Lord Desai, Half Right about Labour.

Lord Desai came out today and said what we are all probably thinking about unelected PM Gordon Brown. That he is indecisive and weak. However he got the next bit wrong because he claimed that Gordon was put on earth to remind us how good Blair was and this is where I started to get angry.

I want to make it perfectly clear from here that I think and have always thought that the whole New Labour exercise was nothing more than a re-branding exercise backed up with good, almost genius manipulation of the media and NOTHING MORE. They have not improved our lives since they have been in power. They have also lied about all sorts of things (least of all the reasons for going to war). The guys at the top are all involved in political corruption through cash for honours and Saudi warplanes. We have been told repeatedly that Britain is recession proof, that crime is lower, immigration is great and that hospitals are fantastic because of all the money that has been poured into the NHS black hole. But the thing to remember is that it is not entirely Gordon Brown's fault.

Yes he was there. Yes he stood shoulder to shoulder with Blair throughout and made wild statements that we were supposed to believe without question, but he was working for Blair. Blair was in charge of the country for 10 years and the state of things must fall firmly on Blair's shoulders, not Brown's. Contrary to what Lord Desai says about Brown, I actually think more correctly that Gordon Brown was put on earth to remind us of just how bad Mr. Blair was and how hollow his 10 years in power actually were.

It was also suggested by Desai that Brown's successor should be the current foreign secretary David Milliband. Now this I agree with. Being a supporter of the other side, I think that the choice has to be absolutely the best from the conservative party point of view too. Blair was a smug super confident man who could oil his way through anything and appear half credible to the type of people who voted for him. Milliband is also unbelievably smug too and Lord Desai is probably thinking that Milliband is another Blair. However, I don't think that I have spoken to a labour supporter and I have spoken to a few, who is not reviled by Milliband. In fact most people seem to positively dislike him citing his inability to be sincere about anything together with his smugness as the main reason for their dislike. At least with Blair, he seemed to care about things even if it did all turn out to be a great acting performance from a man who actually cares for nothing but his own political advancement and personal "legacy".

Anyway, I actually started to smile at the end after I found myself defending Gordon Brown for some strange reason. I think defending Gordon Brown would be a bit like defending Goering at Nuremberg. Fact is Brown was at the top of Blair's government and has been a major contributing player in the utter incompetence that has been running this country since Labour got into power. Brown has been left holding the bag though and it is natural that he will look like the villain, after all Blair jumped ship before we started to discover the sticky tape that is holding this Labour government and its actions for the last ten years precariously in place.

If Labour loses badly in the local elections and loses London, I think that Lord Desai is right, Labour will start to panic and I think that people like him are going to start it. I think that this is exactly what we saw from the conservative party after they lost to labour originally and until quite recently, panic and disorganisation caused by a great deal of back and front stabbing from factions within the party. The result of this "panic" is political loss and humiliation" so I think that I am quite confident that we are going to see a good spanking at the next general election. Ah, revenge will be so sweet and I will look forward to another ten year stint by a conservative government until they screw things up and whilst New Labour send Milliband to Hollywood or at least the local drama school to learn how to act with the sincerity that got Blair into power (it'll take him a while unfortunately). Once He learns to say "look" a lot and use his hands and gesticulate in a more forceful way, he will be in a position to lie properly to the country and convince them that he is the man for the job.