Saturday, May 05, 2007

The day after the day after the day before

Much chat in blogosphere of what happens now in Scotland - not least "Where's Gordon?" As his pal Alf Young says he is in his North Queensferry home. Presumably thinking.
And what would he be thinking about?
Well, if he was a brave and forthright person, he should be saying that his and Bliar's version of the Labour party had run it's course. Oh there will be some ups that can be engineered, but essentially it's over. It has been for some time, but it's a bit like the headless chicken.
That being the case, what is his best move? It isn't to go to Downing Street. He can go there and struggle on for a couple of years, but his majority would likely wilt under the poressure of all those NuLab nodobies on the backbenches trying to secure their post-gravy train positions.It would be a living death by 1000 cuts, especially as he has spent all the money.
No, the really smart move would be to get out now " for family reasons". There's clearly an increasing tide of people mentioning him being a closet gay - even Ian Hyslop on HIGNFY last night, several newspapers and lots of blogs. One could say there's no smoke without fire, but that would be trite. Either it's an orchestrated effort to annoy and defile him, or it's true. The perception is that it will be true unless he sues someone. And we all know how that turned out for Oscar Wilde.
He could go to a seriously well paid job, probably with the IMF, or at the EU, with little loss of dignity, and actually a bit of respect. The alternative is he will preside over the end of NuLabour - and possibly Old Labour too.
Even Bliar's legacy ( whatever that might be) will be better than Gordo's if that's the case.
And just a final word about the LibDems. Ming ain't going to do it. Nor is anyone else. They are now in terminal decline. As before, I predict they will go left and the remains of the Labour party will join them in the wilderness. Bliar got in because noone believed he was a leftie - not that nice Mr. Blare. The first wiff of socialism ( and there is already more than that) will see the end of it.

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