I've always assumed that to become an MP, you need to be above average intelligence, have a modicum of common sense and have the ability to learn not to repeat mistakes.
The Labour MPs, who have been requesting nomination papers, don't seemed to have benefited by Labour's own mistakes in the 80's and the Tories, in the 90's.
Voters have never re-elected a governing party who is at war with itself. Neither have they voted for a party who have had a leadership election a year before a general election is due. A party, especially a party that is governing the country, simply cannot put into a place a proposal that is credible to the people in such a short time.
If these MPs reckon that Gordon Brown is such a bad leader, then they should have made this plain when Tony Blair left. Gordon Brown is not a bad leader. He is simply facing economic circumstances that Tony Blair never had to face. The irony is that most people, if they're honest, accept that Gordon Brown delivered Tony Blair's leadership a mightily improved economy, when he was Chancellor.
Mortgages and prices were low enough and stable enough for me to succeed in buying my flat.
I am as clearly convinced as it's possible to be, that this was because Labour was in power and not the Tories. Most of my success is my own, but Labour definitely helped me.
