Decimation’s Too Good For Them
It should come as no surprise that the following prospect fills me with glee:
While the Foreign Secretary would survive the rout, his power base would be decimated, making it much harder for him to get elected in a party likely to have shifted to the left: cabinet allies James Purnell and John Hutton would have gone, along with senior Blairites Alan Milburn and Charles Clarke. Jacqui Smith, Ruth Kelly, John Denham, Des Browne, Geoff Hoon and Jack Straw are projected to lose their seats. In Scotland, the poll predicts the SNP will win next month’s Glenrothes by-election.
Good.
Does this blue tide fill me with dread? Yes. If it purges the party of this right-wing clogging shall it be worth it? Yes. Do Charles Clarke’s squirms as he comes to realise his fate of losing to a real left-winger please me? Yes. Do I still have faith in the “Miliband as Messiah” model? Yes. Can even Alan Sugar save Gordon Brown now? No.