Brown Prepares for Crucial Speech
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to give the speech of his lifetime tomorrow. During the convention of his party, Labor, Brown has to convince his party’s activists, supporters, and leaders that he is the man able to lead Labor to a victory, or at least a close call, in 2010, and to deal with the country’s economic woes in the years in between.
Sadly for Brown, however, the only people who think he’s qualified for the job are the ones who will stick by him no matter what, and who seem to be more than willing to blow their party up in order to hang on to power within their party.
The objective analyst can only comes to one conclusion; Brown is destroying Labor. Where Labor is now the biggest party in Parliament, it would only receive 24% of the votes if elections were held today. The conservative Tories, on the other hand, would receive 52%; that is nearly 30% more, and more than twice the votes that would go to Labor.
More than anything, Brown has proven to be an ineffectual, technocratic leader who may be a genius behind the scenes, but a failure in public. His speeches are not good, neither are his ideas. He’s not a man of ideas, it seems, nor of action. Voters cannot sympathize with Brown; not even his best friends and closes allies seem to like him. Where Tony Blair had charisma, Brown has … nothing really. At best: a terrible haircut.
It’s time for Brown to go. The convention will support him, still, but this convention should not be taken seriously. If Brown truly wants to help his party win elections, he’s step down now.
Since I’m a conservative, though, I don’t complain too much. The Tories will probably win in 2010, and deservedly so. They are the party of ideas nowadays.
