Britannist

Gordon Brown could face disunity in the Labour Party, problems with the trade unions and someone else as Liberal ‘Democrat’ Party leader if he does call a General Election now, writes Simon Heffer (the eurosceptic columnist who backed UKIP in last year’s Bromley-Chislehurst Parliamentary By-Election).

Mr. Heffer pointed out in today’s Telegraph (brief edited extracts) “If there is no poll, Mr. Brown risks sending a message….that he has bottled out. Do not misunderstand me: I do not mean to imply that, by waiting until next spring, or next autumn, or until 2009, he is going to hand the Conservative Party victory on a plate. It is easier to believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden than to swallow that. But to slam the brakes on now would make it much harder, when the time does eventually come, for him to lead his party into anything other than a hung Parliament. They are all Brownites now: but they won't all necessarily stay that way. Those in marginal seats who are so keen for a poll now will see their livelihoods potentially slipping away.”

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Will Gordon Brown go in for the kill? - Telegraph