Daylight robbery is rife in Britain once again.

In the run up to the General Election #GE10 it has become apparent that the Business Secretary’s contempt for charitable organisations has reached new lows as he robs charities to claw money back the for reckless spending machine that is the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP).

Last month Lord Mandelson decided to remove an exemption for charities from music licensing rules which quite simply means that from April 2010 those organisations will have to choose between paying large bills if they hold events with recorded music or do without the music completely.

By law all retail outlets are bound by the Performing Rights Society (PRS) representing composers and songwriters, there is no exemption for charities.

However, a large majority of these organisations must also purchase a licence from Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) representing performers and record companies. Currently there are two small clauses in the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (Sections 67 and 72) that exempt charities from this requirement.

Lord Mandelson has decided to remove this exemption following a public consultation by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) ensuring this is in place for April this year. Is this another sign that #GE10 will be in March?

Let’s consider a few areas this affects so we can see just how bloody silly this really is. A charity shop with music in the background would be forced to pay. Carnival floats that play music would be forced to pay. A carer’s association or nursery playing music to entertain the children would be forced to pay.

Think it’s wrong? You know where to put your X on polling day at #GE10.

• In case you missed Comical Ali(stair) yesterday: http://bit.ly/7NG4RI #ge10 #labourlost #labourout #labourout2010 #
• #labourlost update: Comical Ali(stair) or Jack The Knife to strike first? http://ow.ly/16jdEq #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: Gordon Brown will tell the PLP "WE CAN WIN #GE10". The PLP should tell Gordon Brown "NOT WITH YOU AT THE HELM MATE" #
• RT @Man_in_a_Shed: #LabourLost as Peter Watt's revelations about Gordon Brown in No10 are todays must read http://tinyurl.com/yewelum #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: #Brown clings on to #Labour power by his finger tips, Why spring #election,why not #winter #election?? #Labour #UKploitics #
• RT @philipcmeyer: Brown's given up. Now he's just having fun. Stream of Consciousness blogpost http://tinyurl.com/ykz5z66 #GE10 #Brownfall #
• RT @LabourOut2010: @LabourList 'Day of Action' a tad late after @labour have taken Little/no Action that has helped the UK in 13 years! #
• RT @firebird2110: RT @Andrew_GwynneMP: Gove's-views on education are scary!<like "it's not for us to second guess the decisions of parents"? #
• RT @Lilemor1: RT @badassday: Miliband praises Brown as "a man of enormous strengths" WTF?! you could not make this shit up….. #labourlost #
• RT @measured: If you didn't previously know the meaning of Scot free, you should be working it out now. *Gordon Brown* #labourlost #
• RT @firebird2110: Children Schools & Families bill – if you watched the 2nd reading and would still vote Labour you have no brain OR soul #
• RT @firebird2110: Just a bunch of religious nutjobs & far right extremists then? http://tinyurl.com/yhkn94s TypicalLabour lies/smear tactics #
• RT @firebird2110: RT @naomilever: Worrying that EdBalls can't answer this question correctly.Which of these is a minority? (a)93% or (b)7% #
