Suddenly Gordon Brown is everywhere, while Keir Starmer has disappeared. Brown is preparing the ground for someone. But whether or not there will be a Labour Leadership Election next year depends on whether or not next May's local elections will ever be held. At least for the time being, Covid-19 may yet save the Labour Right from oblivion.
The Lisbon Treaty? Nothing on the Single European Act. The gold? You said nothing about that at the time, and in any case it is irrelevant now that almost everyone understands that this sovereign state has a free floating, fiat currency. No, if you want to have a go at Gordon Brown, and you should, then do it over the fact that he presided over the key years of the occupation of Helmand, which was all for nothing.
Now, how about that meeting between Boris Johnson and his MPs this evening? Johnson's link went down, Steve Baker offered to take over, Theresa May angrily retorted "No", and Michael Fabricant filled in the time by singing Rule, Britannia! Baker is clearly positioning to be the Right's candidate in next year's Conservative Leadership Election. And he does believe in the gold standard. Yes, really.
You are obsessed with leadership elections that are never going to happen. Neither main party is in a position where their leader is under threat for the foreseeable future.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes you think either Johnson or Starmer is under any sort of pressure? For all Johnson's failings you would have to be mental to want to take over from him during a pandemic.
You would have to be mental to want to be Prime Minister at all. But some people are.
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