weak for having ‘bottled’ over calling an election in the autumn Gordon Brown should concentrate on making sure Labour do well in the Local Elections next May.
A good result there would help the party to regain the ‘habit of victory’ that is necessary for success in politics, to do so real time and effort must be invested in reviving the fractured branch and constituency structures. Having a strong and engaged grassroots party will be more important that ever at the next general election.
Like the Prime Minister I want Britain to be a country that is ‘proud of its progress towards equality and confident of its future’ and I know that will only come about under a Labour government.
For that reason 2008 must be the year that the Labour Party sets about putting its house in order.
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