• RT @firebird2110: RT @Brownthorn: Balls defends HE plan http://tinyurl.com/ybkcg28 incapable of listening to anything other than his own ego #
• #pmqs David Cameron to go on the Balls attack? He does like to taunt the little bully #
• RT @GordonMustGo: I am not disturbed, obsessive or deluded. I have saved the world once, I can do it again. #backingyb #labourout #GE10 #
• "we run down the tory debt" says Brown utter tosh #
• Cameron on form #pmqs #
• find some courage says Cameron #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: New Blog Post: Election what election? http://bit.ly/7nqAWv #labourlost #ge10 #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: New Blog Post: May 6th? Don't count on it http://bit.ly/5INTqh #ge10 #labourlost #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: #Class war? #UK #Labour still talk like we are all still stuck in the 1950's?? Flat caps verses bowler hats?? #GE10 #BBCqt #
• Thank you EVERYONE who uses either the #labourlost #getlabourout #ttot #labourout #labourout2010 #ge10 #
• So, Gordon, Mandy wrote your middle-class speech. Why would middle-class be conned by you any more? #ttot #labourlost #
• RT @DeclanLyons: Gordon should realise the middle classes aren't going to vote Labour for a good few years. #timeforchange #labourlost #
• RT @PeteMoring: @LabourLost Gordon, Mandy wrote your middle-class speech. Why would Middle/ANY class Bconned by U any more? #ttot @UKCCsblog #
• RT @jonboyes: So Gordon is going to reinvent Labour to appeal to 'middle classes'?! Remember folks, L is for Labour L is for Lies #labourout #
• @eljmayes THANK YOU KINDLY FOR THE #FF IT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED in reply to eljmayes #
• You mean you had to pay for that? RT @HouseofTwits: RT @SadiqKhan Listening to Peter Mandelson in Great Hall. Excellent value as ever… #
• RT @eljmayes: Brown's new "Middle Class" vote winning strategy is crazy given his raid on pension funds and NI increase in past and future. #
• @tomcallow My, we are such a rude individual aren't we? in reply to tomcallow #
• RT @VEE6: @LabourLost Brown is a crook stole much money from me on basis that I'd saved it. Hence I now work abroad>>Vote Brown get screwed #
• RT @OxfordSpring: Fellow Conservatives: a moment for our fallen comrade @ByrneTofferings >>Whoa, haven't heard it from the horses mouth #
• RT @VEE6: @LabourLost I would never vote Labour, new or old. That's why I got screwed. #
• RT @ByrneTofferings: That's it.. I'm joining the Labour Party. (Word of advice Tom.. log out of twitter)>Thispost will be used in evidence #
• @Robert_J_M_T The premise is you make a recommendation with #ff or #followfriday & your followers choose whether to follow the tweep or not in reply to Robert_J_M_T #
• RT @VEE6: It's taken me all day to realize I've been sitting here getting quietly pissed!>>Top form #
• @tomcallow show the illegality…and your apology is accepted in reply to tomcallow #
• RT @dizzy_thinks: Blogpost: Gordon's Council Tax Bombshell coming on June 1st http://bit.ly/7MOBHi >>#labourlost the plot years ago #
• RT @Agnieszkat: @LabourLost I still think the Labour party has a couple of good ideas but this is not enough to win the Election #labourlost #
• @tomcallow don't talk such rot. Only the PM is guilty of 'hiding' things 'til post #GE10. Comical how you think Opposition has such power in reply to tomcallow #
• RT @Man_in_a_Shed: #LabourLost as it doesn't know how to govern http://bit.ly/7blUJg . Shocking stuff. #

