Goodbye Mr Brown.

After the  events of yesterday by senior Labour figures saying that they were in talks with the Lib Dems it has emerged today that no deal was in any danger of being passed.  Labour have now realised they have no mandate to form the government and have finally bowed to the wishes of the British people.  After all my comments yesterday when it appeared Labour would be in power for what seemed like forever Gordon Brown has resigned as Prime Minister and is now at Buckingham Palace where he will be speaking privately with HM The Queen.  It had been bandied about for most of the afternoon by all media outlets that Gordon Brown was resigning and would be leaving imminently.  All this chatter started around 2.30pm and now at just gone half past seven in the evening of Tuesday 11th May 2010 Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah came to the lectern in Downing Street, flanked a little distance away by Downing Street staff, to announce he was resiging with immediate effect.  He then allowed his little sons to have their photographs taken with mum and dad before walking to the car to go to Buckingham Palace.  To be honest I found myself becoming unexpectedly emotional as the moment drew near.  Gordon Brown at least had the dignity to come out of the front of No 10 and tell us his intentions and not leave out the back like his predecessor. 

Democracy has again won the day. 

As was explained by the media too, any alliance of what they called 'The Rainbow Alliance' because of all the colours of the parties needed to get this 'strong stable government' by forming Labour, Lib-Dems, Plaid Cymru (Wales), SNP (Scotland) and DUP (Northern Ireland) would have had no chance of getting anything passed as the time it would have taken to go round every MP of every part of the alliance would mean it would take so long to get anything passed it would not have been feasible to do this; perhaps that is why it was reported today that any such alliance was not workable.

We have just watched Gordon Brown and Sarah met by the Queen's Equerry before going inside Buck House and to be sure he looked like he had just had the cares of the world removed from his shoulders.  Goodbye and good luck to Gordon Brown, enjoy your retirement with your young family. 

Once the Queen accepts the resignation she has to call upon someone else to form the next government and become the new PM, in this case it is David Cameron.  For some reason I have visions of him hiding behind the sofa so that when she 'calls on David Cameron' to form the next government he will pop up from behind said couch and say 'you called ma'am.'  Being a little facetious I know but in the middle of all this gravitas we need a little light relief.

Of course it is going to be horrendous for anyone taking on the mantle of Prime Minister given the state of public finances and the state of the country in general, will it be sorted out soon? will it get easier? - who knows?  All I will say is good luck to Mr Cameron whether he chooses to form a minority government or whether he does indeed form a coalition with the Lib Dems; the latter would be preferable as it would provide this strong, stable government we need.

So there it is, a momentous day in British politics, an outgoing PM, a new PM coming in.  There's a really long road to recovery for this country, hopefully it will now be unified and our problems ratified and sorted in a fair and decent way.

Just as an added footnote here, on the way into the Palace there was a gorgeous rainbow, almost like the Rainbow Alliance was still trying to get the last word ;)

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