So all pals again then!

[R1Geezer]

So do you think Brown will survive to get his ar5e kicked at the next GE now then? He seems to have fronted out most of the ring twitchers!

[Gromit]

He has survived for now, but there is the problem of the Labour Party conference in September.

The Blairites will continue their plotting, but Lord Mandy, as long as he remains on Brown's side will probably out maneouvre and out bully them.

Whatever Labour do, short of a miracle, they will lose the next election. The electorate are just fed up of them. It would be a poison chalis to elect someone like Alan Johnson just to lose.

They will hope for the economy to improve in the next 12 months, and that expenses scandal will be forgotten. Probably lose, but not as drastically than if they triggered an election now, then elect a new leader with a clean sheet.

[rov1200]

Now that Labour is such a broad church you would expect some disagreements within it. Add to this you get sacked ministers like the failed Chas Clarke who is forever stirring,
and Byers who is glued to the hoof of Tony Blair (makes you wonder what favours he obtained). Its only a mid term protest vote by the electorate so when the dust has cleared, the country has emerged from recession, and people start getting their jobs back by next year he will be the saviour and will be amptly rewarded at the ballot box.

[R1Geezer]

I'd get down the bookies mate, you can name your price for Labour! You must be the only one who thinks they can win, I don't think even Brown thinks he can win next time.

[youngmafbog]

wot u smokin rov, pass it round.

R1, looks like an ar5e kicking @ ge to me. The economy will not turn round by then, thats for sure.

[dave2222]

get labour out let the tories build our econemy back up for labour to sell again.