Great Political Leadership

I see that nice Barak Obama has been in Britain hoping that some of the Gordon Brown magic will rub off on him. They had a two hour meeting in which Gordon treated the young Senator to a run down of his greatest achievements as head of government. The pictures released afterwards displayed Barak's remarkable ability to keep a straight face – a quality that him will serve him well if he wins the presidency and has to be polite to George Bush in public. In the interests of political impartiality, Barak was careful to acknowledge all of Britains national political parties. His visit was split into three parts. There was the Labour visit, the Conservative visit, and tea and biscuits.

The Labour Party have, while all this has been going on, been running the rule over prospective new leaders, still convinced that they are not really unpopular at all, it is just Gordon Brown's fault. They are trying to think of ways to get Gordon to resign. Plan number one appears to be to get Geoff Hoon to tell him he should leave. Once Gordon has remembered who Geoff Hoon is, he would listen to Geoff's message that only a great statesman such as Gordon would have the courage to stand down in the interests of party and country, following those great wartime leaders, Neville Chamberlain and Anthony Eden. They would then be able to draw a veil over the whole Brown leadership, assuming Jack Straw doesn't object. Jack is, in fact, seen in some quarters as the energetic young leader that the country needs (John McCain is said to be watching the situation closely, although he suspects that, at 61, Jack might benefit from another thirty years experience just to make sure he's ready). The other option is Alan Johnson – a man who is such a charismatic natural leader that he came second in the race to replace John Prescott! Go on Labour Party, I dare you!