The NIGHTMARE of the BROWN Years!

BBC Radio 4: Has started an excellent three part documentary on the Brown Years. The first instalment showed how events had a way of pushing Brown off Agenda, from natural floods to terrorism. That the Election of 2007 that never was pushed Brown off a cliff with the voters and how Brown never came back in to favour. In many respects the main enemy of Brown was time, he had waited to long, what ever new ideas he might have had could not fit in with events or the fact that time has passed them by during the Blair years. Excellent 1st Part, Click Here:

No Election in 2007 COST US the Election in 2010 - former Labour Chancellor

New Statesman: Reports on comments by the last Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, Mr Darling stated that when Gordon Brown failed to call an election in 2007 he really hurt Labour's chances of winning in 2010. The decision by Gordon Brown not to call an election in 2007 was an example of Gordon Brown at his worse, he didn't stand against Tony Blair in 1994, he caused havoc in Government by blocking the public sector reforms of Tony Blair, he pushed out Blair in 2007 with his constant coup attempts, then he made sure that when he become leader there was no contest, he wanted the Crown but didn't want to fight for it, the chance of going early and losing was to much for Brown thus his bottling of the election. The real black mark against Tony Blair is that he left the UK with Gordon Brown, that is worse that Iraq folks.

The Dark Prince ( Lord Mandelson ) vs. the Brown Camp

The Sunday Telegraph: The bitter feuds of the Blair/Brown years has come back to haunt the Labour Party with the publication of autobiography of Lord Peter Mandelson. The Dark Prince can forget getting an job in another Labour Government, in the Labour mind the Coalition Government is on the back foot and this book only brings back the bad days of the political cancer at the heart of New Labour, the political feud between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. The destructive relationship was political lethal for Labour, for over ten years of Tony Blair in 10 Downing Street you had the open and covert warfare between Blair and Brown and their allies. By the time Tony Blair was pushed out in 2007 by the Brown Camp had become a spent political force, in his turn Gordon Brown faced numerous coup attempts, the defence for Brown was Lord Mandelson, without Mandelson Brown would have been toast a lot sooner. What is new is the fact that Lord Mandelson could see that Labour was going to lose and was looking to parachute out of Labour back in to Europe, this seems to have opened up the old wounds, thus the lousy Labour Campaign of 2010. Lord Mandelson can expect a lot more arrows in his direction from Labour, Tony Blair in some respects must be laughing his head off, Labour was only a major political force when he was leader, after he left Labour returned to its losing form.

The Feud that would NEVER Die !

Telegraph: Reports on comments by the former Labour Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, Lord Mandelson states that the former Labour PM Tony Blair had to do battle with his Chancellor and future successor Gordon Brown from the moment Mr Brown made way for Tony Blair to be elected leader to his departure in 2007. This is not breaking news, the Alastair Campbell Diaries show a brooding Gordon Brow, also the constant view that Lord Mandelson was up to something and how Tony Blair had to deal with these over the top egos. One at times feels sorry for Tony Blair, why he didn’t sack Gordon Brown in 2005 after the General Election is the one issue that remains a mystery in till the next book by Mr Campbell.