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Since I never intended for this blog to be all about climate change, I decided to post my current thoughts about the leadership troubles facing the Labour party at the current time.
The first question people keep asking is “should Brown be PM?” My initial answer is “don’t care, none of the potentials is any better or worse, none will bring about the fundamental change we need, so it doesn’t matter.” However, if I were to attack the question assuming I care about the well-being of the Labour party and want them to have a future, this would be my answer:
Yes, Brown should be PM until the next election. There is no point in getting a new guy in to take the mauling that the Labour party will be handed at the next election. There is no point in wasting a potential leader by having their credibility ruined by the defeat Labour is certain to suffer at the next elections.
Are Labour certain to lose? Yes. They have been in power for over a decade. They can’t blame any of the problems they are facing on the other guys and they can’t tell the truth, that the problems are so outside of their control that it gives them nightmares. The problems they are currently facing – increased petrol prices, increased household energy prices, increased costs to insurance companies of natural disasters, crazy economic conditions – are not within the control of our government, they are world problems which the whole planet must combat and isn’t.
So, Brown should captain the sinking ship. He should do his best and then hand over to fresh blood after the defeat so that the Conservatives can show the problems aren’t to do with which colour party is in power, but to do with the changes going on world-wide. Then Labour might have a chance of securing a win after only one term out of power.
