I heard Brown on the Today Programme this morning and he certainly did not sound like a man who is about to get dislodged from power. He had a fine grasp of the statistics of the matter and was convincing in his responses throughout. It strikes me that his voice is one that I have heard barely at all over the past year, although perhaps this is a consequence of my television viewing dropping to virtually nil and being replaced by broadband over-indulgence.

Regardless, I doubt that this affair shall see him removed from power.

On a rather nastier note I find myself not minding all that much if it did, just so long as he was replaced by someone who was firstly not a Blairite that would be equally bad and second someone who could win. Whether there is actually a candidate within the Labour Party who fulfills both criteria, or for that matter any who fulfill the latter, remains to be seen.

Much the same is true of his intention to re-grade cannabis a Class B despite the findings of the report that was performed upon the matter {witness also the pomposity of Brian Paddick who stated that he himself had been against the idea due to the confusion and said that at the time, as if that were the last word on the matter} which rather begs the question of why they bothered conducting it in the first place. Or for his plans to increase the time of detention to 42 days while not seeming concerned with our continued presence in Iraq, the action which the bombers on 7/7 said motivated them.

I am aware that for him to lose the votes on these issues would almost certainly be seen as him not being in control of his party {although I fail to see why this would be a truly bad thing} and that it would endanger the Labour Party severely before the next election {here I can} but I don’t really care. I can’t muster much support up for the man since, although I always held a fondness for him, for as long as he persists in doing stupid things that have no real cause and even the Conservative Party have abandoned as idiocy {identity cards, which he at least had the decency to de facto shelve} he doesn’t really seem to be worth the effort. I only feel pity for him in the same way that I would someone who stuck their hand in the fire. It didn’t belong their anyway, they should not have tried to do something so foolish.

Presumably these are sacrifices to the Daily Mail but I can’t quite grasp how these policies are anywhere near worth the damage they will cause him.

Perhaps I should have heeded the comments of my far-left comrades. Although he was “Only” in charge of the economy to a Marxist the economy is everything and the fact that he displeased them there was enough to show him to be utterly displeasing overall. Unlike with the liberals letting gay people civilly partner each other is insufficient. He funded the Iraq War, he oversaw the creation of the bastard mule hybrid PFIs and he traded the social democracy that was Labour’s legacy for the liberalism Thatcher bequeathed him.

Certainly I have no great love for such a reductionist view of the world, but although I can not agree with quite how virulent their view of the man is I must admit that they were closer to being right than I.