As en ex-squaddie and someone who was opposed to the Iraq war from the outset, I am pleased that Gordon Brown has today announced the Government’s plans to pull British troops out of the country from next spring.
However, unfortunately it’s difficult not to question his true motives in, first, taking this decision and, secondly, making this public now.
Grabbing the headlines will, as ever, be at the top of the list.
But could his move be even more calculated than this?
Could he be clearing the decks for a General Election early in 2009, perhaps in February/March?
By shutting down the Iraq war as a campaign issue, he has set up the potential for an election that would effectively be a referendum on who is best to run the economy.
Gordon Brown with his “grand plan” which, in his own misguided view, has already saved the world? Or the “do nothing Tories,” as the Prime Minister and his grovelling acolytes have tried to label the Conservatives.
The longer Gordon Brown waits, the more the economy will deteriorate and the more people will realise that his “grand plan” is hugely flawed and almost certainly crippling for this country for many years to come.
This suggests it is therefore in his best interests to go early.
No doubt, our forever indecisive Prime Minister will not yet have made up his mind.
But, from the point of view of my own General Election campaign, I’ll be ready when he is.
However, unfortunately it’s difficult not to question his true motives in, first, taking this decision and, secondly, making this public now.
Grabbing the headlines will, as ever, be at the top of the list.
But could his move be even more calculated than this?
Could he be clearing the decks for a General Election early in 2009, perhaps in February/March?
By shutting down the Iraq war as a campaign issue, he has set up the potential for an election that would effectively be a referendum on who is best to run the economy.
Gordon Brown with his “grand plan” which, in his own misguided view, has already saved the world? Or the “do nothing Tories,” as the Prime Minister and his grovelling acolytes have tried to label the Conservatives.
The longer Gordon Brown waits, the more the economy will deteriorate and the more people will realise that his “grand plan” is hugely flawed and almost certainly crippling for this country for many years to come.
This suggests it is therefore in his best interests to go early.
No doubt, our forever indecisive Prime Minister will not yet have made up his mind.
But, from the point of view of my own General Election campaign, I’ll be ready when he is.
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