Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Yesterday, a lot of people woke up to ‘disturbing’ UK Labour news. Manish Sood, a rebellious Labour candidate in North West Norfolk launched a bombastic attack on Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Labour Party. He said Mr Brown is the “worst Prime Minister” in the history of Britain, barely two days to the general election on May 6.
He was said to be in bad terms with his party in Norfolk. The party is not 'empowered' to replace him before the election otherwise he might have been stopped from contesting the election tomorrow. He was tactical because he knew the party wouldn’t be able to do much about his utterances. Sood is free to express his opinion, isn’t he?
According to a BBC conversation, Sood wants the abolished capital punishment back; this is unrealistic although the last execution took place in 1964. The Human Rights Act 1998 (c.42) – (in force 2 October 2000 – present), abolished the death penalty although the death penalty had been abolished. The Human Rights Act 1998 as amended implemented the European Convention on Human Rights 1950.
The Act (section 21(5)) completely abolished the death penalty in the United Kingdom, effective on royal assent. Previously to this, the death penalty had already been abolished for murder, but it remained in force for certain military offences (although these provisions had not been used for several decades). (The death penalty for treason had already been abolished by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.)
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We need to move forward not backward. The argument should not be whether capital punishment could minimize crime but the fact that member states of the European Community are expected to incorporate international law into domestic law.
What lessons have we to learn from Sood’s ‘Judas Iscariot Approach’ in order to contribute to the downfall of the party he belongs to? Don’t underestimate anybody and when there are squabbles within the same party, it should be sorted out otherwise the aggrieved may get the wrong idea that the upper arm of the party supports the opposition.
On the other hand, it may have been better if Mr Brown had stepped down as the PM in 2009 in order to save the party when a majority of the party wanted him to. In 2008, *Joan Ryan and Siobhain McDonagh called for a Labour leadership contest. That was when Brown quickly sacked Ryan as his Special Representative to Cyprus and McDonagh was also sacked as the Assistant Whip. These are facts and weaknesses that Sood may have capitalized on. Brown intends to step down as PM if Labour loses tomorrow’s election. He became the Prime Minister in 2007 after Tony Blair resigned.
Sood blamed Labour for the economic problems in the country which is not realistic because of the recession. Brown is yet to get over last week’s 'Bigoted woman' slur. He was very angry with himself after the blunder, even though he apologized to pensioner and Labour supporter Gillian Duffy for making the hypocritical remark behind her back.
Some British people do not want too many European Union immigrants in the UK and Duffy wanted to know what the Labour Party would do to curb the influx. Brown did not like her 'immigration' comments. He forgot that he still had Sky microphones on him after talking with Duffy for sometime in a televised meeting. The recorded ‘backchat’ aka 'bigotgate' scandal was played to him on air.
*Former MP Joan Ryan is the Labour candidate for Enfield North and former MP Siobhain McDonagh is the Labour candidate for Mitcham and Morden.
Update: UK 2010 General Election Results
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Norfolk North West Conservative: Henry Bellingham
Enfield North Conservative: Nick de Bois
Mitcham and Morden Labour: Siobhain McDonagh
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