If Starmer thinks that resuscitating Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman will somehow revive his fortunes, he is just confirming what many of his own MPs already suspect. He really is rubbish at politics.
I remember Sir Anthony Meyer, I have been a politics junky for as long as I can remember. I stayed up all night at the age of ten to watch JFK win the vote in 1960, all on my own.
“But back to Sir Anthony Meyer. Thatcher easily saw off his challenge, but less than a year later, her former Cabinet colleague Michael Heseltine mounted his own, much more serious challenge and she failed to win enough votes to continue in office. The rest is history.”
The challenge by Heseltine a year later was not inevitable but contingent upon certain events or political actions. It was not inevitable and neither was it a given that Geoffrey Howe would suffer the abuse at Thatcher’s hands; or that she would go all imperious over Europe.
Surely a more apposite quote is Hemingway's "gradually and then suddenly".
The dam has now cracked irretrievably. We know the river is now coming through - we just don't know at what speed. I would expect a decisive move sooner rather than later.
I remember Sir Anthony Meyer, I have been a politics junky for as long as I can remember. I stayed up all night at the age of ten to watch JFK win the vote in 1960, all on my own.
I expect that he will invite Tony Blair back!
I am quoting a para from your newsletter:
“But back to Sir Anthony Meyer. Thatcher easily saw off his challenge, but less than a year later, her former Cabinet colleague Michael Heseltine mounted his own, much more serious challenge and she failed to win enough votes to continue in office. The rest is history.”
The challenge by Heseltine a year later was not inevitable but contingent upon certain events or political actions. It was not inevitable and neither was it a given that Geoffrey Howe would suffer the abuse at Thatcher’s hands; or that she would go all imperious over Europe.
Surely a more apposite quote is Hemingway's "gradually and then suddenly".
The dam has now cracked irretrievably. We know the river is now coming through - we just don't know at what speed. I would expect a decisive move sooner rather than later.