"I couldn't imagine his timing was accidental"

An interesting post from Martin Bright over at the New Statesman.

He is talking about the article with Charles Clarke that has caused so much controversy this week.

He says of the article

We had a long-standing request with Mr Clarke for a piece about Labour's travails and he chose this moment to accept our offer. I shouldn't imagine his timing was accidental

. and of its content

His analysis of the uses and abuses of "Blairism" is sound. His description of the mood of the party is pretty accurate. But I would like to know what he means when he says that he and and others will not "permit" the disaster to happen. It also confirms we in my belief that Clarke and others who were sceptical about a Brown premiership should have put up a candidate last year.