Now Cabinet turns on wounded Brown
The first cracks in the Cabinet's support for Gordon Brown appeared yesterday as Labour MPs urged senior ministers to tell him to quit after the party's humiliating defeat in the Glasgow East by-election. Although cabinet ministers said there would be no immediate attempt to oust the Prime Minister, some predicted he would face a concerted move to force him to stand down in September – possibly before the Labour conference, which starts on 20 September. Ministers acknowledged that the disastrous and unexpected defeat at the hands of the Scottish National Party, by 365 votes, could prove to be a "tipping point" for Mr Brown. "The mood is changing," said one source in the Cabinet. "It is starting to cement." Indeed, the shift is so stark that cabinet ministers are preparing for a possible leadership con-*test*-('"). And The Independent has learnt that James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, and a rising star in the Cabinet, would not stand against David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, should he decide to run if Mr Brown were to depart. The move has echoes of the pact between Mr Brown and Tony Blair after John Smith, who was Labour leader, died in 1994. snip http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/now-cabinet-turns-on-wounded-brown-877788.html He's getting on with the job

While getting on with the job he should remind his scurvy mutinous swabs that it is the PM, and the PM alone, who can ask Her Majesty for Dissolution. This is his "nuclear option" in the present circumstances. "Shut up! Or I'll call an election. And YOU will be on the Dole!" :wink: I think he will stay, and he will hang on until the very last week. And the longer he stays the rockier "rock bottom" will become! Poor Broone! :lol:

I think the only option is a general election. Labour can't foist yet another unelected Prime Minister on the country. Even they must realise their time has run out.