Parliamentary sketch: Gordon Brown's opposition from within

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As soon as Mr Clegg sat down, Geraldine Smith (Lab, Morecambe and Lunesdale) rose and supplied from a position not far behind the Prime Minister the opposition to him which had so far been lacking: "The case for the partial sale of Royal Mail is crumbling and opposition is growing across the country and in this House. Is it not about time that the Government dropped that unwanted and unnecessary measure?" A few minutes later, Harry Cohen (Lab, Leyton and Wanstead) asked Mr Brown: "Why do the Government think that banks are best run in private hands? Why do they favour a return to private investment banks rather than a state investment bank? If banks are too big to go bankrupt, surely it is in the public interest that they are run properly, rather than have public ownership of their private bad debt."

Neither Miss Smith nor Mr Cohen is a household name, and Mr Brown pointed out that they have held their views for a long time. But the effect of Mr Cameron's abstinence was to confer greater prominence on the Prime Minister's critics on his own side, and to suggest that a gulf may be opening up between Mr Brown and his own party.

Tony Blair won three elections in a row in part by attacking his own party and enraging old-style Labour supporters: a tactic which had the effect of reassuring many other voters. But Mr Blair employed this ruse from a position of strength, when the economy was growing strongly, while Mr Brown is doing it from a position of weakness, as he struggles to avoid being overwhelmed by a deepening recession.

The spectre of Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour Prime Minister who in 1931 could only stay in office with Conservative support, begins to hover over Mr Brown.

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interesting take on it.

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As soon as Mr Clegg sat down, Geraldine Smith (Lab, Morecambe and Lunesdale) rose and supplied from a position not far behind the Prime Minister the opposition to him which had so far been lacking: "The case for the partial sale of Royal Mail is crumbling and opposition is growing across the country and in this House. Is it not about time that the Government dropped that unwanted and unnecessary measure?" A few minutes later, Harry Cohen (Lab, Leyton and Wanstead) asked Mr Brown: "Why do the Government think that banks are best run in private hands? Why do they favour a return to private investment banks rather than a state investment bank? If banks are too big to go bankrupt, surely it is in the public interest that they are run properly, rather than have public ownership of their private bad debt."

Neither Miss Smith nor Mr Cohen is a household name, and Mr Brown pointed out that they have held their views for a long time. But the effect of Mr Cameron's abstinence was to confer greater prominence on the Prime Minister's critics on his own side, and to suggest that a gulf may be opening up between Mr Brown and his own party.

Tony Blair won three elections in a row in part by attacking his own party and enraging old-style Labour supporters: a tactic which had the effect of reassuring many other voters. But Mr Blair employed this ruse from a position of strength, when the economy was growing strongly, while Mr Brown is doing it from a position of weakness, as he struggles to avoid being overwhelmed by a deepening recession.

The spectre of Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour Prime Minister who in 1931 could only stay in office with Conservative support, begins to hover over Mr Brown.

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interesting take on it.

He brown is more of a neville chamberlain a liability to the state and the nation it is time we shed ourselves of this toff's class and had real government for the people by the real people of this land and not some party to which only the the cream of oxford and cambridge get admittance and then do a job of which fools would be proud of in running the nation down into the ground.