Of course Gordon shouldn’t go… yet

Gordon Brown gives an interesting interview in this week’s New Statesman in which he answers calls for his resignation (from critics including - surprise, surprise - his old adversary Charles Clarke) by insisting he isn’t going anywhere. Of course he isn’t! He may be a ditherer but Gordon’s no quitter. This is a man who waited ten long years to get his hands on the top job. The thought of his days in the post he’s coveted since his youth being numbered must surely compel him to hang on for the duration of what little time he has left. For Brown to quit now would do us all a disservice, not least the electorate. We didn’t get the chance to vote him in to power so why should we be deprived of voting him out (or in, as the case may be)? New Labour would be arrogant to assume that the public’s malaise with the party of government for the last 12 years is purely to do with Gordon Brown. He may lack charisma but Labour would lack communal common sense if that’s what they truly believed. With or without Brown and his fireside chats and YouTube broadcasts, the likelihood is that Labour is going down in May 2010. They may as well go as gracefully as possible. That way, the party may be down but they won’t have to be out for a long stretch in the wilderness, as the doomsayers predict.

Read the full interview with Prime Minister Brown here.