In February I blogged that:
"Rupert Murdoch likes winners, that's why he swapped from Conservative to Labour prior to 1997 and why the Sun (and to a lesser degree The Times) has been shifting away from Labour over recent months. Today Trevor Kavanagh has an article that is the closest yet to a call to vote Conservative - it's actually a call for Gordon Brown to resign:"WHY is Gordon Brown still Prime Minister?
After the events of last week, why has he not resigned? And if he won’t go of his own accord, how long before he is hounded out by voters whose homes, pensions and jobs he’s put in peril?"
Today I see that The Sun have a piece by Trevor Kavanagh:
"IT’S bad enough when senior Cabinet ministers line up to tell Gordon Brown to say sorry.
It’s worse when his instructions to stop leaking such hurtful stories are plastered all over the following day’s papers.
But when ex-minister Peter Hain pops up with helpful advice on winning an election, Gordon must surely know Labour are doomed.
His stricken, rudderless Government is falling apart at the seams and heading for oblivion. Half the Cabinet could end up as ex-MPs.
We may be about to witness the total eclipse of a domineering political clique after 13 years of unbridled power.
For the surviving rump, the only question is who will lead once Gordon is gone.
Those jostling to succeed are outnumbered only by others trying to ensure they are on the side of the winner.
Brazen Harriet Harman was first out of the traps and there can’t be a political journalist in the land who isn’t silently muttering, “Go, Hattie, go!”
If this really is “her moment”, we’ll never be short of a juicy story from the Hattie House of Horrors.
Never willingly undersold, she has even begun describing herself as Deputy Prime Minister, perhaps hoping to convey an aura of entitlement. Sadly, a new poll shows she is as unpopular with her own party as she deserves to be. But Harriet has tapped into a resurgence of the Labour Left, where her views on “wimmin” and “social justice” strike a chord.
With Tony Blair’s champagne socialism leaving a sour taste, there is a growing appetite for the real thing.
The fight for the leadership will be a titanic struggle between Old and New Labour. "
Go and read the whole piece and pay special attention to its ending:
"Flying home from Washington last week, the PM turned on journalists who asked him to apologise for his part in the Great Recession. But once Gordon started saying sorry, where would he stop? Would he apologise for turning Britain into a giant welfare state, with 12million adults dependent on taxpayers, either for their salary or benefit?
Is he sorry for opening the door to millions of unchecked migrants now in cut-throat competition for British jobs?
Is he sorry for selling off our gold at rock-bottom prices and wrecking private pension savings while bloating the public sector’s.
Will he apologise for refusing to build nuclear power stations? Or new prisons to hold those dangerous criminals now roaming free?
Does he regret the failure of schools to educate our youngsters properly for the tough times ahead?
No. After 12 years in charge, he can’t say sorry.
That would be to confess Labour has misspent more than a decade in power.
Yes, I know.
But once Gordon put his hands up, the only honest course of action would be to call an immediate election.
Kicking out this tired, tatty Government is precisely what Britain needs. And it is precisely why Gordon won’t give us the chance. "
Rupert Murdoch is moving his forces away from New Labour and that is the biggest signal that he has read the mood of the Country and he is moving to align himself with winners not losers.
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