Has the civil war in the Labour Party started in earnest yet, or will this early action just fizzle out leaving us with a lame duch administration? It has shown our much vaunted and so-called "Democracy" is in urgent need of reform. Bring on Proportional Representation, ...and soon.

Neil, Gloucestershire, England

It says much about the state of natural democracy in this country when we have failures like Blair cavorting around the world's political stage without constraint and directing the Labour Government from without. Brown is a fool to have encouraged him. Time for the electorate to step in.

Robert El-Cid., Hull., East Yorks.,

All bluster, nobody has the balls to dump Brown, and he won't resign.

This is the death of a Labour government, and with the Unions controlling the purse strings, there won't be another Labour Government for years.

This is because Nulab have actually achieved very little over the past 11 years

Steve, Chepstow, UK

A milliband is a thousandth of a band. A lone trumpet?

Paul Freeman, London, England

Tony Blair and like it or lump it he was a good PM
Andy, Leeds,

A good PM Andy? Didn't he sex us up into a WAR? Cash for honours? Interviewed by police? Fiddle his expenses for a taxpayer funded property empire, there's a sucker born to vote every minute.

Rob Bain, Derby,

If ministers are one hundred per cent behind him, Mr Brown should be very worried - knife crime is on the increase!

B Redfern, Zdole, Slovenia

It actually took a ditherer like Gordon Brown and the economic downturn to make you all realise just what you had in Tony Blair and like it or lump it he was a good PM, but you all shouted out for change and when you got it you did'nt like it one bit. Well tough!

Andy, Leeds,

Labour = SS Titanic, post iceberg. The Scottish stern section is about to break away and plunge to its doom. The officers are in a huddle scared to take action and down in the boiler room the Union stokers have stopped shovelling. The captain has his telescope to his blind eye and sees no disaster.

Peter Thomson, Kirkcudbright, Scotland

Yes lets get more council tennants with no deposit and no money to have the right to buy so that they can become another sub prime morgage , have the house repossessed and sold to some crumby buy to let landlord. Good Idea brown, keep them coming. Number 10 will be repossessed soon.

kenny livitt, hove,

If Brown was an honourable man, he would admit his many failings and resign. Unfortunately, his over-inflated ego and stuborness will prevent him from following Michael Vaughan's fine example of resigning his captaincy unselfishly for the sake of the country. Brown's scorched earth policy continues.

Melchet, Edinburgh, UK

No new leader, cabinet reshuffle, new policy initiatives (oh, please!) will make the slightest bit of difference. WE JUST WANT THEM OUT!!! The first things Cameron needs to do is provide a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty (it's called "listening") and repealing as much labour legislation as possible.

JohnC, Bangkok, Thailand

Bruin's mistake was to carry on with Blair's neo-Tory agenda which has and had eroded Labour's core support for years- now they are just flat unpopular across the board but Gordon just can't grasp that

peter c, devizes, wessex

Blair sends under equipped troops to Iraq and is treated like royalty and Brown is castigated for attemting to rescue a sinking ship. Labour politicians are now showing their true colours.

Ian, London,

Here's an idea for Labour - go on squabbling and stabbing yourselves in the back, but please do it in opposition. Make room for someone who can run and rebuild the country. Go. Now.

Chris, London,

If Brown remains leader, the Labour party will be ruined for years.

If Milliband (still in his political nappies) ousts him, that will be the end of Labour for at least a generation.

PLEASE vote for Milliband !

Robert Kingsbury, Leeds, England

I bet Blair is right behind him - with a knife. It won't do any good, we want rid of Labour now. Blair wasn't a good PM he was a good PR man who made huge mistakes & was known as Bliar for very good reasons.The benign economic situation kept him in power & no credible alternative. Both have changed

Donna Walker, Effingham, England

By co-incidence, BBC2 showed an epic biopic of Julius Caesar on Saturday. The closing titles told us that none of the conspirators lived more than three years after the murder and none died a natural death. He who wields the sword never wears the crown.

Alan Jowett, Manchester, England

I thought that it couldn't get worse for GB. Now the allegations of the Blair memo followed by No.10 ordering Cabinet members to voice support. I suspect a rise in MLR will add furhter misery.
I wonder GB didn't do a Reginald Perrin whilst on Holiday. DOOMED DOOMED

V Cooper, Somerset, UK

Absolutely arrogant to the last.
The Blairites just don't get it, We're fed up with the lot of them.
The only change of leader we need is via a General Election.
Then we the people can finally have an alternative Government.

