The Knives are out and they Are Sharp!

The latest “rat” to come out of the cesspit that is “New Labour” is Charles Clarke, who launches an attack on Gorgeous Gordon (well gorgeous might be a little off the mark, I suppose it very much depends on your tastes and sexual preferences). Personally I don’t have a lot of time for Charlie the Safety Elephant, but this time I think he is dead right, and that Gordon has to prove that he is leadership material; my opinion is that he is not, do we need a Labour leader who will be constantly going off in a sulk if he can’t get his own way? I THINK NOT!

However there are those who think that he is wrong: a bit of New Labour tottie was trotted out on the Today Programme this morning in the form of Ruth Kelly, who made me choke on my toast not once but twice; two quotes did it, the first being that Tony Blair has been the “most open and honest Prime Minister” we have had for a very long time, the second being that he has been an ”extraordinarily successful and brilliant Prime Minister“. Well, sit on me please to stop me rolling on the floor laughing!

Here we have a Prime Minister who has constanly lied to the public, who has been the most Draconian PM ever (and I include Thatcher), who says he has a “moral conviction” (which I have yet to see evidence of), yet who I think has worse morals than a street fighting tom cat. Old consumption (TB) has no one but himself to blame for the feeding frenzy that is at present taking place; if he had kept his big mouth shut (something that he appears to be manifestly unable to do) and had not said after the last election that he would be standing down before the next, no one would have been any the wiser and he could simply have made the decision in his own time. However, all he has managed to do is to create divisions within the Labour Party which are equally as damaging as those of the Kinnock era when they were trying to deal with the whole Militant issue. We all know that TB is so enamoured with the political stage that he is not going to go of his own free will, and that he is going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming from it; well the sooner that happens the better, but the question actually frightens me is ‘who is going to replace him?’ If that replacement happens to be Gordon Brown then I am afraid that will be the biggest disaster that the Labour Party has faced in the whole of its history.