Alan Johnson PM

[number 6]

Wont be long now.

[max_tranmere]

From postman to PM...

[andy at handiwork]

...and why not?

[number 6]

Would do a lot for labours fortunes,wouldn't save them from defeat at the next election but would definitely stop a landslide.

[dynatech]

Ah, Frank the Postman come to save the Labour Party!!
There are worse politicians - A LOT WORSE - but having met the man personally I found him to be more like a used car salesman - oily and insincere

[Jonesy]

Alan Johnson was obviously a great character in Peep Show, but I'm not too sure....a black PM?
Well, the Americans have one in charge, so why not!

[max_tranmere]

One year before Labour took office Alan Johnson, who was then head of the Postal Workers Union (having been a postie for many years himself) hand-delivered a petition to 10 Downing Street and was photographed outside with his pals as they all held banners. Then Labour wins, he becomes a minister, then a senior minister, now he might become PM. What a change in his life. If he does become PM, the photos of him and his leftie comrades banner-waving outside No.10 in 1996 will be shown across the world in order to show who he once was compared to what he later became.

[JonnyHungwell]

Maybe he'll be leader of the Labour Party - but he'll never make PM, seeing Labour won't be back in office for at least the next 12 years, once we manage to get rid of them.

[johnsix]

Well the way he caved in to a little light pressure about raising the public sector age of retirement to be in line with us poor sods who are paying for this largess, doesn't bode well when you need someone with something approaching a backbone to cut public expenditure.

I'll grant you, its a poison chalice for any politician.
Funny how old socialists always go on about equality but are more than happy to endorse this apartheid in pay and pensions enjoyed by the client state.

Sorry for the rant, I've had a bad week, I'm off to watch V for Vendetta again.!thumbsup!