For Gordon Brown the game is almost up. Not just beaten but annihilated in Crewe and Nantwich, the Tories six thousand votes up and winning on a swing of 17.6%. This is not, as the desperate Steve McCabe would like to believe, "a classic mid-term by-election". This is the moment the Conservatives began to look like a government in waiting.
Where did it all go wrong? The election that wasn't? Dithering over Northern Rock? Abolishing the 10p tax band (robbing the poor to pay for the rich)? Or is it just that the dour Scotsman is not very easy to like?
Brown's fast becoming the Ray Harford of British politics: a dull-as-ditchwater number two who just doesn't cut it as the front man. Labour is lost. About the only question left is, should anyone really care?
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in a political Britain where politics have become increasingly presidential and where there is little to choose between the parties by way of policies, Brown is simply not a vote winner; as someone said recently that they could imagine having an ordinary conversation with Cameron, but not with Brown. Even if the Tories win next time we will still be saddled with ever increasing food and fuel bills because of world demand for finite and / or diminishing commodites and resources. Time for us all to get used to having less and to share what there is with the increasing numbers of people around the world who can now afford what we are used to and who will compete for them, and push the price up. Simple Keynsian supply and demand economics about which our politicians of all parties can do little about.
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