Things continue to fall apart for the Labour government and we in the Boggart Network News office find ourselves feeling sorry for Gordon Brown. He only created the financial farrago but now he finds himself left to clean up the whole mess including The War, education, education, education, the failing NHS, chavs and blabbermouth Cherie’s embarrassing revelations about how she would go on the trawl in Piccadilly, offering strange men a tuppeny upright (find your own railings).
Our sympathy becomes muted however when veteran newshound Harry Hack (1936 – 2004) reminds us that Gordon Brown like to recall “wanting to be Prime Minister” since he was four. Harry then recounts the story of the restaurant meeting in which Brown agreed not to challenge Blair’s leadership bid in return for Blair’s promise that he would step down after a single term.
Clearly a man who at age four wanted to be Prime Minister but at forty-something was still gullible enough to believe a promise made by Blair is not fit for high office.
We are stuck with him now though we hear he is stuck on the horns of Cherie’s lovers a dilemma; will it be more damaging to lose the 42 day detention vote or the Crewe by-election.
We advise the Labour party greybeards give Brown an ultimatum. Win both or spend 42 days in Crewe.