In today's Sunday Times
Have been reading today's Sunday papers with interest. Until now, while I have said to my campaign team that we have to be ready for the possibility of an election at any stage from this autumn to Spring 2010, I regarded the latter date as by far the most likely.
I still think this, but the odds are shifting. The possibility that Labour might remove Gordon Brown and call an earlier election, possibly this autumn, more likely in Spring, cannot entirely be discounted. If GB had been a Conservative Prime minister he would probably have had to either seek a vote of confidence on his own initiative, as John Major did in the 90's, or he would have faced a challenge. No Conservative leader could survive a combination of blows like the local elections, the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, and the Glasgow East by-election without seeking a fresh mandate or being deposed. Of course, each party is different ...
Mixed in with the serious analysis there is the usual crop of humour, and I did like this line from "Atticus" (Roland White) in the Sunday Times.
"Gordon Brown told guests at a Downing Street reception last week that he hopes to swap his official car for an electric model. That would make sense. He could use the same adaptor he plus in to charge up Alistair Darling each morning."
I still think this, but the odds are shifting. The possibility that Labour might remove Gordon Brown and call an earlier election, possibly this autumn, more likely in Spring, cannot entirely be discounted. If GB had been a Conservative Prime minister he would probably have had to either seek a vote of confidence on his own initiative, as John Major did in the 90's, or he would have faced a challenge. No Conservative leader could survive a combination of blows like the local elections, the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, and the Glasgow East by-election without seeking a fresh mandate or being deposed. Of course, each party is different ...
Mixed in with the serious analysis there is the usual crop of humour, and I did like this line from "Atticus" (Roland White) in the Sunday Times.
"Gordon Brown told guests at a Downing Street reception last week that he hopes to swap his official car for an electric model. That would make sense. He could use the same adaptor he plus in to charge up Alistair Darling each morning."
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