We’re just not that into you, Gordon
The Centrist has been listening to the speech Gordon Brown made today to what appeared to be his best friends in the world, although the BBC calls them ‘party activists.’ Whatever that means.
Mr Brown went on at some length about how he could not possibly resign now because, as he explained it, we need him. We really, really need him.
According to the BBC:
‘Mr Brown went on: ”What would people think of a Labour government faced with an economic crisis… if we ever walked away from them at a time of need? We are sticking with them and working with them.”‘
If he ‘ever’ walked away? Is Labour planning to stay in power in the UK forever?
He keeps saying things like that.
’I will not walk away’ he said on Friday, as if that would make the country feel better.
The mind boggles
There is so much wrong with this statement, that the mind boggles.
- He’s not ‘faced with’ an economic crisis. As the chancellor for 10 years he built this crisis up from nothing. Did anybody else ever hear him mention America’s financial practices before the British property market bubble burst? No? Me neither. Through lack of regulation, short-term thinking, and poor practices, he made this.
- No political party gets to decide when to leave. As much as he’d like to stay and help, most of the voting population has strongly indicated that they’d prefer a different fireman in this emergency. And in a democracy the voters decide who is in charge.
Why does the Labour party at the moment seem to consider democracy to be optional? Leaders of the party keep explaining why an election is unnecessary. I’ve never heard anything like these verbal political contortions in my life.
Please leave us alone
Let me ask you something. Did you ever, when you were a teenager, have one of those boy- or girl-stalkers? You know the kind: they asked you out (or maybe you asked them), and you went out once, but there was no there there. So you decided… nah.
But they kept calling, and coming around, clinging to your sleeve in the hallway, gazing at you lovingly, refusing to accept that the feeling was not returned. Begging, even.
And there would come a horrible moment when you thought, ‘I’m actually going to have to be mean to this person to make them go away.’ Even worse, maybe you found yourself wanting to be mean to them, because they were so needy, or so wrong about you and what you felt.
That’s what Gordon Brown (and by association, Labour) reminds me of now. He thinks we love him. Or at least, he thinks we need him. We know we don’t. We keep telling him this, but he won’t believe us.
Gordon Brown is stalking us
We might have to be mean to him to make him understand that, when you get right down to it, we’re just not that into him.
