What if Brown resigned?
With many calling for Gordon Brown to stand down immediately, I'm wondering what this would mean? With coalition talks potentially many days away from a conclusion, wouldn't this result in an extended period without a government?
If we want proportional representation, then we need to get used to the idea of the caretaker government which continues to govern during the coalition negotiations. That's how it works elsewhere, doesn't it? To leave the country with the office of Prime Minister vacant for (potentially) a week, during a financial crisis would seem to me to be madness.
Of course, he could make an announcement about standing down in the near future. But standing down now?-surely it is, as he says, his duty to continue to do his job until or unless a new PM is chosen.
-roy
If we want proportional representation, then we need to get used to the idea of the caretaker government which continues to govern during the coalition negotiations. That's how it works elsewhere, doesn't it? To leave the country with the office of Prime Minister vacant for (potentially) a week, during a financial crisis would seem to me to be madness.
Of course, he could make an announcement about standing down in the near future. But standing down now?-surely it is, as he says, his duty to continue to do his job until or unless a new PM is chosen.
-roy