Blow to Gordon Brown

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World news analyst Jesús Torquemada. Photo: EITB

Gordon Brown does not know how to preserve the political heritage Tony Blair left him. Although Blair was very much criticised for invading Iraq together with Bush, the truth is that he won last election with a majority of more than 60 members of parliament. And when he retired last year and was replaced by Brown, keeping a pact they had which each other, he left that majority to Brown.

Thanks to that majority, Gordon Brown can continue governing until 2010. However, yesterday’s local election in England and Wales have shown that both Brown and the Labour Party are living a bad moment.

Conservatives “robbed” many city councillors to the Labourists, and even the Liberal Democats won overthe Labourists in many places.

All this is due to the fact that Gordon Brown has not created an own style and he he has not achieved the popularity Blair once had.

The best opportunity Brown had to show his difference with Blair was to withdraw British soldiers from Iraq, but those soldiers are still there, although there are not as many now.

On the other hand, British economy, which was achieved its greatest splendor with Blair, is getting worse now. This does not help Brown to be more popular.

All this explains Labourists’s fall in municipal election, but it does not mean that Brown is obliged to resign; just the opposite, he will remain in power until 2010, because holding a parliamentary election now would be a “suicide”.