Labour's Master Election Planners Turn Their Backs On Ranting Brown
Gordon Brown’s bid to cling on to power has been dealt another savage blow after it emerged that the Labour Party’s leading campaigners are boycotting his Election team.
Three senior Labour figures,all of whom played key roles in Tony Blair’s string of victories, have rejected personal pleas by No10 to help Mr Brown defeat David Cameron.
Labour chiefs say they are being forced to ‘scrape the barrel’ when it comes to putting together their campaign team because Mr Brown has made so many enemies in the party and has little chance of winning.
Mr Brown’s former aide and speechwriter Spencer Livermore has refused to return to a full-time job at Downing Street. He left No10 weeks after the Prime Minister reduced him to tears during an explosive tantrum over the on-off election fiasco in autumn 2007, and friends say he is not willing to go back because he still feels ‘scarred’ over the incident.
Veteran Labour loyalist David Hill, who succeeded Alastair Campbell as Tony Blair’s Director of Communications and now works for PR company Good Relations, has also indicated that he will not join Mr Brown’s election campaign team.
Fellow spin-doctor David-John Collins, a former speechwriter for Tony Blair, and now head of corporate communications for the internet giant Google, has also turned down a similar approach, citing ‘family reasons’.
Labour chiefs say they are being forced to ‘scrape the barrel’ when it comes to putting together their campaign team because Mr Brown has made so many enemies in the party and has little chance of winning.
Mr Brown’s former aide and speechwriter Spencer Livermore has refused to return to a full-time job at Downing Street. He left No10 weeks after the Prime Minister reduced him to tears during an explosive tantrum over the on-off election fiasco in autumn 2007, and friends say he is not willing to go back because he still feels ‘scarred’ over the incident.
Veteran Labour loyalist David Hill, who succeeded Alastair Campbell as Tony Blair’s Director of Communications and now works for PR company Good Relations, has also indicated that he will not join Mr Brown’s election campaign team.
Fellow spin-doctor David-John Collins, a former speechwriter for Tony Blair, and now head of corporate communications for the internet giant Google, has also turned down a similar approach, citing ‘family reasons’.
Both men had been expected to take time off work to help the party.
Mr Brown’s allies say Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who is in charge of election planning, is running out of suitable replacements.
‘No one wants to work for Gordon either because they think defeat is a foregone conclusion, they have no faith in him or theyjust don’t like his ranting,’ said one source. ‘We are having to scrape the barrel.’
The boycott by battle-hardened Labour campaigners lends weight to claims that Mr Brown’s mood swings are an increasing concern in Labour’s inner circle.
‘If Gordon wants people to die in a ditch for him, he should treat them with more consideration,’ said a Labour insider. ‘Loyalty begets loyalty.’
Mr Brown’s allies say Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who is in charge of election planning, is running out of suitable replacements.
‘No one wants to work for Gordon either because they think defeat is a foregone conclusion, they have no faith in him or theyjust don’t like his ranting,’ said one source. ‘We are having to scrape the barrel.’
The boycott by battle-hardened Labour campaigners lends weight to claims that Mr Brown’s mood swings are an increasing concern in Labour’s inner circle.
‘If Gordon wants people to die in a ditch for him, he should treat them with more consideration,’ said a Labour insider. ‘Loyalty begets loyalty.’
But the Prime Minister’s supporters rejected claims that he is impossible to work with.‘Gordon is a very intense person and gets cross when things go wrong because he cares so much,’ said one. ‘It is cobblers to say he is manic or a depressive.
How my heart bleeds for this nasty piece of shit and it would appear that the plotters are once again circling in
the background just waiting for him to make a bad speech at the Labour conference and for David Cameron to outshine him at the Conservative conference, which would seem to be a foregone conclusion. Labour insiders say that high ranking party members have been trying to persuade Alan Johnson to stop dithering over his leadership ambitions as he is seen as a credible replacement for Brown, (God help us), and this will be their last chance to oust him before the election. If it is anything like their last two attempts it will be, to quote an oldie but goodie, "like being savaged by a dead sheep". You can read more about it HERE. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=9621db21-6b3f-46ec-ac71-1df612d4ffc5)
FFS, Spider, the Labour Party is so completely incompetent that they can't even kick a man when he is down.
ReplyDeleteWould Johnson want to be the leader through Labour's wilderness years? He was smart enough to get out of the fucking Post Office, so I'm guessing no.
What a godawful excuse for a human being.
ReplyDeleteHad Brown been in Hitler's shoes, how far down Hitler's path would he have gone?
You got that right, Edgar, and as for Johnson, he's blotted his copy book a few times already, but especially over the Gary McKinnon extradition farce - perhaps he's just what they deserve if they can talk him into it - a self-confessed "hack politician!" They are also talking about Ed Miliband for the job so either way they're fucked!
ReplyDeleteIt is all so like 1997 but just different colours and faces. Still more enjoyable, though!
ReplyDeleteUncle Bob is right. Those stupid bastards could actually have saved seats by tossing Brown overboard and providing an EU referendum.
ReplyDeleteBut "critical mass" is all they seem to understand.
Isn't it, OR, except it's the right way round this time, if you know what I mean.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you're any more malevolent or sadistic towards this shower of shit than I am, Uncle Bob, or anyone else whose blogs we read and follow, for that matter. For purely tactical reasons, I sincerely hope they fail to oust him yet again because he is spiteful enough cling on and wait to do his runner for "health reasons" just before the television debate, when it will then be too late for Labour to do anything except go down in the flames of the fire that Brown has already built for them.
ReplyDeleteI'm not even sure if their understanding of anything extends that far, Nickie, and I'm still not convinced they can pull it off as they are so disorganised and cowardly. I really hope that they fail, crash and burn for the reasons I mentioned in my reply to Uncle Bob.
ReplyDeleteThis is heartening news.
ReplyDeleteI tell you what would be really good news: if the MSM really turned on Brown.
He gets off so lightly and I can't figure out why. I am yet to meet a single person who likes him. So, why aren't the papers and TV (BBC excluded) filled with mockery of the idiot?
I'm baffled.
Good question, Gigits!
ReplyDeleteI think the lefty MSM are saying as little as possible at the moment and waiting to see what happens.
What baffles me, for example, is that Fox News is such a right wing orientated channel, yet Sky News, also Rupert Murdoch's, has lefty luvvies like Adam Boulton tacitly backing Labour and giving them far too much of an easy time.
The Sun has turned on Labour to a certain extent but not nearly enough - the Mail and the Express and sometimes the Telegraph are the only papers that speak out against Labour, with the Mail, especially, being ridiculed often for their anti-Labour stance.
It's all a lefty conspiracy, mate!