First published yesterday on the Parlez~me~’n~Tory blog.

In true panto spirit Alistair Darling today announced something more akin to the truth that faces this country.

Ministry Of Misinformation representative pictured adjacent to Comical Ali(stair)

Seems that even today Gordon Brown has a problem with the ‘C’ word. Call that election Gordon and you’ll know what a job cut really is.

With deepest thanks to AngryOfCroydon for this contribution.

LabourLost can only agree with every word of the above.

• RT @measured: Brown made so many mistakes as Chancellor hoisted by his own petard & STILL lacks respect for the markets. #debt #LabourOutNOW #
• RT @LabourOut2010: #in2010 if #labour maintain power in the #ge10 then we are doomed as a nation! The UK will become bankrupt! #labourout #
• RT @LabourOut2010: Oh yes he drove average workers to bankrupt, crippled public finances don't worry bankers are living it up! #labourout #
• RT @LabourOut2010: Hold on Hold on If Gordon says that once more I'll kick the TV and now his hands and fingers are waving! #labourout #
• RT @LabourOut2010: Put Brown & Cab Ministers in Big Brother, kills 2 birds with one stone, Improve ratings & no where for gov to hide!!! #
• RT @LabourOut2010: Brown playing politics on terrorism after admits not spoken to Obama since Xmas http://bit.ly/8AnUhO via @MailOnline #
• #labourlost update: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-03 – RT @jolyonwagg1: RT @SimonMagus #Economy screwed #publi… http://ow.ly/16gaqU #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: Labour MP's concerned TonyBlair could have a negative effect on their chances at #GE10. Try looking closer to home guys #
• RT @concerneduk: @angelneptustar PM, proof of Alien Life/Parallel Universe if ever I seen it! ..not from this planet! #labourlost #labourout #
• What? RT @softmutt: @CllrRichardLowe Hear hear. I'm happy to throw insults when called for, but getting out of hand! #labourout #labourlost #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: RT @eljmayes: @Parlez_me_nTory it's @BeatBalls. Quite memorable;).>>That's it, let's get those Balls some more exposure #
• RT @ToryAardvark: RT @LabourOut2010: http://bit.ly/4vNWVs Half of what GB said on Marr was made up. My point exactly in this article. #
• Don't forget #labourlost RT @simonwhelband: @chrisjw133 most commonly used hashtags I will use in coming months #GE10 and #labourout #
• Still no snow in #somertonandfrome #
• RT @firebird2110: Govt spending our money hiring comedians, real ones this time…right about 1 thing #itsnojoke http://twurl.nl/21dcxc #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: @LabourLost Popular #hashtags for the coming months running up to #UK #election – #labourlost #GE10 #labourout #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: #Darling criticizes #Tory spending, #Labours #economic plans upside down http://bit.ly/86ZiHU #GE10 #LabourLost #LabourOut #
• RT @GordonMustGo: #labourlost #GE10 #labourout wish I hadn't said 'British jobs for British workers' 30,000 migrant IT workers arrive in UK. #
• RT @GordonMustGo: #labourlost #GE10 #labourout I'm much happier with OldLabour ideologies, everyone should be equal in poverty and suffering #
• RT @GetLabourOut: RT @JohnPrescott Dir of BBC News admits TaxPayers'Alliance not impartial<obviously JP thinks BBC are impartial #LabourLost #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: #JohnPrescott doesn't like #TaxPayers #Alliance? Why? cos in his dream #socialist #state we all pay high #taxes #Labourlost #
• RT @ToryAardvark: Sovereign Debt Crisis Threat to the UK http://wp.me/pE1rC-19b #gordonbrown #labour #labourout #
• RT @ToryAardvark: Minister set to resign from the Cabinet….BREAKING NEWS…..http://wp.me/pE1rC-19F #labour #gordonbrown #newlabour #
• Oh dear, football managers curse. "Gordon has my full support" says Tessa #labourout #labourlost #ge10 #gobro #
• RT @ToryLandlord: A bottled coup is perfect for the Tories. Damages Brown but doesn't get rid of him. #labourlost #ge10 #
• @eljmayes Will they ever vote for Gordon? Have they ever? #ge10 #labourlost #labourout #
• RT @softmutt: @timrollpickerin Yes… & ignore the kerry out stuff. It's all got out of hand & gone too far. #labourout #labourlost I say. #
• RT @eljmayes: @LabourLost True- it's the old football managers cliche when he is about to get the sack, "the board are right behind him";). #
