“Well, It Had To Come, Didn’t It…?”

Well, it did, didn’t it?  Ever since Tony Blair resigned from New Labour – having been constantly nudged by Gordon Brown – the party has been in a state of flux and it was inevitable that some kind of collapse was on the cards.

 ”New” Labour was Tony’s creation, not a bad one considering that when he took over, the Labour Party was unelectable.  And the “new” political philosophy did rather appeal to the middle classes after the shambolic, break–down efforts of the collapsing Conservative machine, after Thatcher was booted out – especially since Tony set-to with his Labour love affair with British Business, and privatisation.

He did this, even though Thatcher’s wholesale transfer of our national assets such as Water, Gas, Electricity, British Steel, etc, etc, etc, were eventually transferred into greedy, grasping  private hands, which lost no time in raising prices that were invested fast into private pockets .  And Tony left them there…

 Later, improvements to our erstwhile national assets’ superstructure during Tony’s reign, had to be paid for by even higher prices.  I should have suspected something when, during his first week as Prime Minister, Tony invited Thatcher  around to Number 10…

However, ten years later, Gordon takes over.  Gone was the cheerful, toothy grin of Tony Blair’s presence on the political stage.  In its place we received Gordon Brown’s dour, sombre, “too busy for pleasantries” countenance. 

From the beginning, it is a fact that Gordon had not the aura of a Prime Minister.  Gordon Brown was a brilliant Chancellor who, for the sake of the Party,  should have been Tony’s, supportive, stalwart buddy.  But there was that  constant, nagging belief that he should have been chosen as the PM ten years earlier, not Tony.

Well, Gordon finally made it and moved into No.10.  But Gordon couldn’t take Tony’s place as the showman, the popular presence on the political stage…

And so it has been proved. Now, today, after the three-week debacle of MP’s expenses being exposed, comes the test of New Labour’s “popularity” – the European and County Council Elections…

The British public have very short memories and - in spite of the Thatcher years, and the Major years, and the Hague years, and all the other short-lived Conservative Leader years – I garauntee there will be a Conservative landslide all over the country.  I believe it will be exactly the same come the General Election…

Then listen to the howls of anguish from protest and floating voters who had decided that “Labour needs a lesson…”

And – believe you me – the howls will come as Tory “cut this” and “cut that” merchants go to work…

Ah, well…