| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Who will win the leaders debate tonight (based on the economy) | |
| Posted by: | Richard Greenhough | |
| Date/Time: | 29/04/10 17:06:00 |
| "If you are interested in the best man for the job" Some say that Gordon Bean was a good Chancellor, although that is itself highly contentious. He totally lacks the necessary skills to be PM, as evidenced by the rumblings and resignations from within his own ministerial ranks over the last couple of years. Even long-term allies such as Alistair Darling have virtually written him off - hence his comment about the forces of hell being unleashed on him from No.10. Peter Mandelson recognised that Tony Blair was by far the better equipped of the two contenders to lead the Labour Party back to power, and duly engineered it so that Gordon Bean was shunted out of his way. Unfortunately that led Bean to think that he had been unfairly cheated out of his destiny, and he spent much time during his spell as Chancellor trying to eject the Prime Minister. For the whole Nu-Labour project, it is a shame that the two did not stand against each other in a contested election for Labour leader - then perhaps Bean would have been forced to realise that he was not the man for the job by a heavy defeat. Instead he plotted and smeared his way to power, avoiding any form of democratic mandate from either his party or the country, and is now due to receive his come-uppance. He is a sad and pathetic figure; perhaps after yesterday it is finally sinking in to him that he is not the best man for the job, while the country is coming round to the view that he isn't even the second-best man for the job. |