Labour's 1066

Labour's 1066!

That was the number of votes the party governing Britain today achieved at the Battle of Henley. Will it be Labour's Battle of Hastings? With one in the eye for Gordon Brown, will it be fatal? Probably not. I am sure there are few Labour hopefuls who want to be the leader that takes them to defeat at a General Election so Gordon Brown is safe for now.

But for Labour to receive less votes than the Green Party, or the British National Party, and to come fifth is not just a defeat it is one of those sea changes that take place. People want something different. Perhaps there should be a constitutional bar on Prime Ministers serving more than 8 years. Time and time again we have seen that good leaders fail, not just themselves, but their party and their country when they are in office too long. Such a bar might lead to an end of the unseemly internal struggles for power that the public find so distasteful.