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Gordon Brown Still Has A Chance To Avoid A Meltdown At The Next General Election

November 16, 2009

Tony Blair 5 Adam Lovejoy writes: So, is there any chance for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to avoid a humiliating defeat at the next general election, which, as our sources have told us, will take place in mid May next year? The answer would be ‘no’. Mr Brown has inherited so many problems from his predecessor, Tony Blair, and then made things even worse, that he has become as unpopular in Britain as an idea of introducing Prohibition would have been in Scotland. The question now is how bad Labour party losses will be and whether it can actually recover at all.

However, Mr Brown does have a way to avoid a total meltdown at the next election, resembling the disastrous performance of the Conservatives in 1997. In involves setting up Mr Blair and forcing him to take the rap for the illegal war in Iraq. Yes, you heard me right: making Blair pay for dragging the nation into the war on false pretences would do wonders for Mr Brown.

Despite all the praise that is still showered on Blair, he is deeply despised by many people in Britain, and across the world generally. I would even go as far as saying that he was already deeply unpopular as long ago as 2000. No wonder that a joke about him at the time said that if he wanted to step down while still being popular he missed his chance back in 1997. It was all thanks to the BBC propaganda that this chancer and opportunist managed to fool some people into believing that he was some sort of great communicator. But many saw through him and were not impressed by his gimmicks and stunts. That was why the cunning Ken Livingstone, who fought his first election for London Mayor in 2000, played an anti-Blair card and as a result won with a large majority. Livingstone’s victory was a huge give-away of Blair’s unpopularity, but once again the BBC propaganda machine kept his so-called popularity afloat.

So that is what Mr Brown should do. He should arrange for Blair to give evidence to the independent inquiry into the war in Iraq and see to it that he goes down by releasing the information about the circumstances that led to the war. The possibility of a criminal prosecution, even if it only remains a possibility, would be music to the ears of many British people. Not to mention that they would welcome the idea of holding to account Blair’s henchman, Alistair Campbell, another key player in ‘sexing up’ the documents that argued in favour of the war in Iraq.

I am not saying that this development would save Prime Minister Brown from losing the election. But at least he would be seen as punishing Blair and avoiding a total meltdown of his party at the polls next year.

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3 Responses to “Gordon Brown Still Has A Chance To Avoid A Meltdown At The Next General Election”

  1. Neil Ashton on November 16th, 2009 6:37 pm

    I agree with the articles main points although I think David Camerons failure this past week over the European referendum saga has played right into Gordon Brown’s hands. With the conservatives looking divided and indecisive, Labour has the chance to win back key voters as was demonstrated in the Glasgow by-election this week.

  2. Stan on November 17th, 2009 8:21 pm

    So Tony Blair is deeply despised by the British people is he? How is it then that that a YouGov poll taken last year showed that the only man who could improve Labour’s ratings was…………………………..Tony Blair? At Labour’s lowest ebb he improved Labour’s vote from 25% to 32%. In a more recent poll 49% of Labour voters preferred Blair to be leading the government than Gordon Brown. And even when Labour’s poll ratings are still low and the media are rubbishing him at every opportunity, 37% wanted to see Blair as EU President. If that’s a mark of being deeply despised then the figures for being moderately popular must be right off the scale.

  3. BlairSupporter on November 17th, 2009 9:27 pm

    Are you as crazy as you sound?

    “In involves setting up Mr Blair and forcing him to take the rap for the illegal war in Iraq. Yes, you heard me right: making Blair pay for dragging the nation into the war on false pretences would do wonders for Mr Brown.”

    Setting up Mr Blair? Oh how honest! How principled! About as principled as your making out that you KNOW that Mr Blair took the country to war “on false pretences.”

    You and your like know NOTHING, ZILCH about the then PM’s reasons for going to war in Iraq.

    Put aside that the Iraq war in comparison to the other one, seems to be working in its objectives, you are regurgitating the lies of those with a political agenda spewn out by those who do not deserve to stand in Blair’s shadow.

    Brown, now in a position of power, now understands this all to well, even though he was mostly silent when it was harder to carry through. Blair seldom had Brown at his side supporting his position in public, though he obviously did in private, providing the necessary finance.

    Mr Blair WILL be giving evidence to the Iraq Inquiry inpublic. Not even THAT will satisfy such as you unless you find him guilty as charged.

    And, btw, how can Brown or anyone FORCE Blair to take the rap? Is this the stuff of teenage blogs? Are they going to hold a gun to his head?

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