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Time to go, Gordon

11 May 05:40am

Filed under: British Election, Gordon Brown, Great Britain, Labour Party

Update: As the Times Online reported earlier this morning, Gordon Brown has since decided to resign as leader of the Labour party. Here is the full text version of his resignation speech

What if you threw an election and nobody won?

Here's looking at you, Brown. Picture: Getty Images.

What if everybody lost?

That is exactly what’s happened in Britain where the only absolute winners from last Thursday’s election are the UK Greens who won their first seat in Parliament.

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Randal says:

05:35pm | 11/05/10

Thank you for your contribution @marley and such conventions have been enshrined under British Common Law for centuries and can be traced back to the Magna Carta, the Civil War, The Restoration, The Act of the Union, Bill of Rights etc…etc… Essentially in Britain the monarch initially held all power… Read more »
marley says:

05:10pm | 11/05/10

I’ve always understood that, in the Westminster system, a government can fall when it loses either an actual “no confidence” vote , or any vote involving the budget in Parliament. I suppose you’d have to go back to the days of Robert Peel to trace the written origins of the… Read more »

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