Why Britain Needs a Labour Government

I awoke this morning from what Carl Jung might have called a "Big Dream", so first let me recount this - it was short ! - and then offer some interpretation.

Entering a glassy office, I ask to speak to "The Tower". "Don't call Him that !" responds the Secretary, who bears a passing resemblance to Yvette Cooper, Chief Financial Secretary to The Treasury. In a further glass office, rather smaller than that of his Secretary, but apparently with an external view, sits a gloomy looking man reading documents : it is Gordon Brown.

At this point, I awake feeling somewhat cheerful. My first thoughts are of "The Tower" card in the Tarot deck.

Students of The Cards will know that The Tower depicts two figures, a man and a woman, being thrown headlong from a tall structure apparently stuck by lightening (or reality !).

Now Ms Cooper and husband Balls remind me of that Northern couple whose husband faked his own death, and who later turned up at a police station in Southern England claiming to have no memory of anything that happened before the year 2000 : a problem incidentally common to New Labour policy makers, until recently anyway.

It also seems that Children's Secretary Mr Balls may have disappeared lately - too many difficult questions to answer ? - or he may just be on "Child Care" leave.

As for the gloomy figure of Mr Brown, he may have realised that Ms Cooper's Secretarial skills are no better than those of her husband; and, of course, she may claim at some later stage that she was bullied by both of them into pursuing the wrong policies. However, my impression is that for Mr Brown, at least, the grim light of reality has (at last) struck home.

So what's to be done ? Well, the first thing is to sack his Secretary. Sorry New Labour Ladies, but we need a change of Administration here ! Mr Brown also needs to sack her husband.

Next, Mr Brown needs to create a Labour Government, and if he is unwilling or unable to do this he needs to stand down as Prime Minister and Leader of his Party.

This Labour Government needs to radically "Cut the Crap !" ie thoroughly "Jargon-Bust" the Corridors of Power, and focus on policies which have real meaning to ordinary people. High amongst these must be measures to target growing wage inequality, including a radical cull of highly-paid (from the public purse) "Jobsworths" in favour of those who represent Real Labour.