Interesting reading all your comments on Gordon Brown.
When he was prime-minister in waiting so to speak, everyone spoke so highly of him. You'd rarely hear a bad word said about him, it was always what an excellent chancellor he was, what a skillful politician, steady, safe, honest and so on.
He became prime minister and suddenly he was the anti-Christ and everyone hated him.
I do wonder sometimes if good politicians are better off staying out of the top jobs/limelight altogether. He definitely does seem to have taken on a statesmanlike role in all this, a voice of reason almost .. and from what little I've seen (we aren't getting anything like the amount of coverage you are) it suits him.
As for Clegg - I don't think I've ever been as disappointed in a politician as I have Clegg. He was so impressive in those early televised election debates and I really though at last we had a young, charismatic, liberal politician who could really go places. He's turned out to be a complete and utter waste of space. So many things I've just though WTF? Is this that same person from those early debates? I don't know what he's thinking half the time. Never thought I'd say this but I'd have Cameron over Clegg any day of the week.
My own personal viewpoint of course - I know others will disagree entirely but as the discussion was drifting that way a little, I thought I'd add my own observations.
