Socialsmo o Muerte
26th September 2005, 13:54
Did any of you listen to/watch Gordon Brown's speech at the Labour Party Conference earlier today? When suggestions about his taking over the Party began intensifying around the time of the last election, I began thinking maybe I could vote for him. He is, after all, regarded as a true old Labour man. Ok, he's no Lenin, but he always seemed to have his heart in the right place, despite his strong alliance with business.
That opinion of mine was suddenly dashed at around 1pm after Brown delivered his most foolish speech to date to all left-wing listeners.
Whereas he has previously been described as being "absorbed" in politics, he has clearly now seen the lights of glory that will come with leadership as his speech was laden with soundbytes and sycophantic "shout-outs". He's the Chancellor, yet he had no deep economic messages in his speech, just the regular vague promises of a Prime Minister. He's no longer "absorbed in politics", he has become "absorbed in the limelight".
But within his much applauded speech, I noticed a foolishness, unseen before in Brown, come out which, I think, will lose him points. The centre (an acronym for "sycophantic portion) of the Party will be fine with him and the speech, but the right and left wing of the Party will be displeased I think. The right wing in Britain don't like him anyway as they see him as too left-wing. The left previously appreciated him in a way as he was an old Labour head. But no longer. The Unions will not be pleased with what he has said and they're support for Labour is already hanging on a thread. Brown's continued disassociation with them will surely once and for all bring about the complete split of Labour from the Unions; the very principle that the movement was conceived on.
Whereas previously I saw Brown's progression to leadership as something which would strengthen Labour's stronghold, I now think maybe it could backfire on him. If the Tories choose the correct leader, they could again be challenging Labour seriously quite soon.
That opinion of mine was suddenly dashed at around 1pm after Brown delivered his most foolish speech to date to all left-wing listeners.
Whereas he has previously been described as being "absorbed" in politics, he has clearly now seen the lights of glory that will come with leadership as his speech was laden with soundbytes and sycophantic "shout-outs". He's the Chancellor, yet he had no deep economic messages in his speech, just the regular vague promises of a Prime Minister. He's no longer "absorbed in politics", he has become "absorbed in the limelight".
But within his much applauded speech, I noticed a foolishness, unseen before in Brown, come out which, I think, will lose him points. The centre (an acronym for "sycophantic portion) of the Party will be fine with him and the speech, but the right and left wing of the Party will be displeased I think. The right wing in Britain don't like him anyway as they see him as too left-wing. The left previously appreciated him in a way as he was an old Labour head. But no longer. The Unions will not be pleased with what he has said and they're support for Labour is already hanging on a thread. Brown's continued disassociation with them will surely once and for all bring about the complete split of Labour from the Unions; the very principle that the movement was conceived on.
Whereas previously I saw Brown's progression to leadership as something which would strengthen Labour's stronghold, I now think maybe it could backfire on him. If the Tories choose the correct leader, they could again be challenging Labour seriously quite soon.