Dear oh dear, the NEC really are living in a bubble world..

Ok then, fine. Head into the next election with the least popular politician in a generation at the helm. See what happens.

Owen, London, UK

Standing for leadership of the Labour Party just now would be politcally equivalent to taking up banking! Are people like Cairns so battle fatigued they can't see that anyone with the smarts to be Prime Minister also has the smarts to see that leading Labour is not a good career option right now!

Alex, Inverness,

having destroyed the once all powerful Labour movement, the Blairites and Brownites of New Labour might as well chuck it now - before they destroy the country. The sad thing is that they leave the ordinary working punters without the protection that their forefathers made sacrifices to achieve.

bill robertson, eaglesham, glasgow,

Ever seen the name of a Prime Ministerial candidate on a ballot sheet, assuming any of you have ever voted? You elect an MP, and the leader of the party with the most MP's becomes PM. "Unelected" post-war PM's include Major, Callahan, Home, Macmillan & Eden. Please try to understand this!

Davie, Poole, UK

Er... never heard of him?

Jamie Soren, Dundee, UK

Gordon Brown should have the determination to replace, without flinching, all members of the cabinet, should they all wish to resign.
I am sure better replacements can be easily found.

RolfW, London, UK

I can't stand Gordon Brown. I haven't trusted him since 1p increase in NI and have found him and his party to be dishonest time and time again.

However, in this time of market upheaval we need do not need the distraction of a new Labour leader election. He'll be unemployed soon enough.

Paul, Glasgow,

Looks like people have forgotten the three home grown recessions, mass unemployment, 8% inflation and 15% interest rates under the Tories, happy day’s. The public finances were in melt down, despite having millions from the sale of nationalised industries, like British Gas, BP and BT, to their city friend’ s And now we all pay huge hikes in fuel, as the market decides what we pay and government
Is powerless to act.

Nig, Blackwood , Wales

Its hard to understand why anyone respectable would cling to office in the face of all this.

Why would you ?

M Reid, Northampton,

gosh, when a junior assistant tea boy resigns you know there is real trouble ahead

peter c, Devizes, Wessex

sorry to harp on but Idid say that the curse of Magna Carta would do for Bruin in the end

peter c, Devizes, Wessex

Wonderful, the Western banking system is crashing down around our ears, thousands of people are left unemployed overnight...and what are Labour doing, absolutely nothing! If ever we needed proof that this government is bereft of ideas and has no solutions then here it is.

Dean, Manea, Cambs, England

Should Brown stay to ensure the utter implosion of the Labour Party? Or for the sake of the nation should he gently fade into the political wilderness where he belongs?

Eric Tentpole, London,

A change of leader won't make a blind bit of notice. The same rotten policies will be pushed by his replacement just with different spin. It's a change of party not leader that we need.

Charlie, Nottingham,

Brown will do anything to still in power, Now the rebels know what we the people feel like after not being able to vote on the EU.

phillip, swansea, uk

Any body who wants to get off,then should be let go.Also Mr Darling should be introduced to a specialist councilor who deals specifically in depressive outlooks,and told to stop talking the country down,in front of a huge audience of potential investors eg the general public.

flaga, poulton le fylde, uk

Go Cairns you traitor. We don't want fair weather MPs in the party. Don't you know hat loyalty is?

Scott, London,

Gordon Brown time is up ,he must do, what is honorable to do. Enough is enough the British public wants him, to step down, without any further delay. The Prime Minister has to understand that he has overcome his welcome a long time ago. Its time that we need a PM that we have voted in POWER.

Daniel Salaman, London- Nicosia, England - Cyprus