Gordon Brown resigns as Labour leader [merged]

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Progressive Alliance YAY!

Gordon's got a young family he can spend more time with and genuinely enjoy seeing grow up, happy in the knowledge that he's shafted the Tories one last time

 

[beorhthelm]

I see no reason why it can't be done quicker either. Fair enough, for stability stay on for a month to hand over power more smoothly but why so long? If he died would we really wait five months for a new PM?

Its the Labour party rules, election can only happen at Labour Party conference. I suppose its possible they could call that earlier than the normal autumn, or some sort of extraordinaty general meeting. in the event of the leader being incapicitated or unavailable, it goes to the deputy, then an interim appointee of the Executive committee.

If Dave Miller Band is such an odds-on favourite, is there the possibility he could be annointed without an election as per Brown, and thus speed the process up?

see above

The people who claim that Brown "wasn't elected" are simply WRONG. The candidates who opposed him couldn't muster enough support to make a contest of it.

or, as you well know, the serious candidates were told to sit it out "for the good of the party" and the MPs told to accept the pre-arranged deal. it was only just fudged through as i recall with a lot of grumbling and unease.

 

[pork pie]

Progressive Alliance YAY!

Gordon's got a young family he can spend more time with and genuinely enjoy seeing grow up, happy in the knowledge that he's shafted the Tories one last time

Yes, and you could invite the silly tart from the Greens into it - f***ing crank!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Its the Labour party rules, election can only happen at Labour Party conference. I suppose its possible they could call that earlier than the normal autumn, or some sort of extraordinaty general meeting.

Yep. Blair resigned on 10 May 2007. Brown was endorsed as leader at a special party conference on 24 June 2007.

Brown makes his announcement EXACTLY three years after Blair made his.

If we DO get a Cameron government, what is the likelihood of streets all over the country being renamed, continental-style, Avenue of 10 May?

 

[Race]

Never mind Gordon. You're still king in the land of the blind.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

What worries me is that any cuts in Public Spending won't happen in Scotland, Wales or NI as this 'Rianbow Alliance' will have so much power, and Labour/LibDems will be beholden to the Nationalists.

So more cuts in England than anywhere else in the UK.

Is that right and 'fair'?

I cannot see a Lib/Lab pact as 'stable' - too many minority Parties involved.

 

[Beach Hut]

Brown is resorting to desperate measures now, FFS quit now you stupid old fart

 

[drew]

Thatcher gave notice know it would be resolved in a couple of weeks not 4 months. is there any precedent for this?

? Have I read that right? Thatcher never gave notice of her intention to quit. She had a leadership challenge from Heseltine. She was in the first ballot and was ready to go forward in the second ballot but was persuaded not to by her cabinet.

 

[ryeseagull]

I hope it's Johnson.