Re: The UK General Election Thread

by Allan D on Thu 29 Apr 2010, 20:45

GB had an increasingly haunted look last night as he banged on unconvincingly with his talking points in a bid to persuade voters that withdrawing child tax credits from those earning £50,000+ would somehow contribute to child poverty (at one point he even bizarrely said, although this was not picked up by the other two, obsessed with their own talking points, that "child tax credits are paid to children", err, no, Gordon, they're paid to parents). He looked like a wounded stag knowing its days are numbered and his closing statement began to sound more like a concession speech with "but it's your choice" followed by his creepy rictus grin.

He knows that the ordure will fall on him in the post-election introspection within the Labour Party and he has, indeed, brought himself and his party to this point through his personal flaws, his inability to connect with the electorate, his rivalry with Blair which limited much of what Labour might have achieved but above all his overweening pride and vaulting ambition.

Last night we saw Macbeth watching Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane with Malcolm and Macduff beside him. However the Labour Party was not blameless either as it levered out Blair and gave Broon an unopposed succession and chose not to act in the frequent opportunities that presented themselves to remove him after it was abundantly clear he had become an electoral liability. The Labour Cabinet have behaved towards Broon in much the same way as the Wehrmacht High Command did towards Hitler after 1941, knowing they were being led to disaster but substituting a cringing compliance instead of overt resistance.

After last night's debate one thing, at least, is certain, that Clegg could not sustain Brown, or even Labour generally, in power without risking electoral suicide and all the gains the Lib Dems have made in the campaign so far. The likeliest outcomes seem to be either a narrow Conservative majority or a Conservative minority government.

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