It seems that Robert Mugabe is more popular in his country than Gordon Brown is over here. What are we to make of that?

Ian, London,

Do we have the actual figures?

The ZEC must have them on a spreadsheet and it should be easy enough to compare them to MDC's figures that they wrote down from the V11. Alternatively they take two lever arch files with 900 pages in each and compare them??

Odd gap otherwise.

Jo, Olney, UK

Plato, Ely,
What a short memory you have - how many years has Nulabour (especially Brown) been taking the credit for riding the wave of World economic growth? They cannot have it both ways.

Bill, Ramsey,

Plato, perhaps you believe that the current economic mess the U.K. is in has nothing to do with the tax & spend policy of Brown? With such high government debt we have very little ability to weather any storm. With the SNP in power, independance is not far away, OK then scotland will be foreign.

Adrian, aldershot, ENGLAND

Be patient!
Zimbabwe's electoral commission may report its results before Florida's electoral commission in 2000. Remember ?

Michel BODIANSKY, Paris, France

Adrian ridiculous ideas. Pm are not elected but chosen by the ruling party by your reasoning J Major etc was not PM because they were chosen by the party
This was a local election defeat not a national and is clearly driven by world economic woes which govt cannnot control
Scots not foreigners

plato, ely, uk

It's important to remember that a British Prime Minister is never elected by the population! Voters vote for their local Member of Parliament and the party with the largest number of MPs decides who amongst them should be Prime Minister - you and I don't get a say in that!

John, London, UK

Hitler (mugabe imprison and/or kill all opponents) clearly has his Goebbels Tell a big enough lie and people may believe
Letter from G Brown saying UK will 'invade' ZBE what tosh. Uk has enough on its plate without trying to recolonise Africa which would be condemned by UN anyway

plato, ely, uk

I just can't understand Mugabe's desire to stay in power. He has stolen more than enough money to enjoy a comfortable retirement. It's like the captain of the Titanic clinging on to the wheel as the ship sinks. He should let someone else have a turn at pillaging what remains of the country !

andy James, Lyon, France

I feel for Zimbabwe, I too live in a country with an unelected foreign Prime Minister, who has just suffered the biggest election defeat in modern history, who taxes me to death, but yet he will still not listen to the people and go......

Adrian, aldershot, ENGLAND

Robert Mugabe will go down in history as the Josef Fritzl of Africa.
Rape, murder,control freak. There is a similarity in looks, if not a little more effeminate.

David Wallace, Bristol, England

There will never be peace in Africa untill people like Mugabe are gone and the states of Africa unite as one. As a united states of Africa they could become a powerful democratic nation, but will the west allow such a situation to develop?

john strange, Sunbury 3429, Australia

MDC has been behaving as if they are the opposition & yet they won. What did they expect from Mugabe - a handshake and hearty congratulations??. They must stop daydreaming and play with Mugabe at his own game. This means starting now to campaign for the run off. They resist the cry baby mentality.

Mugochi, Masvingo, Zimbabwe

Dear Timesonline,
Are all those news from Zimbabwe positifs? And what about the today's news about the elections in Great-Britain? I told you already that Monsieur Gordon Brown has , must, looking to be elected before give hin the right, la parole, to talk about elections elsewhere.
Have a nice day

Marius, Montreal, Canada