Alan Johnson: There is no anti-Brown plot. Promise!

Alan Johnson denies plot to oust Brown, says The Guardian.

Two prime ministers in one year is plenty. Why would anyone want to oust Broon? Well, the article comes up with a few reasons:

Recent difficulties over ailing bank Northern Rock
Loss of child benefit computer discs
Unlawful donations to Labour

Oh yeah. Lots of new stuff in there. Still, Johnson assures himself, his party and us:

"Of course this is a story that people will look for. The reality is it's a united party. There are no such plots."
He conceded that events had not gone well for Labour since Brown's decision in October not to call a snap general election.
"It's not a good time for the Labour party and it's not a good time for our members," he said.
But he added: "It takes a certain individual who can be calm in the eye of the storm, and Gordon is calm in the eye of the storm.
"It's impossible to imagine a situation where your ratings will go up when a computer disc is lost with loads of bits of information on it, when we have the issue with Northern Rock, when we have this terrible issue around party funding..."

So, "it's not a good time" for quite a few people then. Oh. At least it's the weekend. There's Johnson on GMTV's The Sunday programme to look forward to!

Written by Westmonster on 7 Dec 2007 4:21 PM. Permalink