The Sun’s front page this morning is a classic typical of that newspaper.
Next to a picture of Gordon Brown emerging from the famous black front door, it screams:
SQUATTER HOLED UP IN No 10
Man, 59, refuses to leave house in Downing Street.
The point is well made. I know that, constitutionally, Brown is still Prime Minister. I know, too, that he still harbours a legitimate, if rather desperate-looking, ambition to try to stay on and do a deal with the Lib Dems.
However, the fact remains that the Labour Party emphatically lost the general election. For Brown to stay on in Downing Street and continue to enjoy the trappings of Prime Ministerial office is simply to rub the electorate’s nose in it.
Best for him to move out and await the outcome of negotiations.
Heath tried it, Gehard Schröder in Germany tried it, it didn’t work for them and it won’t work for him.
Great – so now one squatter is moving out, but only after sneaking another squatter in through the back-door as the next unelected prime minister…
It gets more farcical by the minute…