Chancellor Of Exchequer Gives In To Forces Of Hell?

Has the Chancellor of the Exchequer surrendered to the forces of hell?

It looks very much as if Alistair Darling has given up the ghost as he and his wife have been packing and taking their personal books and mementos from Downing Street back to whence they came.

That is back to his home in the beautiful City of Edinburgh.

This move has, however been denied, by an aide who said that they are not moving out and the "pictures are still on the wall" well that's not to be surprised at is it? After all they are owned by the country.

It might be that he thinks all is lost with Captain Gordon Brown or perhaps he knows that even if Gordon is Prime Minister again that the forces of hell will be unleashed on him again so he would not get the Chancellors job again anyway.

Alistair Darling in a frank interview has disclosed that people working for Gordon Brown had tried to undermine him simply because he had the gumption to tell the truth about the economy.

For that and standing up to Gordon Brown he has to be complemented. It is about time that politicians stand up for their views and principles.

I may or I may not agree with Alistair Darling's politics but he has all my admiration for standing up and being counted. These remarks follow reports in a book by Andrew Rawnsley that Gordon Brown's aides tried to cut the ground from beneath his feet after Alistair Darling as Chancellor had forecast that the UK was suffering its worst economic downturn for 60 years.

No disrespect to Alistair Darling but we all knew more or less what he was saying was true from personal experience of small shops and business's closing at a rapid rate of knots and unemployment increasing regularly since 2005. After all it is not rocket science is it?

In a a televised interview, Alistair Darling had confirmed that No 10 Downing Street had in fact worked against him. Alistair Darling made his prediction about the recession in an interview held in the summer of 2008 in Scotland.

Shortly afterwards, Aides from No 10 briefed journalists that Alistair Darling had harmed the economy and should be removed. Alistair Darling said and I quote "Nobody likes the sort of briefing that goes on," and he also went on to say , "the forces of hell were unleashed".

According to the book, allies of Mr Brown including Charlie Whelan, who is a a senior union official of the Unite Union, and Damian McBride, who was then Gordon Brown's political spokesman, started a systematic campaign to undermine Alistair Darling in connection with the ["e;]recession["e;] interview, including discussing the possibility that he oould be sacked from his post. When Alistair Darling was asked if he accepted that Mr McBride and Mr Whelan had briefed against him, Darling said: ["e;]Of course you have people saying things.["e;]

It is believed that Gordon Brown had intended to remove Alistair Darling from the Treasury in the summer of 2009 and replace him with a very long-standing ally Mr Ed Balls. Balls is somebody who was involved when Gordon Brown sold 395 Tons of the British Gold reserves at a time when the price of Gold was at an all time low. Since the gold was sold the price has increased four fold. So if that's any thing to go on it seems very good that he did not in fact become Chancellor.

Obviously this scheming to oust Alistair as Chancellor of the Exchequer brought a new confrontation between the two men.

Apparently at a private meeting Alistair Darling told Gordon Brown that he would resign rather than accept any other job. Gordon Brown backed down, leaving Alistair Darling in his job.