Brown Caves
Unlike most {all, in the case of the right} I see a deviation from the former stubborness of the Labour Party to be a positve thing. It does show that the Parliamentary Labour Party could easily have destroyed their leadership but for concessions but in who’s view is this actually a bad thing? That Brown acknowledged the error of his ways was pleasing and potentially election-saving for the party, although that he has not learnt his lesson enough to refrain from continuing to push the dangerous illiberal plans for 42-day detention is unsettling and a true pity.
With any luck that intention will fade and this will be added to the long list of raised and then dropped New Labour legislative suggestions, but somehow I doubt it. For now let us enjoy the victory of party over leadership and hope that this averts political triumph of the right. They were apparently jubiliant yesterday but they were denied the grand scalp of a Commons defeat. More than can be said for Blair, at least.
For now.
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