Will Brown's position become untenable if Labour loses Glasgow East ?

Question

Will Brown's position become untenable if Labour loses Glasgow East ?

Answer 1

It is now,

Answer 2

I figured it already was.

He doesn't have the popular vote so can't really justify being in power.

Answer 3

Broon is finished whatever the result of Glasgow East.

The end-game of all labour administrations is they spend money they don't have and end up with a collapsed economy.

It happened under Atlee, then Wilson, then Callaghan and it is happening to Brown.  He is a dead man walking, with the look of failure in his eyes.

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Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

not at all. no prime minister ever stepped down because of loosing a seat somewhere. Big issues as a deceiving the all nation  to go to war in Iraq never put Tony Blair down,...So Brown's position would not suffer for the election in Glasgow East.

Answer 6

People keep forgetting he is only acting Prime Minister. We haven't had a vote yet. I reckon we should officially record a verdict of No Confidence in him and his ability to lead the Country and force an election.

Answer 7

i hope so

Answer 8

What, more than it is now? Marginally. But he will neither resign nor call a general election. I'll confidently predict that he'll call a general election for the last possible date he can do so.

He must already know his party is about to get a hefty kicking at the next election. If he doesn't, he's the only person in the country who doesn't. Assuming he has got the message, he's not going to want to be out of a job anytime sooner than he has to be.

Personally, I think they'll scrape Glasgow East with a massively reduced majority. However much I'd like to see the SNP sending another MP south, I can't quite see the current majority being overturned.

Any English folk who moan about Scottish MP's voting on England only issues should be aware that the SNP do not vote on England only issues at Westminster, thereby being the only party which sends MP's from Scotland to do so.

Even without Scotland's Independence, it's in England's best interest to have an SNP majority in Scottish Westminster seats.