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| The choice of Gordon Brown was not random.
When the Labour party were devising a strategy to beat the Conservatives back in the nineties they agreed that Blair would be Prime Minister for a while and that he would then give way and let Brown be Prime Minister for a while. This was why Brown agreed to let Blair take over as the leader. But once Blair got into power his memory suddenly became very hazy about the actual terms of the agreed change of power and he kept dragging his feet and hanging around when Brown and the Brownites wanted Blair to go and let Brown take over, as agreed. They finally managed to get him out by threatening to resign en masse, so Blair left and Brown took over as agreed but years later than expected. Anybody in their right mind could see that Brown was a liability but most members of the Labour government seem to be not very bright.
I predict a contest for the leadership of the Labour party before the next election.
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