29 January 2007

Labour Party in deep, deep doo-doo shock!!

I find it intriguing that the media are treating all of the current problems within the Labour Party in total isolation and seem to be ignoring the totality of the mess that they are in.

Firstly, their leader is getting deeper and deeper into difficulty over cash for peerages. He seems to have come up with a totally unsupportable defence and it now looks more and more likely that he will, at the very least, be questioned under caution. There is also now talk of prosecutions for with-holding evidence and for electoral irregularities surrounding the terms of the loans the Labour Party received.

Next, the two people who were supposedly the hot contenders to replace the ailing PM are getting deeper and deeper in the mire. Dr Reid is increasingly being seen as a headline grabbing incompetent Home Secretary, thus blowing his chances of becoming leader; whilst Gordon Brown is being slowly dragged deeper and deeper into trouble over the role of the Smith Institute. There are also growing concerns over the levels of taxation and the overall state of the economy which could mean he is a liability even before he takes over as PM. So, arguably, the top 3 figures in the Labour Party are now an electoral liability.

Finally, the Labour Party finances are looking increasingly desperate. The Daily Mail is suggesting that they have a shortfall of £42m (yes, I know it's the Daily Mail and I know that some of this is based on what they need to fight an election). Whatever the actual figure, they are in deep trouble. There is also growing pressure to plug the Labour Party's biggest source of funding; justice dictates that if there are to be caps on maximum donations, this must include Unions - any other solution will be seen as a fiddle.

So why aren't the media putting all these issues together and highlighting exactly how big a problem there is? I suspect it is still in their interests to keep running with three separate headlines.

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