The resignation of the junior ministers has damaged the party.

The disasterous resignation of several junior members of the Labour government has done alot of damage to the Labour Party, more so then Tony Blair carrying on would do.

The media coverage of the resignation and the unthinking, low ranking government ministers has given the impression that the Labour Party is split and bickering within itself, it does not help Labour and they haven't helped the Pary at all.

If people like Tom Watson want to look at what is "in the interest of either the party or the country" then they should look at what they have done today, of how they have made the Party look and what the damage will be, like it or not, Mr.Blair has been the most electorally sucessfull Prime Minister Labour has had (Policy wise though, I would argue that Mr.Attlee is the most Sucessful.)

I am sure that many party members feel like myself over this issue, and that is annoyance at those 8 for what they have done to the party, it is not helpful, it is not right and it is not how the Labour Party should be conducting itself over something as important as who, not only leads the Labour Party, but who leads Britain for the next 2 - 3 years and will fight for a 4th term for a Labour government, it makes the party looks too self-absorbed and self-obessed, about it not about policy or running the country, it makes Labour look unfit to govern.

The 8 that resigned are not only putting a fourth term Labour government at risk but they are also putting at risk victory for Scottish Labour in the Scottish Parliament elections, victory for Welsh Labour in the Welsh Assembly elections and victory for Labour in the local council elections, all of which may end up with voters punishing Labour for being disunited, for being too inward looking, if Labour looses those elections the blame can no-longer be balmed on Tony Blair, but on the actions of the junior ministers who today has resigned over the leadership issue, in an extremely irresponsible manner.

As anyone who has read my blog knows, I am no Blairite, far from it, however I don't think that any grassroots member of the Labour Party wants to see Tony Blair go in such a terrible manner and neither do I believe that voters want to see Tony Blair be booted out in this way, all the 8 have done is given an open goal to "Dangerous Driver" Cameron and Ming the Merciless, they have done nothing but bad for the Party.

For the sake of the Party and the British People, Labour needs to be united together, we do not need this petty in fighting, I do not believe this is a plot by Brown myself like many of the Blairites are trying to suggest, for their own selfish reasons, this is just 8 idiots making a bad descions, however the entire party no matter what their idealogical positions are, need to be united and need to stand together, shoulder to shoulder, because we are brothers and sisters within this great movement, comrades in arms, and we must never forget that, I didn't think that we were like the Tory Party, that we didn't back bite and fight and plot against each other, however this sitution shows that is not no longer the case, and that this will be seen rightly or wrongly, as another example of the destructive nature of New Labour and how Blairism has damaged Labour.

For the sake of the Labour Party, for the sake of the future of Britain, the cabinet and every Labour MPs need to united behind the new leader whetever he or she is a Brownite or a Blairite, we need no more of this non-exisitant devision, there is no difference between Blair or Brown, only in the eyes of the Blairites is there a difference, however in the eyes of everyone else there is no real difference.

The Blairites need to unite behind Brown if he wins, for the sake of Labour, it is not, neither has been and nor will it ever will be The "Tony Blair" Party, and some Brownites need to understand that whatever plotting they maybe doing, is not helpfull for Gordon Brown nor the Labour Party as the whole.

Tony Blair must resign at the Party Conference or at least by the end of the year aswell, to avoid this sitution from carrying on any longer and to ensure that the Labour Party will be fighting fit for a possible 4th term victory. It would be for the good of the party and it might just help him be remembered better in the Labour Party as a leader who resigned for the sake of the party and not as a leader who hung on desperately as he went down and took down the Labour Party with him, and trhe Blairites must accept that his time as come and that for the sake of the Party they must pull together behind Gordon Brown, because the Party is bigger then one man, the Party is not the "Tony Blair" party it is bigger then one idealogy, it is not the "Blairite" Party, it is the LABOUR Party, and everyone in the Labour Party MUST remember that, otherwise, as a party, Labour is doomed.

Random Fact:


The London borough of Westminster has an average of 20 pieces of chewing gum for every square metre of pavement