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by John Kennedy David Milliband wrote in The Guardian "Against all odds we can still win, on a platform for change" saying "in government, unless you choose sides, you get found out," never once mentioning Gordon Brown and has been lambasted for using this as a leadership challenge to the Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Today's YouGov poll shows the Tories on 47 per cent and Labour is on 25 per cent, a 22-point lead that would give the Cameron's Conservative party a landslide victory at a general election. John Kennedy an experienced commentator on the Labour Party takes the view that unity behind Brown is the only option for Labour to avoid political oblivion.
That's exactly what the Labour Party should do with their leader Gordon Brown, stand by him.
It highlights how some of these politician's think only of themselves, in fact it wouldn't be a bad idea to deselect the odd one or two of them.
Now if some in the Labour Party think the smart thing to do is to topple their leader and throw the country into a constitutional crisis, well take a look at a couple of recent polls, David Cameron and the Conservative Party do have a commanding lead, but this lead is not a solid one at the moment and it could easily evaporate if for example fuel tax was to be cut, the economy picks up by the third quarter next year and the Labour Party hold their nerve and ride the storm together, after all isn't unity a strength.
But what of recent opinion polls showing the Conservative's on roughly 45% and Labour on or around the 25% mark. If the economy improves and less say a swing back of 7% from Tory to Labour was to happen, well we have a different ball game, all of a sudden the figure's would be reading 38 to 32 and then you have a fight on your hands and who knows what the outcome of a well run general election campaign would be.
The Labour Party must stand by their choice of leader, in fact the time to have challenged was last year and the opportunity for Labour to pick a new leader will certainly come about if they loose the next election. However if the Labour Party continue to display split's in public it won't matter who is leader the public will punish them at the poll's because this disloyal behaviour will only solidify support for David Cameron and his party.
Moreover the Labour Party must stand by their man, Gordon Brown. Photo credit: FCO Flickr Photo stream
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