bloggers4labour.org
Jul 25, 2008
There could not be a clearer message to get rid of Brown than losing a seat where last time we got over 60% of the vote. Yet still, Labour MPs are in denial. I don't know what grip Brown has over them - Brown has the staying power of a Kremlin leader. Short of Brown losing his own safe seat in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Labour vote share less than Glasgow East) - something that is now looking increasingly possible in the massacre that faces Labour in 2010, yet MPs continue to refuse to listen and depose him as leader. 'Come back Blair, all is forgiven' now sounds a plausible cry.Surely, this latest defeat will shake them to their senses. If not Labour will be crushed in 2010 and it will be their fault - MPs fault NOT the membership who they refuse to listen to. GIVE US OUR SAY! Without a democracy in the party, how can we...
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