From Granita to Desperados

Last night I had a couple of pints with my good friend the Moai. The conversation, as always, travelled far and wide but at one point the Moai mentioned that he used to live near the Granita restaurant, where Blair and Brown worked out their now notorious deal over the Labour leadership. He mentioned the restaurant is now a cheesy Mexican place and rued the fact that if you wanted to visit the potentially historical site, you'd now be doing so over a meal of processed, ersatz Mexican food. 

For me, though, the transition from restaurant where the prosperous future leaders of the country would it to a Tex-Mex place neatly mirrors the decline of the Labour party from once unstoppable election winning machine to laughable wreck of a party. Yeah, that's Gordon Brown's Labour party for you - the cheap, compromised shadow of what it once was.