Labour, at our best when at our boldest. That means "Blair must stand in Glenrothes", says ACLB* on the Labourhome website. Given that Jackie Ashley, cheerleader (retired) for Gordon Brown, says in her column today that the by-election in the seat next-door to the Prime Minister's is the new deadline for getting rid of him, this is all very jolly. As is this part of her column: most of the Cabinet, she says, feel that Brown's
No 10 organisation, his people skills and his ability to communicate are too poor to allow him to stay on. Those trivial talents in the back-slapping, sound-biting, cheering-up stakes, which Blair had so richly, do matter.
Excuse me while I dry my eyes. Don't say the Labour Party doesn't have a sense of humour as it heads in slow motion to "utter destruction".
*Yes, we all know to whom those initials belong.
But the by election will be fixed for the opposition.
Posted by: Berty | Monday, 15 September 2008 at 05:17 PM
Jackie Ashley is wrong. She is just a journalist. How would she know what is needed to run a country?
Posted by: Fred Bank | Monday, 15 September 2008 at 05:58 PM
But the by election will be fixed for the opposition. -> Probably true :(. Not a big fan of the labour party.
Posted by: Maddison | Tuesday, 16 September 2008 at 03:11 AM
Yes, if only we could get the 'people skills' right, then the whole country would be vastly improved.
Posted by: john problem | Tuesday, 16 September 2008 at 08:47 AM
Mr Rentoul, I expect you don't know whether to laugh or cry!?
A bit like me really, and I'm not even a Labour party member. But I would be now, if only ...
Mr Blair is not at all likely to stand in Glenrothes, although I have sent a few comments to the article at Labour Home with supportive reference to this call. There are too many reasons why he won't stand.
Still, I am awaiting patiently the opinion poll which shows us what kind of support he'd get if he were to stand. Have the pollsters been nobbled?
Interesting that some Labour members didn't get the "ACLB" alias.
Do many of them KNOW what they had in Blair?
Seems not, or they'd never have allowed him to be forced out, and replaced by ... well a second-rate dep.
Wonder why people in any one party only listen to their own members and the papers. It takes more than members' or the papers' votes to get elected.
I don't belong to any party right now, but I always look at the leader for inspired direction, vision and leadership.
Not inspired by ANY of the present leaders of any of the parties.
Posted by: BlairSupporter | Tuesday, 16 September 2008 at 02:17 PM