As Gordon Brown has secured the Labour party leadership he is guaranteed to be our next Prime Minister. This is no great surprise. For thirteen years we have expected Mr Brown to succeed Tony Blair, despite the Prime Minister’s constant attempts to try and block Brown’s succession.
The question now is why do we have to wait for six weeks before Mr Brown becomes PM? For a couple of years now, and especially since the Labour party conference last year, we have had to put up with a lame duck Prime Minister. The government is drifting along aimlessly just to satisfy one man’s vanity. Mr Blair got his wish of passing his tenth anniversary in office (and two days later the voters gave him a good kicking in the polls). But still he is hanging on. Today he is in Washington for a last meeting with President Bush, and then there will be an EU meeting and a G8 summit. These are important meetings, at which this country should be represented not by a lame duck, but rather by the man who will be leading us for the next couple of years.
Go away now Mr Blair, your time is up.
The question now is why do we have to wait for six weeks before Mr Brown becomes PM? For a couple of years now, and especially since the Labour party conference last year, we have had to put up with a lame duck Prime Minister. The government is drifting along aimlessly just to satisfy one man’s vanity. Mr Blair got his wish of passing his tenth anniversary in office (and two days later the voters gave him a good kicking in the polls). But still he is hanging on. Today he is in Washington for a last meeting with President Bush, and then there will be an EU meeting and a G8 summit. These are important meetings, at which this country should be represented not by a lame duck, but rather by the man who will be leading us for the next couple of years.
Go away now Mr Blair, your time is up.
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