From @LabourList
Below is the text from the email circulating amongst backbench Labour MPs tonight:
Dear Gordon,
Over the last 12 years in government, and before, you have made an enormous contribution to this country and to the Labour Party, and this is widely acknowledged. However, we are writing now because we believe that in the current political situation, you can best serve the Labour Party and the country by stepping down as party leader and Prime Minister and so allowing the party to find a new leader to take us into the next general election.
Yours,
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Gordon Brown's timing and maddeing attention to detail are clear faults (such as in the Gurkhas), but he does get there in the end. Had we followed the Conservative policy we would now be watching countless more businesses going down as we did time and again in the 80's and 90's.
The country would still have an incredible deby problem and it would be longer term. The economic policy he advocated is working, I am watching it save jobs, businesses and to an extent even lives in South Korea as well as the UK. Now we have seen resignations from the Cabinet it is time for the Shadow Cabinet to do likewise...I guess that is why Cameron looked so worried at PMQ's.
When times are tough we stand together not give in to weak MP's (the same MP's who have betrayed the Labour Party with expenses and now are only trying to save thier jobs at the PM's sacrifice). If we follow the easy path we become like them...weak pitiful scroungers who abuse deomocracy for house furnishings....
BBC's Michael Crick wonders if he'll last the week (he gives him 50-50)
Blairites are awaiting the close of polling tomorrow night to commence their offensive.
A week may be a long time in politics, but this is all great fun. (Just a pity that the whole country suffers each day this shambles stay in office).
http://www.labourlist.org/cameron_i_dont_know_how_many_houses_ive_got_will_straw,2009-05-28
Blimey. I do think that voters recognise a lot of things about Gordon Brown. I think they recognise that he is intellectually out of his depth as PM, that his tenure as Chancellor was ruinous for the country, that he has no credible vision for our country, that his inept and autocratic style has alienated his own colleagues, that he has no sustaining support among his own MPs, that his temperament is fundamentally unsuited to running a crisis operation, that the advice he takes is selective and narrow, that he can't "get" the popular mood - indeed that he rejects such fripperies as the common mood, that the very narrow field of his political competence is focussed on a statist political model that is totally at odds with our times, that his character flaws mandate that he close his eyes, ears and mind to feedback not in accordance with his forecasts, that if it ain't on the "grid" he can't compute it, and that even if he were the best ever PM, he can't fight the electorate. He's simply not politically agile enough: he's an unlucky lumpen heffalump with a vindictive streak, and the electorate of our country don't want him to be our PM. Just as with MPs claiming their expenses were "within the rules", so Gordon's claims that his unopposed accession to being the PM needs no election. The court of public opinion doesn't agree, and the voices now calling for an election are only going to get louder and louder until they are heard.
The one comical thing about Gordon (I'm trying to stop myself from automatically saying "Gordon ****ing Brown" everytime I hear his name - to little avail) is that both he and his supporters keep parroting the phrase that he is "the best man" or "best qualified" to take Britain out of our current difficulties. How can they keep a straight face when they say that? From my perspective, both the Labour Party and the country would be most immediately well-served by getting rid of this human, economic, and political failure who by his own unadmitted failings over many years actively increased and worsened those difficulties.
Where we work, what we earn, what we write, what we say, what we eat, what we spend, we we travel, what we vote, what we think.
He isn't going to give this up. Stalin didn't.
No matter what your personal goals or opinion is, you must be able to see the wave of change in the country. You must realise that your Party is becoming fragmented and you must see this is because of you.
I understand that you don't want to lose face, but do you not realise that if you stay until the slightly overweight and technically classed as obese lady sings that you will be mocked forever?
Please, do the right thing, do 'what is right for the country' and let this be your closing message to the party;
"I do what I do now for the good of my Party, for the good of my country. Rightly or wrongly, I am percieved as not being in the best interests of those I seek to serve, so I hereby give my resignation. I will continue to fight for what I believe, what millions of Labour supporters believe, but it is out of respect for them that I do what I do now"
Do that and you will not go down as the worst Prime Minister in history, you will be celebrated as the man that saw the mood of the country and reacted with diginity and courage. You will be viewed at the man who decided that personal ambition meant less that the values of his Party.
If you can not listen to your closet advisors, it is probably because they are telling you what you want to hear. Listen to the real Labour supporters. Listen to the people and look closely at the history books. Men with courage are noted for what they do, men who simply stick in to the end are usually mocked and written as mad men, lunatics or deluded individuals.
Who is right? Gordon Brown or the British People?
It is similar to the pain the private sector and citizens have suffered for years under these disgusting socialist thieves.
You lot should have ditched brown when I first suggested it - told you it would all be down hill.
hahahahaha
This autocratic top-down authoritarian insistence on extreme ideological purity (at the expense of having a sensible debate about the best way of reaching agreed goals) is exactly why three-quarters of the former members of the Labour arty have chosen to throw themselves out of the party rather than waiting to be kicked out.
It is NOT the way to attract support - either from natural / former Party members, or from the electorate.
Your absurd totalitarian plea for those with a different opinion to yours to be thrown out of the party perhaps reveals why you are so keen on the current leadership.
What a disgrace!and all the Tory media can say to the country is the PM is fighting for his political career---Nonsense---I hope the voters will recognise that Brown is a hard working man and has shown integrity and intelligence and he is the right man to be our Prime Minister
These MPS that have supposedly sent out an email for signatures to try to bring down the PM-----SEEK THEM OUT--THROW THEM OUT OF THE LABOUR PARTY.