Labour will die of it's cancer, Gordon Brown

Despite the best attempts of a handful of brave souls who have belatedly recognised that Gordon Brown is not a leader but a egotistical loser, it would seem that the Labour Party is overrun with cowards desperate to cling on to their pay cheque rather than doing the right thing by their party and putting Gordon Brown - and themselves - out of his misery.
When James Purnell expressed in his resignation letter that his loyalty to his party was greater than he felt he could offer to an individual personality, he probably acted in a fashion that those who truly are dedicated to their party should have considered, reflected upon and then followed.
Yet despite the glaringly obvious verdict of the British people in the local elections - where Labour has been completely wiped out - the Parliamentary Labour Party is still too cowardly to cut out the cancer at it's heart - Gordon Brown.
The self serving cowardice eroding the likelihood of Labour's very survival is epitomised by the actions of Caroline Flint. Ultra loyal and vociferous backer of Brown last night, she turned lipstick assassin at 6pm today - by which time it was clear that she had no role in Brown's reshuffled cabinet. Even then, Labour MPs proved their cowardice and failed to take yet another cue. They failed to take it when Hazel Blears lent a hand, they failed to do it when James Purnell went nuclear, and they failed to do it again for Flint.
While those on the backbenches with eyes to see dithered in a rudderless indecisiveness, Brown outmaneuvered them by announcing his self-reshuffled Cabinet. While Darling and Milliband were risks too far for Brown to have the courage to shift, those who he did appoint raise questions about democracy.
Cabinet ministers now include the twice disgraced Peter Mandelson, the peer Glenys Kinnock, Peter Hain who returns already and, we learn, Alan Sugar will join the line-up.
The very irony that an unelected Prime Minister - not by the public, not by the party - is again to make someone a peer in order to have an unelected individual in the Cabinet makes an utter sham of democracy that the British public will note and not forget. It was done once with Mandelson, it's now twice with Alan Sugar.
Of the other additions is Glenys Kinnock - a rampant Europe lover whose views on the superstate are massively out of line with British public opinion.
The new look Cabinet is part zombie, part insult to democracy.
In all likelihood, the Labour Party will continue to fail to act to remove Gordon Brown, despite him being the cancer that will kill their party. It is death by a million small cuts with no-one capable of injecting the essential act of mercy.
The local elections show Labour being trounced by a fairly policy-lite Conservative Party. Yet the Conservatives do not need a policy - they just need to not be the Labour Party. That's all they now need to do - so despised are the governing party, and they will find it impossible to rebuild bridges with the British public while their egotistical leader remains defiantly at the helm.
When the British people finally get a say in a General Election, Labour will get the most ferocious drubbing from the public that it is possible to conceive. Across the board, this blinkered and dictatorial regime has alienated and angered the population. In order to prevent the very party from becoming extinct in a couple of years from now, the Labour Party has one final opportunity to keep itself alive - to cut out the cancer at it's heart. That cancer is Gordon Brown.
True, under a new leader, they will still lose the next General Election - and deservedly so. But the cowardly self-serving MPs besmirching Labour's proud traditions are too self-serving to see the choice - have a Labour Party that is critically ill or to keep their cancer and have their plight become something terminal.