Why is Gordon Brown in power?

the majority voted for Labour so just deal with it!

Thanks for asking this question...I've been asking the same thing.

Personally, I feel the public are victims of ....an old, "done and dusted " New Labour pledge & deal ...within the inner sanctum of the labour party....and not just between Tony Blair and Mr Brown....

As far as I'm concerned...the leader of a government is the man or woman...who is voted in to that position....by the people....What would happen if Robert Mugabe stepped down...and the following morning......a "freind" fellow party member of the Mugabe regime....is voted into power....without the people of Zimbabwe being consulted or given the opportunity to vote otherwise?......

People talk about democracy....and the lack of it.....in the middle east or Africa or?.......they should look closer to home!!

Tony Blair stepped down as being Prime Minister, the Labour Government had to then choose their own leader and they chose Gordon Brown. You're right, it is quite unfair he automatically PM - he doesn't have a very strong mandate to govern.

Oh well, until next time I suppose.

yes you are! 'very much' the future of this country.but your concern for your country is nothing without physical input. your generation is being smothered by immigration. denied a realistic chance to buy a home. your country is being given away from under you. and your future is creeping closer and closer towards Islamification. and yet your generation does nothing. you have the stregnth and virility of youth, the hopes and dreams of a decent safe world to bring your family's up in...and yet you stand and watch it being dashed to the ground. your right to a say in how this country is run should be earned. get out there and fight to get what you want. because if you leave it to the labour party, then your future is looking very grimm indeed. its about time that the young of this country showed their metal....(because the old certainly wont.)

It is a pretty shambolic situation run by a shambles of a government.

Labour have been awful in power - I hope to see the back of them for a very long time after the next election.

No voter voted for Gordon Brown to be PM, you vote for your constituency MP of whatever party.

The Party that gets the most MPs form a govt. they elect who will be Prime Minister.

When Blair `packed in` the reins of Govt. went to Gordon Brown by consent of the labour party.

Rightly or wrongly thats they way it works in the UK.

He is not the first to take over a Govt. mid term.

Who else is there to be leader? He was in the right place at the right time. However let's be honest there is little to choose between stodgy G Brown and wet D Cameron. UK politicians generally seem pretty hopless these days and have lost touch with the electorate while feathering their own nests at the expense of the taxpayer. Worse still we seem to have lost more and more freedom over the last 10 years and we are like the proverbial lemmings jumping over the cliff!- And this is supposed to be a democratic country, joy oh joy!

he's PM because no-one else in the Labour party challenged him to be Prime Minister when Blair left. But even if they had, you would not have voted for him, it would have been the Labour Party that voted for him. This is because in a general election, you vote for a party, not a PM.

He is the leader of this country because the old Labour party (and I don't mean the loony left) that still exists within Nu-Labour don't have the balls to challenge him.

well said although your ideas that we are 51st state is a little way off that is EU propaganda being fed to young people so we become just another state within the EU.If you are interested in what happens to your country which it seems you are start reading unbiased reviews on the Lisbon treaty your country is being given away for free to the EU Communist party in Brussels.Good luck.

I HATE labour with a vengence, they have it in for the middle class hard workers and steal my taxes to pay for the lay-abouts, not happy, we should get them out!