Stephen Holmes, Withington, UK

Blairs failures include appointing a prudent chancellor for 10 years. The damage can only be repaired with a general election a new broom is what most right minded Britons want.
Labour had it's chance with a large majority in 1997, but Blairs inability to deligate ment the apathy continued till now

Dave Farmer, Broxbourne, England

If I were Brown I would spike their guns by calling a shook general election and ending their so called political careers forever, after all they have all treated Gordon Brown with a lack of respect from day one
As for Miliband becoming leader of the Labour party, I think Bambi has more chance.

billybob, lincoln, U k

The sheer arrogance of Blair and all of his cronies. Their actions have brought the UK to its knees.

After a year of Brown as PM they think they can blame him for all our woes.

We all know who did this to our country. Shame on all of them. The mess they have left cannot be put right.

John Moore, Paphos, Cyprus

Look Labour - all you are doing is arguing amongst yourselves like a bunch of petty school-girls, when you should be governing this country.

CALL A GENERAL ELECTION.

S Wiliams, London,

It's just like 1978/79 - the end for Labour.

Andrew, St.Ives, Cambs,

Hasn't the Labour government got better things to do with their time then play games and plot ways of backstabbing their colleagues??? If thats what they do with someone they are close to goodness knows what they would do with the General Public?????

Rob, Doha, Qatar

If Brown goes there has to be an immediate general election or Britain will loose even more credibility with the democratic countries of the world.

John, Bangkok, Thailand

Its fun to watch the rats fighting in a sinking sack.

Mitch, Wolverhampton, England

Blair Mouthing It Thats A Laugh,He Was A Disaster When He Was In Charge Brought The Nation To A Laughing Stock,Beliitled The Post Of Primeminster.
All Politicians Are Liars When Not Kissing Babies They Are
Stealing Thier Lollipops.

Thomas, Surbiton, uk

not at all.

now the brown allies are for the first time experience what the blair allies can do.

What brown allies having been doing when Blair was in power.

What Goes Around Comes Back Around

vishal, london, UK

The Labour government is in meltdown. They have run out of ideas and are now in-fighting. There will have to be a general election early in the new year

David, London,

The unions are out of touch, Brown can do nothing to build a postive image. He shold be graceful and bow out and admit he made a mistake. No one every wanted him, it was a misplaced adventure by Labour to let him get in the position without a wider vote. The British people should be trusted!!

james, southampton, england

Modern British politicians are like dodgy rogue car sales men. They will tell you anything to be trusted only later to let you down!

Tim, London, UK

Did you perhaps mean res ipsa loquitur? (And "handsome" with a d?) It applies more to you ad hominem than to Blair. Like it or not, the advice with which he is said to agree was entirely correct. Blame the messenger.

Paul Joseph, London, UK

Blairites don't need to oust Brown as his position has become untenable. The problem is we have a debt of £550Bn to service which costs £31Bn a year going into a recession. Now who was holding the purse strings when this and the surplus balance was squandered? Its only a question of when he goes.

Andy, London,

Byers and Clarke: two incompetent ministers, both sacked by Blair. What gives them the right to sit in judgment on Brown ?
Or does it take a failure to recognise one ?

Rick, London, England

Bruin's mistake was to carry on with Blair's neo-Tory agenda which has and had eroded Labour's core support for years- now they are just flat unpopular across the board but Gordon just can't grasp that.

peter c, devizes, wessex

Blair was in a frenzy in his last year in office trying to find a way of establishing his legacy, so much of what he had done not leaving him the opportunity he had reckoned on.

He need not have worried because almost everyone, whatever their politics, remember him very much the better for Brown.

Stephen Felce, Enfield, UK

Blairites fail to see that any effort to oust Brown will backfire, either by shifting preferences to Cameron, or by prompting sympathy for Brown. More generally, Labour will fail at every hurdle until it unwinds the vast mess it has created lo' this past decade.

David, Birmingham ,

now we see Blair as the spiteful "little" man we always new he was. handsome is as hansome does and petty and cheap doings show a petty and cheap man or, as we lawyers would say, res ipsur loquitur

peter c, devizes, wessex