The Leader's inability to cope is highlighted by reports from senior allies of Brown that there is need for '.. a new 'go-to man,' a chief executive-type figure... that will free Gordon to concentrate only on the things that he should be concentrating on. The problem has been the flat structure. Below Gordon are about six people who all need to go to him about things. That really takes too much time, so a better filter is needed.'
Brown can continue to micro-manage the Labour party to maintain himself in power - that needs merely his particular and peculiar talents of grubbing like a half-blind mole through the dirt of fixing deals and remembering the minutiae of past compromises and sell-outs. What he has so publicly failed to cope with, is being the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and answering to the pledges on which his predecessor gained power, as well as dealing with other parts of the power elites which are not his to control. As he has sunk into wholesale incapacity and subsequent fury followed by depression, his capability even to control his claim to power - the zombie Labour party - has begun to slip from him.
'It was astonishing that no one close to Gordon was able to sort the Abrahams problem out earlier. And more importantly sound very loud alarm bells about the trouble that was being stored up. ', the Telegraph reports a senior Labour party figure remarking.
A shortlist that includes Wilf Stevenson, long-standing friend of the Leader, and director of the Smith Institute, which is currently being investigated by the Charities Commission for inappropriate activity (it has seemingly acted as a means of running a private office for Brown, making available large sums under guise of research funds, used 11 Downing Street for political meetings, and his henchmen have profited from sinecures there among other things) will be under consideration by Brown after Christmas.
The prospect is that the country will have an unelected Prime Minister, unable to cope, fronted by one of his 'old friends', whose charity Smith Institute is under investigation by the charities' controlling body, who is without even the democratic fig leaf of representing a small group of Scottish voters.
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I know we must be concerned for the implications for ourselves; but surely it'd only be human to feel sorry for Brown. It's a tragedy that what you have worked so hard for, and felt you deserved, should taste like ashes when you get it.
festive spirit almost stays my hand here Sackers; and I know what you mean, but ...
his oeuvre of 'hard work' includes such outrageous sins, of omission and commission, that I am afraid it douses my feeble flicker of sympathy
Tragedies are dynamic, S; it's that unfolding characteristic that requires this situation is resolved. I agree it is empathetically painful to watch but the response is a general election, with clear manifestos from the parties and clear choices, which must be made by us.
Consent to government in the form Brown wants is not there. It isn't there for Labour at all. Hence the crack-up. But the remedy isn't in an appointed minder to help in hanging on and ignoring the electorate's rejection. We want a vote, not a Gauleiter.
No sympathy from me, that's for sure. As it did with Thatcher, it seems to me that Brown is working out his vengeance for something nasty in his youth (being jet-propelled to Uni?) on the rest of us. Alderman Roberts for Maggie, Father of the Manse for Gorgon.
I do wich he would just GO.
But all the parties are for the EU. What's my choice?
Might the Conservatives present a manifesto offering a vote for in or out of the European Union, S, or at least for wholly renegotiated terms? It would be hard, should a vote ever be achieved again, if they did not.
There would have to be a developed post EU policy being put together now, I suppose, and I haven't seen signs of one, though William Hague's remarks in various speeches have been giving the impression that the EU is up for reconsideration by the Conservatives.
Labour will never, never give it up as it is currenty their only means of survival; though, obviously, in terms of modern politics and political parties, Labour is probably not salvageable under any circumstances, other than the use of brute force.
The EU is surprisingly lively in the new inner blocks it is forming as well, and Labour is being most inept in its lack of involement - surly lout Brown as usual harvesting the worst of all worlds.
Surely, as he is in his late fifties, whatever happened in his youth is irrelevant Elby?
At what age does blaming mummy and daddy cease? Or if it hasn't, do the rest of us feel distaste and turn away.
HG, I don't believe that being damaged in one's youth necessarily fades away as one gets older. Do we not all see a spectacularly dysfunctional social being there, for starters (bogie eating before the nation). Certainly I don't propose this as an excuse; and I would say I also know a few people of my age who I would keep away from "normal" society, that's for sure, and some of them well-positioned in society.
It seems only fair to everyone else to face up to upbringing and get over it Elby; let's hope our children don't hold us responsible for who and what they are.
It must have been quite a bad time with a son like Brown, pernicketing along being feelingless and unresponsive and constantly not understanding what others felt. Imagine the horridness of such a child,and other children being forced to put up with him because he was posh and neighbours had to be kept in with. There was one like him around in every childhood - we all know them on sight.
He can't manage and he should stand down, not have some unelected handholder and decision taker drafted in over our democratic system.
What a state - the Queen unable to retire because the heir is another one, and the Prime Minister having competence and emotional reality puppet-provided by goodness knows who.
Your comments about Brown as a child are plain wrong - even the biography by Tom Bower, who is hardly a fan, paint a totally different picture.
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There is some excuse for a person behaving as does the Leader because they are born like that, grow up uncorrected, and carry their obsessional, micro-managing non-neuro-typical characteristics into their adult lives - and in Brown's case, unfortunately into our lives - or he is doing it on purpose and has no excuse at all!
Either he is nnt or he is nasty.
Well, both, yes.
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