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!

Everytime any of you slags off the American system, and I remember thread after thread of 'America will never elect a black president' (really, funny that, they did!), I'm going to remember all these threads and throw them back in that person's face.

Some of you, like the OP, behave like nursery school pupils.

'Despairing at the ignorance over how the British parliamentary system works.

It isn't about the man, it is about the party.

Others have said it better. '

Exactly, Beach.

Disgusting indeed.

I'm appalled at the 'system' here. Most of the democratic world is. They shake their heads in disbelief and laugh at the farce it is.

I hope he stays on. He can be the one to make the humiliating call to the IMF to sort out the mess that he has made of the economy.

Hope Cameron gets in, so that way we up here can have another reason effigy to burn on Bonfire Night until Thatcher carks it and the entire country dances in the streets.

Unreasonable.

Personally I think Cameron is the "fucking megalomaniac". All style, no substance.

With GB, what you see is what you get.

With DC, you don't know what he is hiding under that shiny exterior!

'With DC, you don't know what he is hiding under that shiny exterior! '

Thankfully, it's not a brain. That would make him dangerous.

Why would that make him dangerous expat? In that he would be running the country or he would be the meglomaniac. Just genuinely interested and not trying to be difficult!

Well looks like we are all definitely going to be voting again in October - so at least all those people who didn't get the opportunity to vote yesterday can get themselves down to the polls then.

Hooray!, well so much for Gordon stepping down, Eh, hes just released a statement saying hes going to try and form a government! C'mon Labour!

personally would still like to see us re-voting!

no NC has said he's supporting DC
it's goodbye Gordy

he didn't say he was supporting Tories, just that they had the most votes, and that they should be the 1st to try and form a government!

But as i understand it even if Labour did form a coalition/pact with Liberals they still wouldn't have a majority,the only way we would end up with a Government that stands a chance of getting a Queens speech through is Tory/Lib but this is going to be a very difficult deal to broker and they risk a period of satisfying nobody and then another election in the Autumn .

Electoral reform is complex and will take a long time to frame and implement I would have thought at least 3 to5 years,at the moment I think we should be concentrating on sorting out the economy and constitutional reform will have to take a back seat.

Agree bourboncreme The hung parliament is a bit of a disaster. Politicians will fiddle around working out who is going to govern whilst the stock market goes into meltdown and the UK gets more into debt. Sigh.

Because it just isn't part of our parliamentary tradition,also you need to look closely at how these countries make it work,lots of backroom deals and pork barrel politics .

Just heard a NI politician on radio 4 saying he will support DC if he promises not to make any cuts in NI.Earlier Alex Salmond was on naming his price,this is the trouble all the minority parties are holding the majority to ransom.

agree with tweetymum

anyway he lost, hes on his way out. Lets flash pants cameron come in and KILL THE BENEFIT SCROUNGERS then!!!!!

YANBU- In my opinion, the man seems to have got even more full of himself in recent weeks. he will try to hold out as PM for as long as possible too instead of resigning and putting himself and the public out of their misery!

YANBU- Desperate man. Was never voted into office, but rather came in on the tail coat of a deal with a man who vowed to the electorate to serve a full term-and now he is voted out of office and refuses to go. Where is the democracy in that?

YABVU!!!!!!

And constitutionally GB is Prime Minister - no-one else has won!

Yes Weegie absolutely NO sustance to DC whatsoever - I want substance not someone shiny in front of a camera!

yabu , gordon brown is not a meglomaniac . He`s a very sweet man who has tried is very best , and although he made decisions that with hindsight are shown not to be the best , he made them with the 100 % belief he was doing his best for the country.
Also dont forget , before he was PM he was chancelor for tory blairs labour , and had to deal with the economy as it was emerging fron the John Major tory goverment. The man did his best .He always did plan long term .... you cant fix a country in a 3 year stint...so i wouldnt say desperate , more of wanting to finish what he started.
Poor guy never saw the american crash affecting worldwide though. no- one did.

Spot on, Bucharest!

Silver, no PM is actually voted into office. In simple terms, we vote for the MPs and the MPs then decide who they want to lead their party. This person becomes PM. It sucks! And we need reform.

However, slagging off Brown, who, I personally think has had the rough times that really Blair should have faced, is not the answerr. The answer is, who is now going to form the government, given that the public have been seen through DC not given a clear majority to any party?

I currently live in Canada (I am a Brit citizen, btw, and spent a lot of money and voted postally), the country of hung parliaments, and we are beetling along nicely, and not even been that affected by the downturn.

So who's saying that a coalition is a horrible idea? The Daily Mail? The Sun? All papers who had invested a huge amount in the rise of the Conservatives and were willing to stoop to degrading levels to see that this happened, even to the extent of vilifing a man, who under any other circumstances would have been a strong and successful leader? In fact, why are we blaming Brown in the first place? He has not been in power as long as his predecessor Blair, who imo, should be held responsible for this mess? Sure, Brown should share some of the blame, however, is he clairvoyant that he sees this downturn coming? From the American markets no less? At least the States voted decisively for change. Britain did not.

The public have voted in a hung parliament. And we have to deal with it. How the parties are going to deal with it is another question. The rules state that the incumbent has a right to try and form a coalition. This does not feel right at the moment, yet thats what the rules state.

So, now we wait and watch and refrain from throwing around childish insults.