Posted on 12/02/2007 3:52:24 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
...The latest scandal developed, inconveniently for the Prime Minister, at a time when his five-month-old administration was already reeling from a series of crises. The weeks since Mr Brown's last-minute decision, on October 5, not to call a November general election, have seen one of the most spectacular political falls from grace ever recorded.
...and despite Mr Brown's desperate attempt to regain the initiative yesterday with his speech on party funding to Labour's National Policy Forum, the inevitable conclusion is that Donorgate has done serious, lasting damage to his premiership. His, and Labour's, greatest fear is that further damaging disclosures lie just around the corner.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Just the headline warms my heart....thanks for the post.
It couldn’t have happened to a more left-wing guy who repels me.
Tony Blair was a pussy cat compared to him, but no super saint.
He cuts, he runs from Iraq but he can’t hide forever.
Best wishes for his early demise and the rise of the CINO’s led by David Cameron.
May it so be.
Sounds good. Sure wish MadIvan would drop in and explain things!
At least there’s a little good news today...
bookmark with Daily Mail article
I don't know what may come of it but it certainly looks like you got your wish. :=)
If I remember correctly, the same thing happened in Canada when Jean Chretian resigned and Paul Martin took his place.
now if only the Conservatives were actually conservative
“Isn’t this how things normally work in a parliamentary system? The incumbent long-running PM gets out before the excrement hits the fan... then he appoints either some expendable MP, or a political adversary (as was the case with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown) to take the heat and go down in flames.”
Not traditionally the way it works in the UK. Nor, in any of our political parties, do outgoing leaders get to appoint their successor.
In a parliamentary system, technically, the causus of the majority party picks their leader. They tend to pick the guy who they think will help them maintain their power.
Labour elected their leader, which is pretty standard practice. Brown, like Martin, had been biding his time for what must have seemed like an eternity just waiting for his more popular predecessor to hit the road. I also suspect Brown, like Martin, won’t last very long.
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