Tony - out in 12 months
So Tony Blair has today confirmed that he'll be stepping down in 12 months time, presumably handing power over to Gordon Brown. A lot of people will be thinking it's not before time.
Personally I'm in two minds about the whole thing. I can see that Blair, sadly, has become a liability for Labour and is unlikely to win another election, but at the same time I find it hard to believe that Brown can either. In some ways Brown is the worst of both worlds - part of the same unpopular government lead by Blair, but without the personality that kept Tony afloat up till now.
I also can't help thinking that at the last election we (or at least I and enough other people) voted for a Labour government under Tony Blair, not Brown. If we're going to go into the next election under somebody else, there at least needs to be a very open leadership contest first with some decent competition to Brown - and perhaps then a general election as soon as that replacement is appointed, not year(s) later.
Thoughts anyone?
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I think Gordon Brown has
I think Gordon Brown has such a bad reputation and public perception that he will be doomed before even starting.
I think we need a new fresh face, not someone who is tired and worn out by it all.
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i've got a horrible feeling
i've got a horrible feeling that fresh face might be david cameron in a couple of years! tho maybe there's someone lurking in the background at Labour who'll pop out in time to take the leadership from Brown.
I suppose to be fair to Brown he's not had much of a chance to impress anyone as a PM material being stuck at the treasury talking about budgets, but if he just goes on talking about prudence when he's in number 10 it's bad news..
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I'm almost certain that
I'm almost certain that there's nothing Labour can now do to win the next election.
Please
Can someone make a shiny new party, made up of all the right things? I despair, I truely do.
So who will win the next election?
So who will the next election? The lib dems seem more out of the running than ever; Cameron on the other hand has made up a lot of ground for the tories... I think it'd be disastrous if they got in, but it's looking quite probable.
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