A January Plot

One of the more bizarre bits of political entertainment this week has been the Odd Plot to get rid of Gordon Brown. If there had been a Tory plot, it may have made some sense but this was one seems to have been devised entirely inside the Labour Party by Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt - with some background orchestration by Charles Clark. The wonderous Geoff tells us that he has been thinking of this idea of an internal referendum among MPs while eating his mince pies over Christmas. I think he must have had too much after dinner port. I find it amazing that Geoff Hoon is still here. Somehow he survived as a cabinet minister for ten years in spite of being singularly inept. He was the idiot who, as Defence Secretary, when we invaded Iraq, went on holiday. What kind of idiot is it that wants to unleash the Labour Party's leader electoral system to find some new charismatic leader 5 months before a general election? It seems that the man expected to rise up to be the new leader was to be David Milliband. I find this even more bizarre than the original idea of a plot against Brown. David Milliband has not been an impressive foreign secretary and he has the charisma of a dead cod fish. He always strikes me as a priggish, untrustworthy, second-rate public school prefect. What madness is it that makes anyone in the Labour Party think that this is the man to lead them into a new exciting future. He is a ditherer who makes Brown look the picture of decisive leadership. Indeed, the only man with any authority in the Labour Party is still Gordon Brown. All the rest of the cabinet seem pretty second-rate. The party is lumbered with the debris left behind by the deluded and demented Blair and I think that after they have lost the general election they will be in the wilderness for a very long time.

Mind you, I still have no confidence whatsoever in Call Me Dave Cameron and his Old Etonian Buddies.

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