Great news for the Conservative Party

The news that the Labour party have once again chickened out of confronting Gordon Brown and his heavies must have brought much cheer to David Cameron and his team. The best man to lead Labour, from the Conservatives point of view, is Gordon Brown. The Conservatives know that Gordon Brown has managed to become not only a hated man to much of the Country but also a figure of fun to even more. As I wrote back in late 2007:

"Bad news Gordon but tonight when Graham Norton made a joke about you and the audience laughed approvingly it struck me - you are now officially a figure of fun!

The joke was about a picture of you and your wife looking glum at the Queen and Prince Phillip's 60th anniversary service.

"What happened to him?

Did he get his dream job and discover he's shit at it"

That and a gag about the missing data disks, and a piss take of Alistair Darling -hello Darling, ... Darling, "you're a fucking idiot Darling, you're sacked"


Hatred is bearable for a government, Mrs Thatcher thrived on it. What kills a government is derision, it killed Major's government and it will kill Gordon Brown's. Trust me it will get worse, Graham Norton today, Jonathan Ross tomorrow and it will spread."

Now the laughing at Gordon Brown's faults and mental state has become mainstream; from Rory Bremner's Gordon Brown as Mika song to the open laughing at him on the BBC's Radio 4 "News Quiz", a show normally too pro-Labour to openly mock a Labour leader. It will be interesting to see if that open laughter by the News Quiz team last week will be repeated now that Gordon Brown seems safer as Prime Minister and the Labour party "narrative" is of people backing him.

As John Major found, mocking is a powerful weapon against a Prime Minister, and there is no way back.