Thursday, 5 June 2008

Miliband's ambitions unmasked as Labour gets Crewed


David Miliband could not hide his glee as an audience member on Question Time suggested that Labour may be rescued if he were to take over from Gordon Brown.
why anyone would think that this pale,robotic product of the new labour machine
could benefit the Left or the Labour party is beyond me.the polls have consistently shown that it has been Brown's mismanagement as PM and not Tory strategy that has caused the change in Tory fortunes.it seems that all the qualities that made Gordon
a good chancellor have conspired against him as Prime Minister.Take the 42 day detention for example.Brown would have used classic Game Theory to adopt his position.He thought he had created a win/win scenario for himself in which whatever way the vote went he would have personally looked tough on crime.Factor in the political element with the disastrous loss in Crewe and Nantwich and we are left with a sorry looking politician desperately looking for a win to reassert his authority.it's sad that in this process,the fundamental goalposts of liberty are having to be moved to score an own goal.Having got himself into a mess Brown has
reverted to his now all too familiar prevarication mode.Cruel irony then, that his latest attempt to deflect attention by focusing on knife crime should come at a time when the knives are out for him.