Labour Campaigning as "BLAIR-BROWN" - Brit DU'ers?

[liberalpragmatist]

I've noticed that on the Labour Party is campaigning as "Blair-Brown," giving Chancellor and presumptive PM Gordon Brown a greater role.

Is this common? Has this been done before? Or is it just a way to give wavering Labour voters something to consider so they don't defect or stay home? A way to minimize Blair?

[Taxloss]

1. It's been like this since Iraq.

Blair has been minimised in much campaigning. But Brown hasn't always been thrust forwards, until Labour noticed their numbers rise when he is. At the beginning of the run-up to the election, he was sidelined, almost snubbed.

Now the opposition parties seem to have more pictures of Blair on their literature than Labour does! He's really becoming a liability.

[mr blur]

2. If Labour wins the election,

and Blair doesn't last the whole term, it will be Brown, the much more acceptable face of the Labour Party (to many at least)

[sweetheart]

3. Pragmatism

The reality is that blair has lost all his trust with the people, that
lying bastard. Brown, however, has not, and blair desperately needs
brown's street cred with the regular labour-voter in the street.

This comes on the back of a viscious campaign where blair's clost of
skeletons and dirty laundry has come back to haunt him big time.

Its not new news particularly, but that blair has realized that he was
potentially going to lose without incorporating his successor.

Had Al Gore realized in October 2000 that he should get Bill Clinton
to campaign for him, so that he could get some of the big-dog's magic
and blessing, we'd not be in this mess..... and blair, coming to his
senses after a huge ego-trip, is realizing similarly, the he must get
the substance in to the campaign or risk everything.