The Big City

After Gordon’s excellent performance in his interview with Andy Marr this morning I’m feeling a bit more optimistic about Labour’s chances in the next election. He’s got a bit of a delicate balancing act to do. On one hand he doesn’t want to look like Blair’s chosen successor because Blair is so unpopular at the moment so he needs to appear as though he has deposed Blair, to some extent, and given him a kick on the way down. On the other hand, nobody like a regicide and in any case he still wants to take credit for all Labour’s positive achievements. I think he’s getting it about right at the moment.
My girlfriend was saying today that one of the reasons she likes Brown is that he’s a bit dark and brooding - slightly unknowable. It made me think that the next election might look a bit like Bridget Jones’s Diary with the electorate as Bridget (Fags today: 168 million[1]), Brown as the upright and slightly inarticulate Darcy and Cameron as the charming but disreputable Daniel Cleaver.