Clarke gets the jitters

Seems that Charles Clarke has given up on his ambition to run for the leadership of the Labour Party. Despite saying that Brown is psychologically flawedamongst other things, he now seems to have changed tact by declaring him the most successful chancellor in 200 years. So this will lead to a non existent challenge from the left which will serve no purpose but to remind a few why they joined and left the Labout party.

Maltheus thinks theres been some cushy discussions about a cabinet level job for Mr Clarke - well it can't be because he wants to devote more time to the consituency can it?! Maybe he's done a pact so that his partner in crime - Alan Milburn - can run, but i doubt it!

Oh yeah....go vote!

Wheres Charles?

Guido has created a interactive map on his blog where he follows Gordon Brown and his travels. Maltheus wishes he could do one about his local MP, Charles Clarke but doesn't know what the hell he is upto nowadays. All Maltheus hears of Clarke is his intention to try and kamikase pilot himself into the Labour Party. All this plotting is all well and good but Maltheus wouldn't mind it if Clarke actually bothered to do things in his constituentcy rather than trying to provoke his peers into a GB revolt.

When Maltheus screens the local papers there is no mention of Clarke apart from his supprt from the beard liberation front or a group of equal nonsense. He has no website, has no mention in the local papers and only gets covered in the nationals when he nobbles out a speech or two on the empty labour party future. Iain Gibson by comparrison is constantly in the news, declaring his support or anger at local intiatives and local results. It's not all about what you have in the news but it helps to have something in the papers to ensure that people think you door more than plot in your Portcullis tower...