The Collapsification

I sit across from a work colleague PK, who heads the Transport Technology Division of the company in which I work. A proud, traditional, middle-aged Scouser of the Everton supporting variety, a former teacher and speaker of four European languages (five if you count Liverpudlian)

PK has in moment of great excitement (whether at or outside of the Coach and Horse) come up with his own special vocabulary geared towards describing an extreme state of affairs, an example and my favourite being the term- "Collapsification" which he uses to describe an almost total disintegration of cohesion, structure or stature, last used to describe the England performance against Croatia.

No other word better describes the recent near annihilation of the Labour Party since the ascension of Gordon Brown.

There are many theories within and outside the Labour Party as to how things have to come to the present pass. Here are a few theories:

a. Upon the exit of Tony Blair, Labour has been deprived of its valuable, sleek information management machine, hence the present debacle being more a question of Info management, since there did not appear to be much worse happening than in the past (with the exception of the HMRC Disc scandal);

b. Gordon Brown’s structure is more geared towards open honest resolution of issues, hence the presentation of facts is geared more towards clarity and propriety than political info-manipulation;

c. There is a vacuum of crisis management leadership within the party; hence the seeming lack of ability to deal with the crisis of confidence within the party and the serious national image–disasters the Party seems to be stumbling into one after the other.

d. A genuine and serious lack of direction, initiative and vision within the party leadership, engendered by dictatorial control by Gordon Brown of practically all decision-making vehicles.

My sincere view is that there is a little of all of the above, which is probably Karma for Labour, which has itself to blame for throwing away the goodwill it enjoyed from the British people. There is no doubt that a lot of the difficulties faced by Labour were inherited from Tony Blair, however that is purely academic, leadership involves taking responsibility for stewardship a choice which was palpably clear to Gordon, who actively sought the position.

The sad thing is that Britain is on the road to returning the Tories back into Government, for this the Tories should not be commended but Labour should take responsibility- rather sadly in my view- for having betrayed the hopes of the country.

Cameron says call me Dave, well perhaps we'd better call him Sir or Prime Minister.

Ps/ Just gotten details on the David Abrahams donation disaster, goodness, even Frank Spencer couldn't possibly manage Labour's recent propensity for self-destruction!!