No to a general election this year
So - lovely, lovely Nick Robinson, a journalist who I only hold in the highest esteem you know (!) - is saying the general election is off. Looks like Gordon Brown wimped out in the end!
Tony Blair must be in seventh heaven - to see Gordon brought so low! And to be frank - I wouldn't blame him. Gordon has made a right pig's ear of the whole business - toying with us the electorate, flattered by polls, cynically using Maggie, Iraq and his big tent appointees to big himself up.
Tony Blair - with whom I disagreed fundamentally on major issues - at least had the balls to take the flak. Gordon Brown, keeping head below, parapet just let Blair take all the flak and brooded in the background resentful of their relative positions.
It's good for Gordon to get a dose of leadership reality. It's hard. It can be extraordinarily humiliating. It's quite different to how all these boys it will turn out - and that goes for Brown, Cameron and Campbell. But I have always felt that Brown sneered silently at Blair's leadership. Well - what goes around comes around.
Blair's moment of revenge - I think!
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Gordon bottled it, we all know he did.
:-)