What Can Gordo Do Now?
After today’s fresh disaster for Gordon Brown, with the resignation of a Minister of State, David Cairns, following on from a weekend of revolting Labour MPs , what can he do now?
As far as I can see, he has four main options:
1. Resign as PM as let the Labour Party try and sort itself out.
Somehow, I can’t see Mr. Control Freak relinquishing power so easily.
2. Struggle on, holding on to power and position by his finger-tips.
The worst possible outcome for Labour, the best for the Conservatives - and the most likely
3. Do a “John Major” and call the rebels bluff in a “back me or sack me” leadership election of the party.
But has he got the balls to try such a risky approach? It all comes down to whether David Miliband will do a “Portillo” or not…
4.Spill political blood with a Night of the Long Knives approach to make it clear that he will not accept rebellion.
The problem with this being: do they even know the rebels are? After all, this morning they were denying the David Cairns was going to resign!
But considering Gordo’s history, I doubt he’ll actually choose any approach, and rather decide to allude to all of the above and look even more of a ditherer and bottler than he does already.
Of course, another aspect to consider is whether or not the Labour party actually has the killer instinct to finish the job, or whether they’ll just dither themselves and leave a weakened Brown in place after a tumultuous Conference [which starts on Saturday].
What do you think Gordo can or will do now?
I reckon Gordo’s doing a lot of thinking and has come with a great new idea ,”I,m just getting on with the job”.
After all “People asked me to get on with the job”????……