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2004-10-03 Britain

Blair abandons plans to endorse Brown as successor

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Posted by Fred 2004-10-03 12:07:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Brown's gone down.

Posted by 2b 2004-10-03 8:29:04 AM|| 2004-10-03 8:29:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I foresee some real fireworks in the future in the shape of a leadership challenge prior to the next election. Alternatively Brownwill go quietly (unlikely) and be given the Foreign Ministry/ Home Office portfolio whilst the leadership will be destined for Hain.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-10-03 8:34:21 AM|| 2004-10-03 8:34:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I foresee some real fireworks in the future in the shape of a leadership challenge prior to the next election. Alternatively Brownwill go quietly (unlikely) and be given the Foreign Ministry/ Home Office portfolio whilst the leadership will be destined for Hain.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-10-03 8:34:30 AM|| 2004-10-03 8:34:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 If this is the same Peter Hain who was a political activist in South Africa in the 70s, I remember him being quite a firebrand. Then he left for the UK, along with countless others who left for various destinations, and South Africans are now stumbling through the ruins of Apartheid, apparently lacking the will and/or the ability to build something better in its place.

Posted by Bryan 2004-10-03 8:48:46 AM|| 2004-10-03 8:48:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Not Hoon, Howard? Heh.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-10-03 9:12:10 AM|| 2004-10-03 9:12:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Same Hain, Bryan. Not well aware of his history myself, though.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-10-03 9:12:58 AM|| 2004-10-03 9:12:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 No, not Hoon! Would like to see Brown next PM... may owe too much to the old left though. Whose this Milliband chap?

Posted by Howard UK 2004-10-03 9:14:36 AM|| 2004-10-03 9:14:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hoon: The Defence Secretary the military refer to as "Buff". Ho ho ho.

Milliband - isn't he the chap who retired to "spend more time with his family" a year or so ago? Guess that didn't go down too well with the wife and kids. Competent spinner, I think. Not sure about leadership potential. I wouldn't jump in a boat if Brown got in, but I'm sure there are many better options. Kilroy's got the ambition! But I think he's on the way out. Soon to be a definite liability for UKIP, I think...

Posted by Bulldog 2004-10-03 9:22:55 AM|| 2004-10-03 9:22:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Yup, Kilroy's about to join the frothing at the mouth brigade, methinks. Good on UKIP if it starts making immigration an issue.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-10-03 9:31:32 AM|| 2004-10-03 9:31:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Hain is also a Europhile and very leftist. God forbid that he get the leadership.

Milliband is Milburn - was the health secretary and wanted to push forward the foundation hospitals initiative that just might have made the health service better. Brown hamstrung it.

Don't know about Killroy frothing at the mouth, but someone has got to start saying things that are unpalatable to the chattering classes in Islington - multi-culturalism does not work and a very large number of people in this country are very concerned about mass immigration. Of course, they're all racists and can be discounted, locked up for religious intolerance or not given public sector jobs...

I'd prefer to see the Labour party rot - they're just communism-lite.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-10-03 11:32:57 AM|| 2004-10-03 11:32:57 AM|| Front Page Top

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