‘David Clegg’

News tonight that Gordon Brown is to step down hasn’t come as a shock to the nation and is clearly the only option for the sidelined Labour Party.

The betting is that David Cameron will meet with the Queen tomorrow morning to make his position official as the new PM. Clegg and Cameron have been in talks all afternoon, presumably thrashing out the make-up of this historical cabinet. So Brown’s capitulation has not appeared to woo the Lib Dems into getting into bed with Labour. 

I agree with the Independent’s Political Editor Andrew Grice who spoke on Newsnight last night. He said that though Brown is one of the few unfortunate PMs to inherit his title rather than be voted in, he has nevertheless had an ‘epic’ career in politics, spanning 13 years at the top since he became Chancellor.  But Britain is tired and disillusioned with Labour’s catastrophic legacy of Iraq, Afghanistan (Blair), the recession and MPs expenses (Brown). Let’s just hope that the duo soon to be in charge stand by their word and do what’s best for the country.

Incidentally I found it very amusing that Labour’s former minister in Scotland, Henry McLeish, got a bit confused with the pairing of Cameron and Clegg yesterday, branding them as the singular ‘David Clegg’ by mistake. 

Is this some Frankenstein zombie soon to take up residence at No 10? If so, I’d vote for Clegg’s face personally.