Friday, January 04, 2013

‘Brown’, but not out!

Labour Party is in trouble and so is Brown, but his resignation will not make matters any better

Julius Caesar would surely lend a sympathetic ear to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown; as he would relate to him quite well. It’s not only the Opposition and rebels who are baying for Brown’s blood. Even party insiders view the PM as the key obstacle to the party’s hopes of avoiding defeat in the next elections. Rebel Labour MPs are distributing a letter calling on Brown to step down. He has survived a political gale by hastily reshuffling his cabinet, but political analysts say that the storm is far from over. The Labour party performed miserably in the recent local elections for the first time in 30 years. In power since 1997, it lost over 300 councillors and chances are high that the party may be wiped off in some southern counties. Some Labour councillors say that the MPs expense scandal, a wave of senior minister resignations and the government’s failure to handle Britain’s worst recession since World War II led to the catastrophic election results. But the embattled premier has put a brave front, saying on his new cabinet, “I have chosen a determined and strong Cabinet that will fight hard for the British people in these difficult times.”


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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