• RT @measured: BBC News: Why does the man standing outside HM The Treasury wear a flourescent jacket? To make him a target? #labourlost #
• RT @concerneduk: This account will stay in standby now 'til after @Labour lose the #ge10 follow me at @LabourOut2010 #labourout #labourlost #
• RT @GetLabourOut: Breaking News: Labour now blame Tories for weather http://bit.ly/4DJ3f5 #uksnow #labourlost Next up, Pope is Catholic? #
• RT @jonboyes: RT @FredChukkawakka: Gordon Brown ‘using public money to spread the Labour word’ http://bit.ly/6Nnivz <<more #Labourlost waste #
• >>Bedtime story of utter nonsense #labourlost RT @bencooper86: Beware Inheritance Tax scaremongering: http://bit.ly/6tP8X2 #
• @CliveAndrews @GetLabourOut Hardly desperate. Are you the RT police? in reply to CliveAndrews #
• @CliveAndrews Not at all, @CliveAndrews happens each way from each side it is what keeps ppl smiling in what is a long drawn out campaign in reply to CliveAndrews #
• @CliveAndrews Amen to that Sir in reply to CliveAndrews #
• This is good enough for @JULIANBRAY to holiday on http://bit.ly/4yJPFN #
• Delaying your RT's until later to maximise pain ;o) #brownfall #labourout #labourout2010 #labourlost #ge10 #brownfail #
• @BenCooper86 Incorrect.What I referred to though was how the article dismisses any Labour failings with a pinch of salt, that's a IHT #fail in reply to BenCooper86 #
• @BenCooper86 The article (not in front of me right now) admits what is in now is not great and not fair then dismisses it out of hand in reply to BenCooper86 #
• @BenCooper86 Talking of unfair, is it 'fair' to call the Tory policy a tax cut for millionaires? in reply to BenCooper86 #
• @BenCooper86 Clearly we see different things with differing views and that is permissable. Where are your views on Hoon and Hewitt? in reply to BenCooper86 #
• @BenCooper86 That's a fair choice of wording in reply to BenCooper86 #
• RT @badassday: Labour has such contempt for UK & 4 Parliament they're seriously considering ANOTHER unelected pass-the-parcel PM #labourlost #
• get the message? I don't want to bore you with them all but suffice to say #brownfail #ge10 #labourour #labourout2010 #labourlost #
• RT @benjaminglass: Good to see some people in the Labour party have a pair. Brown is not liked by his own party or the country #brownfail #
• RT @LouiseBagshawe: For pity's sake, Labour, stop squabbling long enough to call an election. The country deserves better. #ferrets #ge10 #
• RT @jacobwilkinson: RT @Parlez_me_nTory: IF PM "needs to get on with sorting out this country" wtf have the PLP been doing since 1997? #
• RT @Caroleharry: Interesting that Ed Milliband appears to have spoken on David Millibands behalf. Hmmmm. #labourlost>>Spoken and supported #
• Quote of the day RT @Caroleharry: So another entertaining episode of Yes, Prime Minister is drawing to a close. #labourlost #
• RT @LouiseBagshawe: Alex Smith, LabourList, says on Sky Brown should have gone last June but nobody's good enough to replace! #Gameoff #GE10 #
• RT @eljmayes: Excellent performance by @torybear on @SkyNews tonight, calling for #Labour to get the election out the way ASAP: #labourlost #
• RT @guidofawkes: @torybear just killed @labourlist on @skynews AlexSmith ended up saying he too wanted Gordon gone-some defence. @labourlost #
• @DannyHackett erm, give me a clue in reply to DannyHackett #
• @DannyHackett If you refer to a lot of RT's read afternoon tweet and read the premise behind @LabourLost in reply to DannyHackett #
• @DannyHackett Currently I am politically agnostic. No vengeance just justice for the bankrupt country in reply to DannyHackett #
• @DannyHackett that is fair enough and good on you for getting out there during such a time. May I ask why you wish to keep #labour? in reply to DannyHackett #
• @DannyHackett do you think the country was in a worse state in '97 than 2010? in reply to DannyHackett #
• RT @philipcmeyer: For God's sake, Gordon, take the hint!! Stream of Consciousness http://tinyurl.com/ykz5z66 #ge10 #brownfall #labourlost #
• Pressa has posted a vid on goforth and multiply site attacking coup makers #
• @DannyHackett A fair call but is it all due to the cc? in reply to DannyHackett #
• @DannyHackett totally agree, Blair did know when to leave in reply to DannyHackett #
• Love the thought RT @fullabeanz: Labour couldn't even organise a coup in Bolivia. http://bit.ly/5cCJaQ #brownfall #labourfail #labourlost #
• The real reason why Geoff Hoon got it so wrong, the plot unfolds http://bit.ly/4xPXuW #ge10 #labourlost #
