May 2007 Archives

The mainstream media are full of 10 year retrospectives and endless interviews with Labour politicians, now that Tony Blair has at last actually announced that he will step down as Prime Minister on 27th June 2007.

Note how there is no mention of the various NuLabour sleaze scandals, "cash for honours" ,criminal investigation or the destruction of our civil liberties and freedoms etc. in any of the TV soundbite roundups of Blair's 10 years in power.

Will we have to suffer this saturation coverage all over again on the 27th of June as well ?

Tomorrow, no doubt, they will be full of Gordon Brown's media spin, as he officially starts his "coronation" procession to power at Number 10 Downing Street.

What bad news will the NuLabour spin doctors and apparatchiki on say the home Office or the new Ministry of Justice or the Treasury have smuggled out during today's "good day to bury bad news" ?

Do the electoral defeats for the Labour Party in the elections last Thursday mean that the "New Labour project" is now over ?

Incredibly,Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and now Home Secretary John Reid are still in their positions of power, as lame duck Ministers, awaiting the actual announcement of the date of the date when Tony Blair steps down as Prime Ministers, when they too gave said they will also resign.

Everyone now assumes that Gordon Brown will become Prime Minister, without any actual electoral mandate from the general public, and, apparently, without even a serious challenge from within the Labour party.

Does anyone know exactly what he stands for, and how he will be any different from Tony Blair ?

No doubt he will attempt to cling on to power right until the last moment in May 2010, the latest possible date for a General Election, at which point we fervently hope he will be kicked out of office.

It is hard to see what Gordon Brown's new Cabinet might look like, since there is such a dearth of actual talent amongst Labour MPs, that any re-shuffling of deckchairs on the Titanic, will be greeted with contempt by the public.

The labels "Brownite" and "Blairite" amongst the ranks of Ministers and their Special Advisers and spin doctors, seem so meaningless - they are all Labour politicians and, for the most part, all seem to exhibit Orwellian doublethink i.e. "the act of holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously, fervently believing both.".

Who will replace Gordon Brown as Chancellor ? The candidates he appears to have been grooming over the years seem to be Alastair Darling and Ed Balls.

Almost anyone (with the obvious exceptions of David Blunkett and Charles Clarke) must be better than John Reid as Home Secretary, in charge of the rump of the Home Office the new "Ministry of Injustice".

Will former Home Office Minister and current chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, John Denham be brought in to this role ? He at least is familiar with the ongoing problems of the Home Office.

Or will former Home Secretary Jack Straw come back from the wilderness of Leader of the Commons, to this role, due to his loyal sycophancy in running Brown's "coronation" campaign ?

As to other Cabinet positions, who knows ? Will Brown purge all the alleged "Blairites" and bring in some fresh faces from the dubious ranks of the Labour backbenches ?

Presumably blogging MP Tom Watson will get some sort of Junior Ministerial reward for his efforts in helping to call for Blair's resignation.

No doubt the alleged rising star, David Miliband will be kept in the Cabinet, but given some poisoned chalice position, to weaken any possible post 2010 election challenge to Gordon Brown.

Until the new Cabinet is announced, the next 2 or 3 months will mean the complete paralysis of the UK Government regarding public policy decisions, which might affect Ministers' and top Civil Servants' old or new empires and power bases.