Things must be looking pretty grim for Brown when even Polly Toynbee openly despairs
Slightly corny perhaps, but a better metaphor for Brown might be the once mighty battleship Bismarck, attacked by feeble World War 1 biplanes, torpedoed below the waterline, and now sailing round in circles rudderless and helpless while enemy ships assemble and start firing salvo after salvo ..
But a flaw of that comparison is that Bismarck was supremely fit for its purpose before being trapped, whereas McDoom was only ever any good at blowing other peoples' money.
In free fall without a parachute, unassisted suicide, accelerating the wrong way down a motorway – the death metaphors are flowing in a dark torrent of despair from Labour MPs. What made Gordon Brown hurl himself on that row of Gurkha kukri knives? Drowning at 19% behind in the latest polls, few think the party will come up for air a third time. That YouTube *grinning death's head is now a worldwide comic hit, while in the flesh the man looks more battered and hunted with each passing day. He suffers from tone *deafness to everything. ..
But a flaw of that comparison is that Bismarck was supremely fit for its purpose before being trapped, whereas McDoom was only ever any good at blowing other peoples' money.
