To think that Gordon Brown is a fucking megalomaniac who should be removed from No10 for his and our safety?

[Rosieeo]

The man must be on the edge: "OK, you've voted against me/my party in your thousands, but guess what? I don't care and will cling on to my bit of power for dear life because I am Gordon and I must be right."

I've never been so annoyed by politics in my life.

I know it might come to nothing anyway, but the bloody cheek of it all!

How on earth do any of us know he is a good man? he may have conviction but so did Hitler and Stalin. I think GB has been in power too long and to me, appears to have an unhealthy obsession with being PM. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Time to go I think.

I have always voted Labour until the last election and haven't due to the bollocks over Iraq and this time because of GB's sense of entitlement. I think he is a crap leader.

I hope GB, does continue to be PM, and agree with tweety!

Gordon Brown was as elected as any PM - by the people of Kirkcaldy - same as Thatcher was elected by the people of Finchley. we don't get a say in party leaders.

And I think YABU, fwiw. If Labour was so unpopular, this really should have been Cameron's election to lose, yet he couldn't even get a tiny majority.

Looking at the other news with the stock markets etc we would probably be wise to stick with him for now!

OK then suppose he is sitting there now saying: "Well that's it, Labour has lost, that means I must concede this and resign immediately."

The party advisers will all be saying, NO, don't you DARE. This is not about YOU. This is about the LABOUR PARTY.

He has to do what is best for the party. He is insignificant at this stage. He cannot throw away everything because he feels like a failure. That would be the actiond of a megalomaniac. The idea that he is barricaded in a bunker refusing to surrender is laughable. He will be sitting tight, agonising over statistics and figures with his advisers, trying to work out the best course of action . . . just like David Cameron will be doing.

To allege that the reason Gordon Brown has not conceded defeat yet is because he is a megalomaniac is as ridiculous as saying that the reason David Cameron has not claimed victory yet is because he is so sweet, shy and retiring that he can't bear all the fuss.

Gawd!

When will people stop thinking that general elections are all about electing a Prime Minister? A grown woman asked me in the polling station yesterday if there was a separate ballot paper to vote for the prime minister! She asked me as she had heard my DD ask me the same thing - I was unimpressed at being asked that by an eight year old, let alone a fifty year old.

gggggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

lolster I think that all came across really well in his speech last night, and I can really believe that.

YABU. It's not about him. It's abut the party and the country.

An exceptionally high turnout and yet the conservatives have still been unable to gain an overall majority.

I would say that there is no mandate for them to govern. Not as much as there would be with a lab/lib dem coalition.

I have far more confidence in Gordon Brown than I do in any of the other party leaders.

I have nothing against coalition government, it just seems odd that the government should be formed by a party that hasn't won the most votes, just because said party happens to be in power at the time the election took place.

Imarriedfrog, previous poster was answering the OP, as "knowing hm" id not what she has been told with GB real life friends!

I think we all care about his ability to lead labour!, but none the less the OP's intention was to belittle this man and have a GB slagging match.

At the end of the day now, only the queen can decide who s gong to give PM now, and since she is out of the palace on other engagements we wll have to wait, as always.

I reckon Gordon will stand down - to me he looks as if he has had enough. He should have been more careful what he wished for.

YABU

Only the queen can give Prime Minister, so ultimately it is her who decides!

I find it very distasteful that a man who was not even elected PM in the first place should try to maintain his position now.