Time for the undead to depart
Martin Ivens in The Sunday Times takes out his cudgel and proceeds to lay about the UK Labour Cabinet and party with gusto:-
This government is neither dead nor alive: like Count Dracula it is undead. It exists for no other purpose than Brown’s survival. It would be comical if only the condition of the country were not so serious. The recession may have done its worst but the state’s debt crisis is just beginning. Only a strong government can take the unpopular measures required to curb public spending.
You might be forgiven for forgetting we are fighting a war, too. Are they cowering in the caves of Af-Pak at the elevation of anonymous Bob Ainsworth to defence secretary, the sixth bearer of that title under Labour? Never mind – we have Alan Sugar as the new enterprise champion to sweeten the pill. Had someone proposed such a crass way to relaunch a business on his show, Sugar would have barked: “Prime Minister, you’re fired.”
This is “the creation of a new government”, claims Lord Mandelson, tongue boring a hole through his cheek. If the appointment of Glenys Kinnock to the Europe ministry is “fresh”, then expect the appointment to office any day soon of Ida, the 65m-year-old “missing link”.
The rest of the article has more of the same ilk. read and enjoy, but feel sorry for the Brits suffering under the incompetent Gordon and his cohorts of placemen and women.
The shades of former Labour stalwarts, of Gaitskell, John Smith Healey, Callaghan, Bevin, Atlee and Morrison must be writhing with discomfort in their graves at the sorry pass that Blair and Brown have brought the UK and the Labour Party to.
It is time for the undead to depart.
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