Will Gordon Brown resign today ?

[eliquant]

Will Gordon Brown resign today ?

We all know that some in his party are all pushing for it. But will he relinquish power or have a long drawn out slow death right up until the general elections 2010 ?

what do you reckon ?

[Goldenboy]

He shouldnt have been allowed to become PM without an election anyway!!

[Churchill]

He shouldnt have been allowed to become PM without an election anyway!!

WHS!

Linky - Brown must do the decent thing!!! <--- that'll be the f**king day!

[expat]

He shouldnt have been allowed to become PM without an election anyway!!

That is a problem for the constitution of Parliament. As you know, the leader of the majority party is automatically Prime Minister, but the voting public do not get to choose the leaders of any of the parties.

In fact, as Ken Livingstone pointed out last night, the party leader is not chosen by the parliamentary party either, but by the whole party.

Livingstone thinks that it is right that it should be so; many of us might well think that this is not the way to choose the Prime Minister.

[Menelaus]

Labourlist.org (set up by Draper) is an interesting place to watch the evisceration of the party ... for example, the current top post on the site shows the election results as posted already - and Labour are, to use the venacular, "well and truly ****ed".

[The Lone Gunman]

He shouldnt have been allowed to become PM without an election anyway!!

Sorry, but that is not the way British politics works.

No matter what you think, we do NOT elect the Prime Minister. We elect individula representatives (usually affiliated to a party). Once the dust settles we see who (if any) has the majority and therefore the mandate to govern.
It is usually that parties leader who is made PM. It is up to that party how they decide who the leader should be.

[Menelaus]

Sorry, but that is not the way British politics works.

No matter what you think, we do NOT elect the Prime Minister. We elect individula representatives (usually affiliated to a party). Once the dust settles we see who (if any) has the majority and therefore the mandate to govern.
It is usually that parties leader who is made PM. It is up to that party how they decide who the leader should be.

For now; in the future, who knows?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Will Gordon Brown resign today ?

We all know that some in his party are all pushing for it. But will he relinquish power or have a long drawn out slow death right up until the general elections 2010 ?

what do you reckon ?

Neither. He won't go today, but he won't last until next year.

[Menelaus]

Neither. He won't go today, but he won't last until next year.

Reshuffle is underway. Darling is keeping his job, apparently.

[The Lone Gunman]

Reshuffle is underway. Darling is keeping his job, apparently.

If the opposition can keep up the momentum then this reshuffle could backfire.
I can just here Call me Dave now "Deckchairs......Titanic....same old......same old.....failed policies of a failed leader of a failed party"