"Labour is still on the ropes. It just looks different," said David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, according to Time magazine. The Independent's latest "poll of polls" suggests that he is right. Yes, there is a "Brown bounce." But, so far, it is not as big as some Labour MPs think, or hope, and the Tories are still on course for a huge Commons majority.
True, Brown is back in the game, and in a much better place than he was at the start of the party conference season. The $64,000 question is: will the "Brown bounce" will get bigger as the economic crisis gets deeper? In the short term, it may well do. But some ministers are advising caution about the medium term. Wisely. They are starting to prepare the ground for grim news on unemployment, business failures and an official recession (two consecutive quarters of negative growth). Full details of our "poll of polls" in tomorrow's paper.
Y'mean - how great is our confidence in a man who's used Anti-Terrorism powers against the Government of Iceland??
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!
"Brown Bounce" - what a woeful pile of dross.
Posted by: Neil McGowan | Thursday, 09 October 2008 at 07:50 PM
I'm waiting for the Hubris Bus to turn up. It'll be arriving any moment now in news studios across the nation, and Hazel Blears will alight to tell the world to be thankful that New Labour under Gordon Brown's amazing leadership and tutelage has been rescued from financial Armageddon in the nick of time.
Wanna bet the government won't try to make political mileage out of this crisis they have helped solve? Sure, they helped create it, so fair's fair.
Posted by: Mike Mitchell | Monday, 13 October 2008 at 10:38 AM