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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

They're doomed. Doomed.

May 5, 2008 24:00
1 min read

Sorry I've not been able to post since Friday.

Albeit unintentionally, I've had to look at the election results with some distance. To state the obvious: it's an unmitigated disaster for Labour. Worse, it's not Labour per se which has been clobbered: it's Gordon Brown.

Those of us who long argued that, pace Meghnad Desai, Brown was put on the earth to show how good Tony Blair was, can say 'I told you so'. But that doesn't get anyone very far. What's striking now is that the evidence is clear, overwhelming even. Brown is unelectable, and so long as Labour sticks with him it is finished. Over. Buried.