Labour Party Gets a Good Bashing - From Within

Peter Hain was on the news over the weekend saying that more of New Labour would loose the Labour Party the next election in what appears to be a bit of "I told you so"ism before the event. This publicity stunt I think is a display of his willingness to throw his hat in the ring again when it comes to party leadership election time after the generals whenever they come (presuming of course that Brown doesn't do a Chavez in the dark). Not that I don't think that Hain would make a good Labour Party leader, he does have an admirable pedigree but I cannot understand why anyone with any political savvy would want to take the helm after Brown.

This move definitely marks the start of the public implosion of the New Labour movement as it will begin to tear itself apart in lieu of certain failure at the next general election. It happened to the Conservative party during Major's term and it took them 3 leaders and ten years after loosing power to rebuild a veneer of cohesion. What the older wiser guys should really be thinking of doing is letting someone like Milliband take the reigns, screw it up and decapitate himself politically before they step in and reunite the party with traditional values, which after two terms of Conservative reign, the UK will probably be ready for again.

It will be interesting to watch and measure the degree to which they will destroy themselves though. Harman already looks like she's already on a leadership campaign as well and I wonder what Straw, Mandelson and others will be up to behind the scenes. One thing I can say is that it's going to be an awful lot better than Saturday night TV, that's for sure!!!