Gordon Brown is getting savaged by two former Home Secretaries. And it’s actually far more devastating than being savaged by a pair of dead sheep, which is unusual considering the two are David Blunkett and Charles Clarke.

Blunkett said that:

Labour has lost its political antennae and needs to get them back. We have no underlying domestic social policy.

We have got to get our heads up again. We have got to get back to old-fashioned politics that’s in touch with people we seek to represent and avoid self-inflicted wounds.

Effectively, he is stating that Brown has failed; that he has no idea what he’s doing and doesn’t know how to get us out of the recession; and that he doesn’t even have control over his own party any more – let alone the country.

Clarke has gone even more on the attack:

There have been things that have been done recently which have made me feel ashamed to be a Labour Member of Parliament, which was something I never ever wanted to be in.

I worked, as you say, over my whole political life to get Labour into a position where it could be a good government and I do see that fading away… And it feels absolutely appalling…

Obviously Gordon will think about his own position as he rightly should, but I don’t think there’s a lot of movement around whether Gordon should be moved but there’s a lot around saying Gordon has to improve his performance.

He is ashamed to be a Labour MP under Brown. Ouch. He is rather transparently setting himself up as a stalking horse candidate to get Brown out of office, despite his assertion that “I very much expect Gordon still to be leading us into the next general election” his statement reads very much like a final warning, giving Brown one last chance to buck up his act.

For two former Home Secretaries to attack their own parties government in such a way has to be unprecedented. All we need now is for John Reid to make an attack for the full set!*

This has been a very very bad week for Labour – even more so than when Mandelson admitted that it was turning into “a bit of a week”.

* Jack Straw is the only other Labour ex-Home Secretary, and he’s currently in the Cabinet and so doesn’t count.