• RT @houseoftwits: RT @Parlez_me_nTory "credit crunch cos of Tory policies & Brown saved world" says Desmon on 5live, fool #labourlost #ge10 #
• RT @softmutt: RT @Parlez_me_nTory: Description of PM yesterday by mild mannered & considerate @BevaniteEllie "what a guy!" says it all #
• RT @LouiseBagshawe: NickRobinson said that one of Spineless Six compared Brown privately to him to Michael Foot! #Ferrets #Labourlost #GE10 #
• RT @jacobwilkinson: Are we seeing another 'Bastards in the Cabinet' scenario? Rumblings but no one with the guts to come forward #Labourlost #
• RT @Simpsdj: RT @Parlez_me_nTory: Why does anyone think the Brown coups are unfair when Brown ousted Blair in exactly the same way #ge10 #
• RT @GetLabourOut: Glad to see Labour has it's priorities right & seems more concerned over an airbrushed poster than running the country!! #
• Looking for something good to read this year? http://dungeekin.blogspot.com #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: RT @AliBulger: http://bit.ly/8qkqDf Game-changing day in SW1 village #labourlost #
• RT @MyLifeInCumbria: reassure residents that Council-owned car parks are gritted http://bit.ly/8kWQad via @allerdale I'd rathe roads done #
• RT @doncollier: With only 129 sigs in 20hrs lab activists clearly not keen to support GB http://tinyurl.com/ygnqoo8 #labourlost @EricPickles #
• RT @GetLabourOut: @iaindale has shown Jack Straw's son's site is more "Left Foot in Mouth" than Left Foot Forward http://bit.ly/88kCmB #
• RT @GetLabourOut: Labour come out fighting the right way http://bit.ly/67DJm5 Just waiting for them to produce one of their OWN figures #
• RT @measured: How can councils' salt/grit stocks be made so bureaucratic? Reports, recommendations where does buck stop? #labourlost #fail #
• @GetLabourOut @eljmayes @dungeekin @caroleharry @torybear @Simpsdj @JULIANBRAY PLease #ff these Tweeps @jonboyes @jolyonwagg1 @fullabeanz #
• RT @d0od: election lost. overheard woman on bus: "What is Brown doing about the snow?. My Sally (dog) non-stop shivers all day." #labourlost #
• RT @LabourOut2010: Unions are propping up the Labour Party http://bit.ly/6Dej74 via @libcon not with my £'s I opted out of the payment. #
• RT @mtcomp: I wonder if proletariat would have had the same charges dropped as Harman? http://bit.ly/5KofFY #LabourLost /via @GetLabourOut #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: Not felt this positive about Politics since getting off that charge of calling a British rail worker a MerchantBanker #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: I told you it was going to get dirty http://bit.ly/7RRWvE this is cheap, pathetic and typical of a #labourlost campaign #
• So, clifford Singer is the fool behind the Cameron site, fool. Clifford Singer runs the Other TaxPayers' Alliance & Bubblewrapped websites. #
• RT @LabourOut2010: RT @davidjonesmp Gordon in la-la land http://wp.me/pp9X1-1aA he's happy there his one man crusade to save the world! #
• RT @benjaminglass: Labour investment versus Tory cuts – somebody somewhere is being economical with the truth? http://tinyurl.com/yblvhwl #
• RT @eljmayes: RT @torybear Watt stuff is explosive: http://bit.ly/5rM8jb < I would say highly corrosive on Brown's leadership #LabourLost #
• RT @ToryAardvark: The End of the road for Darling http://wp.me/pE1rC-1ct #labour #labourlost #gordonbrown #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: Shambles at No10 – New call to oust #Brown, #UK #PM http://bit.ly/4MTVuY < Roll on UK Spring #Election. #GE10 #Labour #Tory #
• RT @pavdhande: #labourlost when WWII veterans can only have their heating on for two hours a day… in this weather… #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: #UK -Toughest #spending #cuts loom in over 20 years says #Labour #Chancellor http://bit.ly/8F0RG3 #UKpolitics #Election #GE #
• RT @ToryAardvark: 27th June 2007 Brown Becomes Prime Mentalist And The Country Sinks Into The Abyss http://wp.me/pE1rC-rN #labourout #gordon #
• RT @ToryAardvark: Gordon Brown Repeatedly Blocked Purchase Of Life Saving Equipment For Our Troops: http://wp.me/pE1rC-1cW #labourout #
• RT @ToryAardvark: Gordon Brown and Labour cannot be trusted with our Armed Forces http://wp.me/pE1rC-1cW #labourout #armedforces #gordon #
• RT @JULIANBRAY: @LabourLost cos Brown is serially blinkered and way out of his depth now screwing up rock salt production wake up people|! #

