Blogs For Victory

I wonder if early elections will be called:

Hazel Blears dealt a potentially fatal blow to Gordon Brown’s political authority today when she announced her departure from Cabinet on the eve of crucial local and European elections.

It was the fourth ministerial resignation in 24 hours and the second at Cabinet level after the news yesterday that Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, is also to stand down. It also came as Mr Brown’s critics in the Labour Party canvassed support for a round-robin letter calling on the Prime Minister to resign.

With Labour currently being monumentally unpopular, I wonder if the Labour party will be able to legitimately hold on to office if Brown is ousted? There certainly would be a strong argument in favor of a new poll of the electorate to determine whom shall be in control of Britain’s destiny in these dark times. For Labour, it would be a calculus of whether hanging on or resigning would be best- certainly, Labour is going to lose, and lose rather badly, when the next national elections are held…but would they lose less badly now, or later? Later passions might have cooled, or gotten worse. Tricky, tricky, tricky…and hopefully a harbinger of American events in November of 2010.