Bliar, Brown and 'Davey' Who?

Part One

Right. Everyone is taking about politics at the moment. Gordon Brown is ahead in the polls and I'm bloody glad he is because now David Cameron's honeymoon period is over people are starting to see what a wanker he is. I hate David Cameron and did so at first glance. I was about fourteen when he came to lead the Tory party and labelled him straight away as a "Tony Blair wannabe" and let's face it, he is. In fact, no, he much worse. So for my muse this week I intend to tell you all exactly what I think about David Cameron and why he will never be Prime Minister of Great Britain. This is nothing to do with the fact that people just like Gordon Brown better or think 'Dave' is too much like Tony Blair because everyone hates Tony Blair. I'm going to tell you why David Cameron will lose... because he never will be Tony Blair.

Let's go back to May 1997, at which time I would have been six-years-old. Like most little children in the country I had been brought up to hate John Major, and love anything that opposed him and his party, the blues, the Conservatives. On principle, my father was a socialist and had always supported Labour for that very reason. By 1997, however, it had become 'New Labour' - a left-wing Capitalist party. This began in 1994 the Labour Party leader, John Smith, who many have named 'The Best Prime Minister We Never Had', died suddenly of a heart attack. All of a sudden the gap was open for change. Tony Blair realised that so-called "Old Labour" would never push the Tories out unless they under went changes. 

At the time of Smith's death Blair had been Shadow Home Secretary. (I would like to point out that at the end of this piece I will be pointing out to all of you the achievements and offices held by Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Sir Menzies Campbell, so that you can see just how much more these people have done for the country.) When Labour held an election for their new leadership the original candidates were: John Prescott, Margaret Beckett, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. The first two were just powerful names at the time with minor influence. The big two were Brown and Blair. Both had served the party for a long time, Brown long then Blair, but still a long time. It is widely believed that there was an agreement between the pair...

Brown could see that Blair had what it took to change Labour and win the next election. Blair had done a lot to modernise the campaign during the 1992 elections. Despite the fact that he really wanted to run for the party leadership, Brown stepped down on the promise that he would be made leader at some point during Blair's time as Prime Minister. Had he known he would have to wait thirteen years, would have agreed? So, Blair became party leader unopposed and history was made. As soon as he became party leader, he began pushing for a policy he had been pushing for many years in his various offices: the minimum wage. The Conservatives had refused give this policy thought as they believed a minimum wage would do damage to the share holders and company bosses and the workers themselves. This was the impression the 'interval'  Prime Minister John Major made.

Let me take a break to fill you in on David Cameron and his achievements prior to him becoming party leader. To put it bluntly, he has none. Prior to becoming party leader he had worked in the research centre, briefing John Major before a speech (Didn't do a good job then, did he?), an advisor, he worked with the Treasury, and did a couple of other monkey jobs which aren't especially exciting. His only real jobs where as MPs for Whitney and Stafford. He never stood in Stafford as he became MP there at the time of Labour's election into power. I believe when the flood occured in Whitney he only dropped in once to see the damage before jetting off on holiday. He has recently come back to nothing but grief. But more on that later, back to Labour:

Tony Blair straight away began to reform the Labour party upon his election in 1994 - appointing all of his rivals for the leadership into notable points in his shadow cabinet. By 1997 it seemed to become obvious that the Conservatives were going to be pushed out of power. For five years Major waited for something good to happen but it never happened. By 1997 he had run out of time. By 1997 everyone knew and wanted it to be Tony. The one thing one must give to John Major - he met his defeat with honour. He simply said when the polling station closed and the results came in: "Well, we lost."

(More coming soon)

I will be writing this article throughout this week.