Brown Bashing: “Right now, the problem is Brown himself.”

A wonderful piece over at The Guardian rips into Gordon Brown. There are a number of comments that stand out, this being one of my favourites:

“Gordon lost it with the aborted election, has been defined by the episode as indecisive, and continues to indulge in confirmatory behaviour.”

Absolutely. Gordo lost it by not calling an election he would have won. History is filled with fuck ups by politicians that cost them dearly. This is an example of one.

Even Labour MPs have started ripping into their PM – less than a year after he was elected unopposed. Take these comments:

“Psychologically, Brown is brooding in a very bleak place, says one MP. He's clinically depressed, opines another. The old demons that warned him he might not be up to the job are gnawing at him again, says a third. And so it goes on. He feels remorse and guilt that he has messed it up so badly. He thinks the public have turned against him. He's haunted by going down in history as Labour's worst prime minister.”

This all sounds like the last days of the Nixon administration, as Watergate drowned the Nixon presidency. Brown has fucked up. He knows it. His MPs know it. This is a bleak time for any Prime Minsiter.

And this is perhaps the most withering comment in the whole piece:

“There isn't an Attlee or Roosevelt lurking inside the prime minister. There's just the same old Gordon with the same old strengths and weaknesses.”

There you have it. A piece in The Guardian stating that the PM isn’t great, and is just the misanthropic old Gordon Brown that some of us have known about all along.

And that is what is so striking. These are comments from Labour MPs. It is a comment piece in a left-wing publication. Gordon Brown has fucked up with unseemly speed. If his own support base and if his own MPs are turning against him, then it is only a matter of time before he truly becomes a dead man walking.