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History shows by-election result will not decide Brown's fate



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Published Date: 19 July 2008
By PETER KELLNER
President of YouGov
'BROWN quits four months after SNP captures Labour stronghold!" No, that's not a prediction for this autumn; it's a glimpse at Labour's past.
The prospect of Labour losing Glasgow East has caused some excitable journalists and panicky Labour MPs to depict impending apocalypse. Some think (wish?) that the Prime Minister's fate will depend on the result. Yet a brief trip down memory lane sho...



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  • Last Updated: 18 July 2008 9:11 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

John PM,

Edinburgh 19/07/2008 08:04:52
Obviously an SNP win is now expected and the Scotsman is preparing the ground for the wretched Brown clinging on.
2

Peter Curran,

Kirkliston 19/07/2008 08:31:37
Peter Kellner's analysis manages to ignore the elephant in the room - Brown's Scottishness and that of his key lieutenants. The English electorate already believe they are being misgoverned by a Scottish mafia, and they saw his predecessor, Tony Blair, as a Scot, even if Blair himself did his best to conceal and repudiate his Scottish roots. They are incensed by the implications of the West Lothian question, and resentful of what they see as Scottish economic privileges.
If Brown's party is rejected in his heartland by Scots, the Labour Party and the English electorate will draw an obvious conclusion, as will English members of his cabinet. Was this factor really not perceived by Peter Kellner?

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3

donald anderson it's me,

weegieland 19/07/2008 09:04:16
Brown will have to be booted out, whinging and screaming. He won't resign and will milk his salary and perks right up to the last possible minute. Labourites have no shame,or embarrassment, or they would not be Labourites.
4

Barry Donald Scarfe,

Brentwood 19/07/2008 11:43:35
It doesn't matter whether Brown is booted out or not because by traitorously signing the Lisbon Treaty he has now effectively abolished any point in having future general elections as the sovereignty is now in Brussels. The man is twisted with a capital T and his scummy 'government' is full of dead men walking so they are determined to do as much damage as possible to the country in the next two years in a sort of 'scorched earth' policy. Mr Brown's democratic credentials have always been weak. His political hero isn't so much Margaret Thatcher more Comrade Bob of Zimbabwe.

 

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