Is it Brown trousers time in marginal constituencies?

alexanderbaker Fri Feb 23, 2007 at 11:12:55 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

With the latest contender in the leadership election, Michael Meacher, claiming that New Labour has had it, with Frank Field suggesting the party needs to skip a generation to remain viable, and with the commentariat stating that MPs and CLPs in marginal consitutencies are becoming increasingly concerned that Brown won't be able to prevent a Tory victory at the next election, I wondered what the grass-roots actually thought about a Brown led Labour party?



Personally, I remain rather unconvinced by the suggestion that Brown is an electoral liability. I rather agreed with Quentin Letts' assessment of the matter in The Observer this week - that his greatest asset is his experience.

Yet if my mind is to be changed on our chances of electoral success under Brown, it won't be because Brown is Scottish, or because he appears dour, or because he pretends to like the Artic Monkeys. It'll be because of the economy, stupid.

I recently wrote on this site about how it could all go wrong for Labour if the MPC get interest-rate setting wrong. Since then, inflation has eased and the economy looks to be heading back on course. But this story on ConservativeHome could be cause for concern. If Brown has truly lost the trust he did so well to build with his management of the economy, the question is rightly asked: what can he bring to the party as leader?

What do you think? Should Brown be the future of the party? Or is it Brown trousers time in Labour marginals across the country?


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