• RT @jolyonwagg1: RT @SimonMagus #Economy screwed #public #finances shafted and #labourlost wants to talk about #foxhunting. Pathetic #Labour #
• RT @firebird2110: Brown taking advice from Balls not Mandy has got to be good news, promising a crushing GE defeat! http://bit.ly/4KD1gs #
• RT @firebird2110: DCSF told to save £350m http://bit.ly/6pGqd0 gives £2.6m to council to build playgrounds http://bit.ly/6BEvaC #LabourLOST #
• RT @firebird2110: RT @ThinkPolitics: Party leaders will hope 2 use TV face-offs 2 play 2 their strengths http://tiny.cc/VgEes <- GB has one? #
• RT @WicksieSnr: RT @Parlez_me_nTory: Prepare for 26th March 2010 and Gordon Brown trying to explain a protest vote too far. It's simple #
• RT @ToryDoc: @dooobeee cameron said in his speach he'll keep min wage, and maintain Inc spend on NHS, more than what Labour have promised #
• RT @ToryDoc: @dooobeee diverting from the question are we?!? Did you or did you not just lie about what Cameron said #labourspin #labourfail #
• RT @ToryDoc: @dooobeee Errr, no, that was never DC's response. #labourlies in another dirty campaign. clearly #labourlost with another #
• Guess what? We're back! Thank you all for using the #labourlost tag during Christmas, off to find out what @ToryStories is all about #
• @Man_in_a_Shed Is It? If so, cool, TKS for the link. Interestingly enough I actually thought it was aptly named @ToyStory then realised…. in reply to Man_in_a_Shed #
• Wow, regarding @ToryStories , there's some fake hatred on there. Flippin 'eck #labourlost #
• Official endorsement? RT @edballsmp: Jon Cruddas and @ChukaUmunna exposing what Tories in power locally are up to http://bit.ly/585JHF #
• #labourlost update: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27 – #labourlost update: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-… http://ow.ly/16dV5V #
• RT @WicksieSnr: RT @TimMontgomerie: Labour Lord Mayor denied knighthood http://bit.ly/7roJgo did not toe the party line must go #LabourLost #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: #Labour stuck in flat cap verses toff #class war? Its 21st not 19th #century?? http://bit.ly/6zI5TI #Labourlost #election #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: I may update my September blog re: Jon Cruddas MP http://bit.ly/4U50V1 following the laughable @ToryStories #labourlost #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: #Labour still stuck in flat cap verses toff #class war? Its 21st not the 19th #century http://bit.ly/6zI5TI #election #
• RT @firebird2110: Iwondering why #labourlost tweeters are giving so much air-time to blog posts from a wet behind the ears kid>>Which post? #
• RT @philipcmeyer: Stream of Consciousness, my new blogsite, Justice & The Law. Are they Strangers? http://tinyurl.com/yfv4vbd #labourlost #
• RT @firebird2110: wondering why #labourlost tweeters are giving so much air-time>>'tis ok, worked out what you mean #
• RT @Benjaminglass: @NadineDorriesMP @toryrascal Great interview indeed, very insightful and honest. #
• RT @Man_in_a_Shed: #LabourLost as we have just had the worse decade for growth since WWII http://tinyurl.com/yb5a5gq #
• Please read RT @jillvegan: @LabourLost Yep! Here's a poem for youhttp://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/NewYearPoem.pdf #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: RT @wicksie: RT @TelePolitics: http://bit.ly/81fnoY >>Decade of shared properity and the best start for our children? #
• RT @LutineBelle: If it's so simple Gordon Brown, why are we in such a mess now & why did you not embark on this before? http://bit.ly/5n7xwR #
• RT @WicksieSnr: RT @JULIANBRAY: Daft! Bottled Beer is CHEAPER in UK supermarkets than bottled water& they wonder why our youth get plastered #
• RT @toryrascal: RT @firebird2110: RT @pete_darby: Ed Balls gone to the panto? Hey Ed, where's your political career? IT'S BEHIND YOU! #
• RT @firebird2110: http://bit.ly/6Vcx1B the Tories don't need 2 buy power, Labour are giving it away 2 whoever can get you out of office! #
• New blog post: 5 yerars of lost finances, thank you Labour http://bit.ly/5HaOB0 #labourlost #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: Political misjudgement of '09: Brown accusing Cameron of politicising baby 'P' case in #pmqs then failing to apologise #
• @VEE6 Good ppl do good things, TY in reply to VEE6 #
• RT @Justanotherjack: RT @Parlez_me_nTory: RT @Justanotherjack: Gordon Brown has given up on Britain; Britain has given up on Gordon Brown #
• #labourlost update: 5 years of lost finances, thank you Labour http://ow.ly/16fmPv #
• RT @SammyDolton: #labourlost If you think times are bad now, just think how bad it will be under a Tory government.>>Hugely better squire! #
• RT @firebird2110: RT @kftnorman: Children denied childhood and adults treated as children. Two sides of same coin… http://bit.ly/6CB1MK #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: 1st day of the year and already looking fwd to #Labour getting kicked out of #office, and #tories form new #Gov. #GE10 #UK #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: RT @SamuelCoates: 1m ppl #died or #retired on #Incapacity #Benefit under #Labour http://j.mp/4uPsbV. #UK #GE10 #Politics #
• RT @jolyonwagg1: RT @GetLabourOut: #in2010 hopefully we'll see the back of Gordon #Brown & #cabinet. #Labourlost #GE10 #Politics #UK #Labour #
• RT @LabourOut2010: RT @GetLabourOut: #in2010 hopefully we'll see the back of Gordon #Brown & #cabinet. #Labourlost #GE10 #Politics #Labour #
• RT @firebird2110: RT @greenhousedani: Diversity in education is precious. PSE sign this letter: http://bit.ly/7j57QS #labourlost #education #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: Spin that @KerryMP @BevaniteEllie http://bit.ly/6PFwzt #GE10 #labourlost #
• RT @Parlez_me_nTory: RT @benjy6894: shocked that I'm going to be £40k in the red when he leaves university. How is that fair?>> #labourlost #
• RT @PeteMoring: @benjy6894 shocked that I'm going to be £40k in the red when he leaves uni- This may be why http://is.gd/5JuBx #labourlost #
• RT @Caroleharry: RT @jonboyes: @Pam_Nash I suspect @campbellclaret just bitter that the NuLab project is over. Last orders. Time for change #
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• RT @Pam_Nash: @ManMaun It's a really sad indictment -the Health Minister after the next election needs to be a lateral, and radical, thinker #
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First published by @Parlez_Me_nTory over at his blog.

