A loaded pistol and a bottle of whiskey in the library....

[Claud.Butler]

Could they be the answer to Gordon Brown's problems?

[paraffin]

This answer is me being objective, NOT sticking up for Brown, believe me. Anyway, here goes:

1. There is a world recession which any fairminded person could not attribute to Brown.

2. The banking crisis was not brought about by Brown.

3. The MPs expenses scandal was not masterminded or caused by Brown.

4. The Speaker "crisis" was not engineered by Brown.

5. The local elections / European results would have been just as bad no matter who the PM would have been.

6. David Cameron, incessantly calling for Brown to go and for a General Election, has yet to spell out any policies he would pursue were he to become PM.

7. The media created much of the disquiet surrounding Brown.

8. With a GE at most a year away, how would the Labour Party benefit at this late stage from changing their leader?

[Gromit]

The internal machinations of the Labour Party can be quite amusing, but in the great scheme of things do not matter a jot to you or me.

We are led to believe it is a great crisis by the 24 hour News programmes with time to fill, but it isn't.

The story so far...

1997: Blair and Brown make a Gentlemans agreement that Blair would be PM and Brown would follow him.

2007: Blair finally goes but the accession is not a smooth one. Labour MPs would have favoured a vote with other candidates, but no one was brave enough to come forward.

2007: Brown tries to placate the Blairites by giving several of them good jobs in the cabinet.

2009: Blears, Smith and Purnell, prominent Blairites are exposed as making dodgy expenses claims. With an election days away, Brown is reluctant to sack half his cabinet and waits. Knowing they are for the chop, in a final act of treatry, they resign en mass hoping to trigger his removal. For the moment that seems to have failed.

All good fun but none of it really matters to you or I.

[fredpuli47]

And shouldn't that be 'whisky '? He's a Scot.It would be a bit too mean to give him the Irish stuff ! LOL