By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982
A poll of parliamentarians - including some in the cabinet - as well as journalists and political editors supports the belief that it is in the best interests of the Labour Party for Gordon Brown to stand down.
The poll, conducted by Phi100 (Britain's most authoritative survey of inside and expert poltical opinion) for PoliticsHome, found that 55% of Left leaning panellists agree that Labour would be better off electorally were the leadership to change.
Two thirds of all respondants said that the time is right for Brown to leave Number 10.
The only group on the panel who go against the majority view are the non-aligned, who say a coup would not be in the party's best interests by a margin of fifty five to forty five.
The survey was conducted yesterday before James Purnell made his shock announcement to resign from the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Johnson has already said he won't stand and he has just been rewarded with promotion?
Brown for teh win.
Just had a look at your domain by the way, and got the message "Safari can’t find the server." Impressive.
In any case, while there's a good argument that Labourlist's position does actually reflect that of the majority of its intended audience, you, Charles Hardwidge and Chris Paul really don't have a legitimate complaint. It is, in fact, you who are throwing hissy fits - insulting the editor, calling for his resignation and so on - simply because you don't seem to find it tolerable that people should disagree with you.
Yes, I agree. The Prime Minister did well at PMQ. He halted Cameron's advance and Clegg looked like he lost his potty. Of course the Tories will talk up elections and meltdown, duh. They're doing it to rattle Labour's cage and upset people. It's all phooey.
If you listen to enough Tory lies and attempts to talk things down (like they did with the economy) of course people are going to believe their rubbish and feel scared. It's what they want because they do not have your interests at heart and just want to win.
Instead of falling back the Prime Minister must do better next week. How long before Cameron starts to crack, and Clegg starts hesitating over which ass to kiss? If Labour look like credible winners the media and public opinion will change fast enough.
What does the Tao say about that?
One performance at PMQ's and you think he's turned a corner? What about the dismal performance over the last 12 years? Hey everyone it's ok Charles has spotted winky performing well at PMQ's its going to be OK.
Your unbalanced loathing of the Tories drives you to spend your life on this site - thats nice.
But, yeah. Another editorial gaff. Alex Smith seems to have a personal agenda with getting rid of Brown and pimping his Tory friends. He doesn't have the savvy to play with the big boys and is just blowing his own teams legs off. Resign.
The fact that these rats are now leaving a sinking ship should come as no surprise to anyone. This is the end of a shameful chapter in British history, when a healthy world-beating economy was ground down through stealth taxes and red tape. The world's best pension provision was wrecked by a greedy Chancellor who thought that lots of money in the good years could be bled from pension funds with no future consequence for the individuals who were relying on this for a well-earned retirement. And in the fag-end of this spinning incompetent administration that promised to end the politics of sleaze, we learn about the worst systemic corruption in living memory.
They're behaving shamefully alright. I just don't see why you should suddenly comment on this now.
matter, best interests?
I think if you had a poll many people might decide it's in various Newspapers/TV progammes interests to lose thier
journalists or political editors.
It is not in anybody's (except the Liberal or Conservative Parties) best interests for Gordon Brown to resign.
The very fact that Tory supporters are crying out on this website for him to quit is evidence enough.
Maybe they should spend more of thier time devising policy....
The problem here appears to be an inability to act against a potentially unwanted leader. If the rules were less stringent it would be easier for MPs to act against him, if they wanted.
The real positive would be that if nobody were to act against him there would be less of a question mark against his authority.
Just a thought.
The best course of action for Labour, in the long-term, is for Gordon Brown to call a general election as soon as possible.
Anything less is unimportant to the public. Democracy is not a means to an end.
For every month Brown stays you are probably going to lose another 5-10 Labour seats.