I'll tell you something... I didn't like the sound of Brown. I have NEVER voted (at the age of 41) because I have found little in our political system to motivate me to do so, yet I have heard more sense spoken by Brown than I think any other political leader I have ever heard. So far at least I'm interested. I'll be watching for a slip up.

I'm not interested in the media hype, the spectical, his clothes, his persona: I'm interested in the clear logical thinking, the intelligent application of power, the right to free speech and expression and the right to privacy. Mr Gordon Brown: Bring back our pride in our country, and start at the top - by being truthful and respectable.

Paul, Milton Keynes,

So if Britain is subject to nuclear attack, Brown will call a debate before authorising retaliation. This rather leaves us defenceless. If he wants to abolish the nuclear deterrent he should be up front about it, not hide the substance as he did with all of his budget speeches.

Tony G, Harrogate, UK

Tony Blair wanted to change Britain into France or Germany. Gordon Brown wants to turn it into the United States. David Cameron wants the Tories to look like Lib Dems. Muslims want a Muslim Britain. Who listens to the electorate, who want a Great Britain they recognize? Noone. Something's gotta give!!!

elizabeth schumann, Paris, France

Say the SAS were quietly going about their business in an African nation, gathering intelligence, preparing to free some UN peacekeepers taken hostage, without the express permission of the nation they happened to be in or the UN Security Council. Technically such a covert operation would be an act of war. Would Parliament have to (publicly) sanction that too? By the way, the scenario is pretty much how we came to be more active in Seirra Leone in 2000, which is almost universally held to be a successful armed intervention. If Parliament had debated it first, would the hostages have been freed unharmed, and a failed state given a new chance?

G, London,

Questioning the need for all this change, is it just for the publicity? To make what seems like big changes the moment he steps into Number 10? Seems like what we had before was working well enough, so why change? Voting age lowered to 16? Total joke! Half of sixteen year olds whould have no clue! I'm 16 myself, and studying Politics for A-Level. Ruining the British Government system. We don't need a Bill of rights like in America. That's not us. That's them. New Lanour need to stop looking across the pond, and come up with some new ideas of their own.

Chloe, London,

Big Geez is right

The liberal-lefties are incapable of making a decision of this magnitude and by the time they have kicked it around the civil liberties, human rights and politically correct field I fear it will be too late. Still it takes the pressure of McGordon's shoulders.

Danilka, Bedford, England

Exactly. The League of Nations all over again.

Ben, York,

This is an interesting development but the devil will be in the detail. Let's bide our time.

Peter Hargreaves, Stockport, Cheshire, England

I see, in a move designed to be more populist that rooted in reality, Mr Brown would rather our MPs spend time debating while we are under attack?
Gord help us!

Big Geez, London, England