Gordon Brown will come under even more pressure, if as expected the Labour party is decimated at the Local and European elections today - but will Labour ditch Brown?
Here is TT’s prediction for what happens next
1) The Labour vote collapses at European and Local Elections
2) The rumoured Labour back bench round robin ‘email of resignation’ is disclosed as a spoof
3) Cabinet ministers stay quiet because they realise Labour is sunk and better to wait till after the election to make their move
4) Hazel Blears keeps smiling
5) Peter Mandelson keeps being really scary
6) Brown carries on until June 2010 - because it suits both the Tories and the Labour Cabinet to have him slowly disintegrating.
UPDATE:23.39PM JUNE 4TH
James Purnell resigns!
James Purnell resigned tonight and has issued the following statement
“We both love the Labour Party. I have worked for it for 20 years and you for far longer. We know we owe it everything and it owes us nothing. I owe it to our party to say what I believe no matter how hard that may be. I now believe your continued leadership makes a Conservative victory more not less likely.
“The Party was here long before us, and we want it to be here long after we have gone. We must do the right thing by it.
“We need to show that we are prepared to fight to be a credible government and have the courage to offer an alternative future. I am therefore calling on you to stand aside to give our party a fighting chance of winning.”
Cast your predictions now for “Will Gordon Brown still be Prime Minister on August 1st 2009?”
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