The election campaign is already starting to get heated. Yes, those in the frame for Leader of the Labour Party are really stepping up a gear.

We all know it is General Election year #GE10 and the most likely date is 6th May, following a Budget full of empty promises of investment, prosperity and pay later schemes. But there is currently an election looming far sooner and far more meaningful for the Labour Party and potentially the country.

It is clearly understood that any leader of the Labour Party other than Gordon Brown following a coup would be able to narrow the Poll gap between themselves and the Conservative Party as the incumbent would inevitably enjoy the honeymoon period and the ‘bounce’ that goes with a personality change.

For months it was assumed that 26th March would be #GE10 thereby allowing the Government to avoid announcing any form of Budget but that would simply not allow enough time for the new leader to make the role his/her own.

Following a pre-Christmas party hosted by Charles Clarke the former Home Secretary and one of the most vocal anti-Brown campaigners it seems one output was to brief a series of coordinated press releases slamming the leadership of Gordon Brown and stating how better off the party and the country would be without him at the helm.

Briefings: Charles Clarke, Barry Sheerman, Greg Pope, Polly Toynbee

…the list of those present includes Parmjit Dhanda, Malcolm Wicks and Meg Munn

So then, who is the in the driving seat and who is set to star in the shake-up of the Labour party?

Or, are we to face yet another failed coup from a bunch of snipers who haven’t got the courage to do anything other than moan about how bad a Conservative Government would be for Britain?

We already know that Harriet Harman is to head up Gordon Brown and the PLP’s #GE10 campaign which sidelines Lord Mandelson (a very risky strategy indeed), but was this appointment simply to the *Fearless Five striking first?

*Fearless Five are a group of rebels led by Jack Straw, the others are Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman, Chancellor Alistair Darling, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Home Secretary Alan Johnson.

One also has to wonder how much Sarah Brown will be used throughout #GE10 as already she has persuaded an ex-colleague from the PR field, Helen Scott Lidgett to join her in the depths of the bunker.

Today, Gordon Brown will give a speech that will be full of empty promises and scorn on the Tories but will it be enough to stave the assassins from his door?