Tony Boy - Gordon

So Mr Brown twisted enough arms to secure 308 nominations prompting left-winger John McDonnell to concede.

John was 16 nominations short of the 45 required; or to put it another way, New Labour managed to avoid any semblance of a democratic process in shoehorning Gordon through the front door of Number 10. John rightly called this sham a "blow to democracy".

Well it looks like it is full steam ahead for the New Labour machine, stifling democratic processes where it matters whilst funding the side-show that is the election of Gordon’s deputy.

McDonnell's challenge would have given Labour voters a chance to vote for a left-wing alternative to Brown, but unfortunately Blairism reigns on. You can’t profess to be a new man when you stoop to the Old Master’s tactics.

So what do we have to look forward to.

Firstly we have the disaster that is Iraq – we’ll back the USA says Brown.

We have lack of investment – we’ll stick to PFI.

I could go on, but I think you know what Tony Boy Gordon will do – the market rules!