uk politics for a change...

[Deckard]

I think just about every Labour MP knows in their heart that Gordon Broon as PM has become a gargantuan liability.

It's far more than just 'the bottom jaw thing' now.

The dilemma is that removing him would result in a very very messy situation (think what happened with the Kennedy/Ming succession and multiply it by... oooh, 50?) and even with a bright young thing taking the reins, the calls for an immediate general election would be intense, especially second time around. Despite the Blears-esque public pronouncements, they each realise that it would be an election they couldn't possibly win.

As far as I can see, there is literally nothing Labour can now do to get out of this. They have no choice but to endure the next 18 months or so like some slow-motion car crash, watching the economy sink further, losing more data, listening to Gordon bleating on about how he's going to just get on with the job, taking the right long-term decisions for the tough economic conditions ahead, how he's the right man for the job, blah blah blah.... someone wake me up when he's finished.....

Then once the Tories win by their landslide - as I suspect they will - Labour will be left to wait another decade or more for the pendulum to swing back in their direction. By which time.......

It's all really rather shit, isn't it?