Brown resigning?

[MrJustAbout]

He's heading back to london and it sounds like he's got a pearl handled revolver with him.

Suppose it was inevitable...

Let's hope so!

Yeah, I can't wait for the uber-intelligent Mr Cameron to take charge - not.

about bloody time

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he should have resigned when he sold off all our gold at rock bottom prices.

is he resigning as labour leader? if so deputy will be pm...

It's not on any of the News sites that he's resigning...

surely he's just coming back to London to make sure no-one else moves into his house when he's not there?

he wouldn't resign today surely?

I'm not keen on him but I would have thought it a bit irresponsible to leave without a cetain successor.

He won't resign until Dave has decided what he's doing with Clegg

He's doing what Margaret Thatcher did right before she resigned. He wants to ask each cabinet member whether he has their support on a one to one basis.

A mate of mine has got £25 opn Mandelson being interim PM until Govt is finally sorted. Not as unlikey as it seems, apparently
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I hope he does as I've been promised a week in France this summer if the bet pays off

He shouldn't be resigning - too many people voted Labour. He needs to stay in post until it's sorted but by all means look at a new leader in the meantime.

it would throw a huge cat, possibly a big hairy ginger one, into the pigeons...i'm all for it. step down you war criminal neo-liberal sell-out!

I think it's as Labour. Apparently there was another phone call with Clegg last night - although no sign that this one was a screaming match. (BBC suggests that this was genuinely amicable.)

On the BBC now - Brown is going to be in discussion with cabinet ministers but no formal cabinet meeting. Assumption is that he's waiting to see what happens with the lib dem talks.

Darling is emphasising that they'd talk to the Lib Dems if talks fail, whilst Cameron's utterances sound like there'll be no real movement on democracy.

The other possibility being that he resigns for the good of the party so as to open the door for a pact with the LDs as their cooperation would be contingent on GB resigning.

That's my reading ilove etc.

no it doesn't mean the deputy leader will become prime minister - bbc political correspondant was explaining this the other day - currently gb is prime minister. If he resigns, then it automatically follows that david cameron will be invited to the palace and asked if he can form a government. Obviously his response will depend on the outcome of talks with lib dems or whether he feels he can form a minority govt.

There are things which look suspiciously like removal vans just outside No 10 on the TV pictures

He's not resigning, for all the obv. constitutional reasons.

He is spoken with Cleggy on the phone, and they are about to have a little meet, where Gordy pushes Cleggy onto a hot radiator and holds him there til he promises to support Alan Johnson as the next PM fro a specific peiod, say 18 month, so that the parties can rebuild their coffers and go again.

you heard it here first......

for Labour (not Brown) it makes sense.

if Brown steps down it means Vince, i mean Clegg, can talk to them.

Milliband PM, Cable in number 11, Lucas environment, Clegg at home with his wife/home secretary...

Tories cry a lot. Brown joins RBS as an advisor on £1mn/yr.

Then Labour/Liberals never get elected again after slashing public services to the nuts