Can I be the first to gloat over the corpse of New Labour ?

This entity lead us into TWO wars (one still ongoing).

The first thing that the new government should do is hold a bonfire with all those Labour Bills, such as DNA databases, ID cards, 28 days detention etc etc and every other thing New Labour did to deny us our rights and freedoms.

Brilliant

Totally AWESOME !!

Phew. The worst years I can ever remember. 2000 to 2010 will go down as the

DECADE FROM HELL.

At least his departure was dignified, and in a small way, almost moving.

If he had shown the slightest humanity during office - instead of trying to turn the UK into a police state - he may have been liked more.

Ding Dong!

What is disturbing is how accurate this is

which indicates many knew what we were getting ourselves into, and thus only have ourselves to blame....

An ambiguous ending for an ambiguous politician - a strange mixture of dignity and peevishness, if appearances were accurate. The abrupt timing seemed to suggest he was deliberately messing up the incoming leader's plans for arrival, and yet he spoke well outside No.10. All a bit awkward. And he seems to have a nice family but a family wasn't elected to public office and shouldn't have been there. Keep the private private.

And I suppose that Tory Toff and his poodle Cleggy are going to be the cure for all ills. Highly unlikely.

A clever move by Brown and Labour. Take a back seat and watch the other 2 parties sort themselves out. Gives time to re-group and come back and ome back a stronger party.

To be fair, no leader was claiming this time to be a cure for all ills. It's time for some grown-up Government, and I think the situation is just too serious to snap straight into chronic scepticism, sorely tempting though it is.

Well let's hope that Labour now returns to it's roots and abandons it's ambition to be Conservative Lite.

There is still a rocky time ahead and if it re-groups and adopts it's original ideals there is every chance it could be back in power after the next election.

And don't blame Brown for everything..never forget the greatest Labour disappointment..Blair.

How wonderful to see the back of the ghastly Campbell and Mandleson.

I don't agree Clegg will be a poodle (surely Blair's title !)..he has extraordinary power now. The next few year will either make or break his party for all time.

Angel wrote:
A clever move by Brown and Labour.

You speak as if this was planned ... that in some way Brown had any real say in the developments. The British people rejected him (at the very first opportunity). He was clinging to power with dear life (even phoning Nick Clegg to throw in spoilers when Clegg was deep in negotiations with the Tories). Even members of his own party knew the game was up (and many went public and said so).

Brown is a sour bitter man. "Let's quit now - so the Tories don't have time to plan an arrival". (Everyone knows that they bussed-in loads of supporters - all pretending to be the public - the "welcome" Tony Blair in 1979).

Contrast that with the statesmanlike Nick Clegg ... who only enered Parliament in 2005 - and in five years he is Deputy PM. He has also returned the Liberal Party to government for the first time in 70 years. It's an astonishing achievement that Brown can only be jealous about.

Difficult times ahead as we try to sort out the mess (the biggest deficit in history) - all left by Mr Brown.

The future is bright ... and the future is definately not red !

The BBC's analysis of Gordon Brown:

veritas wrote:
And don't blame Brown for everything..never forget the greatest Labour disappointment..Blair.

How wonderful to see the back of the ghastly Campbell and Mandleson.

I don't agree Clegg will be a poodle (surely Blair's title !)..he has extraordinary power now. The next few year will either make or break his party for all time.

To a certain extent Brown was lumbered with the doomed-to-failure policies (and wars) that B-Liar had left behind.

I agree about Mandleson .... notice how "absent" he was on TV last night? If Labour had won he would have been smirking all over our screens.