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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is starting to look like an over the hill punch-drunk heavyweight boxer stumbling around the ring desperately hoping that the referee will step in and end the agony.
Having been battered by a raft of cabinet resignations, a dismal performance in last week’s local government elections and now his Labour Party plunging to its lowest level in a century in European elections, Brown appears almost out for the count.
So much so that the bookmakers William Hill are offering odds of 7/4 that Brown will step down as PM by midnight this Saturday.
Former postman, now Home Secretary, Alan Johnson is the 5/4 favourite to replace Brown, with Harriet Harman at 7/1, David Miliband at 8/1, his brother Ed at 9/1, Jon Crudass at 12/1, with the PM’s close friend Ed Balls at 14/1.
And with the Conservative Party’s odds at 1/20 to win the next general election, Brown’s potential successor will need to be a miracle worker to keep Labour in power.
Who do you think should replace Gordon Brown?
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Ladbrokes is also offering 2/1 that Gordon Brown will resign by the end of June!
“Who should replace Gordon Brown?”
David Cameron, as soon as possible.
Labour’s finished. All we’ll see now until they’re finally escorted off the premises is scorched earth for the Tories.
No-one will replace Brown because Labour can’t win the next election.
Who in their right mind would give him the “honourable” way out, then be labelled “the man (woman) who lost the election”? No-one.
Didn’t I see one or more earlier posts here that have since disappeared? Reuters censoring the views it doesn’t like? It won’t make any difference. The Left went belly up in the UK and Europe at the weekend. Live with it.
What I want to happen is a general election, but what will probably happen is another scandal in a few weeks leading to more pressure on the dictator to leave.
If he does or not is another matter.
I do not currently beleive that it will make any difference whatsoever if Labour decide to evict Gordon Brown. He is currently the best out of the lot that is left.
Who else in the labour party would have had the strength of conviction to carry out the extremely tough decisions that had to be made and still be standing today.
At the end of the day we are all people and people deserve to be respected for having to carry the can for so many over such a long period of time. It is a wonder he is still managing to operate on a day to day basis.
He does not have the luxury of saying to his bosses can I please have a much needed career break to recharge my batteries as my medical adviser has stated that if I do not take this break I will suffer greatly in the long term.
What we have all seen is that the people that have been surrounding him and recently decided to jump ship are not of the required standard, certainly not that which we require to see us through perhaps the most challenging time in our history. Thank you for getting out you have done us all a favour!
In the current recession I am sure that there are plenty of eager people standing in the wings to take your big fat salaries and associated expenses not too mention your cushy pension fund benefits.
It is a foregone conclusion that no matter when a General Election is called Labour are out so why change the leadership now – waste of effort and resource and too costly. So lets make economic sense and stick with Gordon and let him gracefully leave his position by the democratic process not the hounding out unprofessional way of the infighters who are so quick to change their colours when things don’t work out.
Brown being annihilated at the next election wouuld be good, but it might only keep Labour in the wilderness for 15 years, and it will take longer than that to erase their horrendous legacy. Better by far that their dream rescue candidate should be annihilated (personally I think the postman should be the patsy) – then they are likely to stay in the wilderness for a generation at least, if indeed they survive as a party at all.