Brown's last, last, last, LAST chance

Brown lives to fight another day following the top secret meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday as Labour MPs chose to back him rather than sack him.

This was a mistake in my opinion, as I wrote on LabourList, but although I didn’t get my way, at least I generated 65 comments worth of debate. Half-decent debate too, not just YouTube “U r gay”.

I’m deeply concerned about dark forces moving within the cabinet, by which I mean Peter “Prince of Darkness” Mandelson, getting titles like “First Secretary of State without a proper brief (I.e. John Prescott was Deputy Prime Minister, so it made sense for him to have it.) It’s a very Vladimir Putin thing to do, secret bogus titles…

I could go into great detail, but this morning’s cartoons in the newspapers capture it perfectly.

A picture saves me writing 1000 words.

Then on Brown’s position (the perfect representation of my analysis):

And finally, I watching Prime Minister’s Questions, live for the first time in… ever.