Gordon Brown - You've got mail - please go.

Sky have got hold of the email that's prepared to ask Gordon Brown to go. This comes after news that Blunkett has turned Brown down for a Cabinet position:

Dear Gordon,

Over the last 12 years in government, and before, you have made an enormous contribution to this country and to the Labour Party, and this is very widely acknowledged.

However we are writing now because we believe that in the current political situation, you can best serve the Labour Party and the country by stepping down as party leader and prime minister, and so allowing the party to choose a new leader to take us into the next general election.

Yours,

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David Blunkett hopes we will vote on local issues in May elections.

David Blunkett hopes we will vote on local issues in the May elections. Talking about the axing of the 10p tax rate on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, Blunkett said:

"In my particular patch it is felt very heavily, but I think people are still giving the government the benefit of the doubt and they will be voting on local issues, at least I pray they do."

I think that says it all really. Blunkett is hoping that the country will forget its current disillusionment with our Labour Government when voting in the Local elections in May. I'm sure there are a good number of Labour councillors who are hoping for just that. To be honest it's not likely is it? We are fed up with Gordon Brown and his incompetent government and that will be reflected in a disastrous day for Labour Councils.