Why Labour should have had an election

If Brown and Co had not handled it so badly they would have been able to have the election.

My reasons for an election now if the above had not occurred:

• The economy. It probably will get worse next year.


• House prices. Outside London they are dropping.


• Personal debt. It is massive and would not be helped by a downturn.


• Tax. It is annoying people.


• 10 years in power. People want change and having given Brown a chance people will say enough is enough in 2009.


• Europe. This issue is now plaguing Labour and not the Tories. What a reverse.


• Tories are on the rise. The Labour Cabinet is not what is was. The best have moved on.


• The majority gave Brown a cusion that cold afford a few slip ups and still deliver victory.

I understand that there are several reasons not to go:

• The winter.


• The recent polls.


• EU Treaty.


• Electoral registor.


• Scotland.


• Tory resurgance.

But they do not outweigh the positives in my opinion. Clearly Brown has not come to the same conclusion but I tend to agree with Steve Richards of The Independent who is accusing Brown of having made a "colossal mistake". Brown will be accused of bottling it and although he will shrug off the short term strom it will haunt Brown and Labour in 2 years time. The Labour party will be down about this. They have been marched up the hill and now marched down in the face of a resurgent Tory party. The Labour supporters heads dropping is good news and hard to reverse. They will start to think that maybe they are on the ebb. I hope and believe they are right about that.