Is it time for Gordon Brown to step down

[xxFidgetxx]

Ex whip Greg Pope states that any of the senior figures in the Labour Party would do better in this years general election. He also goes on to say that Gordon Brown is more unpopular than the Labour party, stating that they need a change of leader.

Do you think Brown should go and would it influence your vote in the general election?

[suzie1]

hu jintao should replace him

[craft1948]

Yes.....and No......

[mollykins]

How can we have a prime minister that wasn't voted prime minister (yes he was voted deputy but someone else if tony wasn't a candidate might have made it) and other ministers have told him to step down, without being voted. Very democratic.

[buildersmate]

Yes, and No, also - because it's time to get the other crowd in.
When you've codsed things up as much as NoooLabour, you don't get another turn for three parliament sessions, by which time enough of the electorate will have forgotten how bad things really got.

[xxFidgetxx]

Who is hu jintao?

I twice have voted Labour and have to say i won't be votting for them again as long as Gordon Brown is at the helm. He isn't right for the job and out of respect for his party should step down.

[BilSuth]

A slim chance of Labour winning with him. A leadership scramble now would be suicidal. Blair was lucky to have a feelgood factor that kept his cabinet loyal. Brown doesn't know who is going to let him down next. Pity, because I think he is okay. As a left-of-centre Scot I vote SNP so I believe I am neutral, UK-wise, about Labour and their self-inflicted wounds.

[mollykins]

I thought we lived in a democracy.

Perhaps we should vote on who the leader of labour should be, give them a chance when they fail a general election will have to be called in labour will lose and gordon will be happy he got out while he could.

[xxFidgetxx]

Exactly Mollkins.

I agree Buildersmate......it's time for change

[mollykins]

and thats my prediction for 2010.

[mollykins]

It wouldn't be ditching their leader if they actually let the public decide who wanted to be leader, like they should, this is a democracy ahm.

[MarkRae]

"time to get the other lot in"...????

You're not seriously referring to the Tories, are you...? Can you not actually remember the 80s...?

[mollykins]

what about lib dems?

[MarkRae]

The Lib Dems? Yeah - "first we'll form a government and then we'll form an opinion"...

[mollykins]

or will the bnp sort the middle east out and its people?

[ummmm]

No it won't Molly....

[mollykins]

or is that too extreme, will it be like having sharia law.

[buildersmate]

Too bloody right I can. Stopped the work-shy sponging off the State. Broke the Union stranglehold, holding industry and hence the country to ransom for wages rises that were not affordable for the productivity.
Not saying everything was great.
NoooLabour followed similar and successful policies until after the 2001 elections, after which things went off the rails.

[xxFidgetxx]

Mark rae the only other party that are with in a chance of winning the election are the tories. Yes we all remember the 80's but they have a different leader now and to be honest can they be any worse than the shower of muppets we have in power now?

[mollykins]

I don't remember the 80s