I hope you had a relaxing Christmas and have since got off to a positive start in this New Year.
Someone who clearly hasn’t got off to a good beginning is Gordon Brown who has begun 2010 in much the same way as he spent large parts of 2009 – dealing with yet another crisis over his leadership.
I was as surprised as everyone when I first heard that previously loyal ex-Labour Ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt had plunged the knife into their long-time Cabinet colleague in the expectation that several members of the current top team would do the same.
But, like Gordon Brown himself and the General Election that never was in 2007, they bottled it.
Be in no doubt - this is a Labour Government in total meltdown. There has to be an election by June of this year – even Gordon Brown can’t get out of that one. And many Labour MPs are fearful over their own futures.
Indeed, self-preservation is clearly much higher up the personal agendas of Labour MPs than the problems faced by the people they claim to represent such as the economy, jobs, the NHS and schools – not to mention the difficulties faced by our troops in Afghanistan.
Political opponents of this dying Government, such as me, can chuckle at the damage Labour Ministers and MPs do to each other on what now seems to be a daily basis.
But I can assure you that it brings me no pleasure whatsoever when the damage being inflicted is to our country and, more specifically, to local residents in Keighley and Ilkley.
The sooner we have that General Election, the better it will be for us all.
Someone who clearly hasn’t got off to a good beginning is Gordon Brown who has begun 2010 in much the same way as he spent large parts of 2009 – dealing with yet another crisis over his leadership.
I was as surprised as everyone when I first heard that previously loyal ex-Labour Ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt had plunged the knife into their long-time Cabinet colleague in the expectation that several members of the current top team would do the same.
But, like Gordon Brown himself and the General Election that never was in 2007, they bottled it.
Be in no doubt - this is a Labour Government in total meltdown. There has to be an election by June of this year – even Gordon Brown can’t get out of that one. And many Labour MPs are fearful over their own futures.
Indeed, self-preservation is clearly much higher up the personal agendas of Labour MPs than the problems faced by the people they claim to represent such as the economy, jobs, the NHS and schools – not to mention the difficulties faced by our troops in Afghanistan.
Political opponents of this dying Government, such as me, can chuckle at the damage Labour Ministers and MPs do to each other on what now seems to be a daily basis.
But I can assure you that it brings me no pleasure whatsoever when the damage being inflicted is to our country and, more specifically, to local residents in Keighley and Ilkley.
The sooner we have that General Election, the better it will be for us all.
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