Gordon Brown as PM...

[Gantidge]

Should we have had an election? A Genereal Election? Is it fair Brown just walks in? Should Blair not have said over a year ago that he was leaving? What do we all think Brown will be like?

[Ryan]

I think it is completely fair that Gordon Brown become Prime Minister. Tony Blair clearly stated before the 2005 General Election that he would stand down sometime during this term. The British people inferred this to mean that his successor would be chosen from the Labour party, yet they still voted for Labour. This gives a "mandate" if you will, to the Labour party to give them a free reign on how the succeeding PM would be appointed. I do not support the Labour party, but if this was the Conservatives, I would expect exactly the same thing to happen.
What I do have a problem with, is that Tony Blair decided to go on anyway, knowing he would not finish the term. In my opinion, this could be likened to a rogue builder; taking the pay, but not finishing the job!
My thoughts on Gordon Brown are currently quite positive actually. He seems to be a lot more serious than Tony Blair, at least from what I've seen over the past few years; he doesn't laugh in the face of turmoil, but rather puts on a brave face and deals with it. How Brown will hit it off with the media is yet to be seen, but I'm sure they can find a soft sport for him somewhere!

Myself, I'm just glad Bliar has gone.

[Welsh-Angel]

What are the positives and negatives of Gordon Brown? Because i know there are people don't like the fact that Gordon is now in number 10 Downing Street.

[legionreturns]

Negative: He's no longer in number 11...and already the interest rates have gone up again and there is a genral bad feeling about the economy!

[NathanMorgan]

Personally I think we should have some form of an election, and I honestly think that there would be a significant number of people that wouldn't vote Labour.

I wouldn't vote for Labour, thankfully, but now that Gordon Brown is head of the Labour party I feel their support will go down. Think about it, when people think of Gordon Brown, they think of a dour, tax and spent socialist who, thanks to the sound economy he inherited from the Tories and the one useful thing he has ever done in his political career - giving the bank of England the power to set national interest rate - has acquired an undeserved reputation for prudence. Looks a bit like a slug with eyebrows

Well... that's only what I think.

[legionreturns]

Presumabley you would favour that vacuous waste of hot air David Cameronline? Let me know when he actually has some policies, instead of borrowing bits of others for five minutes at a time and putting them on my spaz or wherever, and I will tell you whether I would support him!

One thing I am impressed about so far with GB is that he has politely but firmly told George W and the US of A that the UK is no longer it's monkey boy that will jump whenever told to. I like that. Let's see him back it up! I'm also quite pleased that he dealt firmly with the Russian diplomats - whatever the outcome, they have roundly criticised the UK for daring to want to interview a key suspect in a UK murder case. One wonders what the reaction would have been the other way around.

So yeah, foreign policy looks to be improving. Not sure about anything else yet but he certainly seems to want to undo a lot of Blairite nonsense.

Not sure, given last nights local election results, that I agree with your assessment of the collective mind of the electorate. If this pattern follows, Lab would still lead but the blues and yellows would be closer to forming a joint opposition. How horrible would *that* be?!

[NathanMorgan]

I'm not much of a Tory man. I'd vote for Tory before I'd vote for Labour, but again neither are my political party of choice.

[Gantidge]

Personally I think we should have some form of an election

I for one would certainly not like to see an election. Constitutionally that would ruin the UK. Brown would become a President, or something along those lines. That's not how our system works. Only the people of his/her constituency elects the PM, as an MP. We don't ever elect the PM. Brown became PM fair and square. Also just think about this: Major became PM the same way, as did many PMs before him. Very few PMs that replace others form in the same party, like Brown/Blair or Major/Thatcher actually do it through a General Election.

[Welsh-Angel]

i didn't vote labour ;p yay

[Gantidge]

I can't vote yet, but if I could, I wouldn't vote Labour, I'd vote Lib Dem. Though I would vote Labour over Conservative.

I think it's very interesting that David Cameron was seen as the anti-Blair, the weapon to take out Blair. Now Blair's gone, and someone else is in his place, Cameron looks so young and inexperienced. Conversely, Brown looks weathered and experienced. Who knows, we may yet have an autumn General Election.