Jamie I realise you keep saying you are done posting here and

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by David.

Jamie I realise you keep saying you are done posting here and you think I don’t want you posting comments, but the truth is the comments are open for commenting by anyone who follows the very basic rules I’ve set: almost 6,000 approved comments, I’ve deleted less than 300 mostly low quality, unhelpful comments like an idiot who was posting under 2 names threatening himself!

I’ve even removed the moderation of a commenter’s first comments, I used to approve their first comment, now all go through real time (except SPAM that’s automatically blocked).

When someone comments on this site anyone including myself can make a comment in response and you are going to find people trashing what you say when they strongly disagree with you. That’s how commenting works.

So you don’t have to ask permission to comment.

I completely disagree with the argument Gordon Brown isn’t an elected leader. We all had a vote in 2005 and we all knew Tony Blair was going to stand down and Gordon Brown would almost certainly be PM. It wasn’t a big secret we’d be getting Gordon Brown as PM if the country voted Labour.

You can argue ~ 65% of those who bothered to vote didn’t vote Labour, but then you can use the same argument for all recent Prime Ministers, that’s how the first past the post electoral system works (it needs reform). If David Cameron manages to scrape a majority in government on May 6th it looks like the Tories won’t have even 40% of the popular vote, so again 60% or more of those who bother to vote won’t want Cameron.

John Major became PM after Margaret Thatcher was ousted, he was still voted into power by the electorate in what ever constituency he stood in, just like Gordon Brown and then elected PM by their party.

We do not choose our Prime Minister, we choose the political party we want to lead the country and that party chooses it’s leader. That should not change unless you know of a better system?

I hate the concept of having to have an election if we get a new PM in the middle of a parliament. What stops a group who wants a change of government and thinks the polls support a particular party assassinating the current PM and forcing an election?

Do you really want something like that?

David