Time for back me or sack me

Frankly, it is coming to the time when Labour needs to address the Gordon Brown problem whether to back him or sack him.Even the Tory leader has come to this conclusion interviewed in the Telegraph this morning.

So I say to the Labour Party, the Foreign Secretary and everyone included – make up your mind – back the guy or sack the guy. Behaving as you are for the moment is bad for the country.”

Andrew Rawnsley says that although the part is sick of him,they cannot find a Brutus and seemingly after Charles Clarke's intervention last week that seems the case.

One of the reasons why a Brutus cannot be found may be the fate of Brutus.For he was declared a murderer by the Emperor Octavian and after defeat at the second battle of Philipi he committed suicide.

Whatever happens the open warfare that has afflicted the Labour party must end quickly.Reports of fall outs between Balls and Miliband,the sniping of Darling and yesterday Harman are deflecting the party away form its task of governing the country.

Now it seems that it rests on his conference speech but as Rawnsley points out,

I doubt very much that it will be the speech of his life. There was nothing in his stolid address to Scottish business leaders last week that suggested Mr Brown has suddenly discovered the elixir of inspiration. He is 57. He has been thundering away at conferences for many years. He is neither going to forget how to deliver a platform speech nor is he going to learn how to make a sensationally better one.
He is unlikely to be catastrophically awful and is no more likely to be awesomely brilliant. He will do enough to get a ritual standing ovation from his party. He will not be able to deliver the transformative performance that is demanded if Labour is to have a hope of narrowing the 20-point poll advantage to the Conservatives.

So do we then wait until the possible disaster of the Glenroths by election?

Unfortunately as Rawnsley points out

Paralysed between fear of the consequences of moving against him and despair about carrying on with him, the Labour party is imprisoned in the worst of all worlds. It is clear that it ought to make a collective decision either to back its leader or to sack him. It is also clear that it is currently incapable of doing either.