Brown is deluded.

Water

"'I have been entrusted', he said, of leading the country" maybe by the Labour party but certainly not by the Country and its people as a whole.

Ian C

Agreed - but worse not only for Labour, but for the country as a whole. He needs ousting and it should be as easy and expected as his foisting on us was.

Simon Orr

Quite, I wish there was an interviewing journalist with the intelligence and courage to take him up on this when he uses this 'message' as the answer to EVERY question he is asked.

Albert Hall

We can but hope he stays where he is for a bit longer. Just to make sure those dozy enough to still want to vote for the nutter and his crazy crew have got their bellyful.

BrianSJ

Capt Ahab will pursue his white whale to the end. The white whale is of course a delusion - maybe something to do with his father. He left the shores of our reality a long time ago.

Beedeekay

"And the longer he remains, the worse and more lingering Labour's defeat will be."

If for nothing else than what he did to ruin the pensions of millions of us, bloody good job!

Nicholas

He almost said "instructed" but then corrected himself to say "entrusted". So who or what has "instructed" or "entrusted" him to preside over the continuing misery of the British? The ghosts of Labour Past? Common Purpose? The Shadowy Bureaucrats of the EU? President Hu of China, whom he seems to admire and spends a lot of time talking to on the telephone?

A Theologian

Brown, I am convinced, is, not Macbeth (he could talk big time) but Richard III. Cameron now looks like Henry V. And Boris a redeemed Toby Belch.

Robert Williams

Morland in The Times shares your view

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/cartoon/

kinglear

Absolutely. But he was deluded from day one. I happen to believe none of them ever had any real principles beyond getting to power and clinging on. I think Blair only ever wanted that, not actually to make things better. Gordon probably thought he could, despite all the evidence of the last century that central control is a disaster. But Gordo also thought by being tricky clever and underhand he could milk people without them noticing. That's true to a certain extent, but when they DO notice, its a 180% turn for them, which is what has now happened

Jennie

I still think it's 'the economy, stupid'. If inflation for essential items were not going though the roof, the electorate would not have turned on Labour in such droves - and probably both Ken and Tamsen would have won.

Bpb

Stephen,

That's the first correct analysis I have read that would seem to agree with what most people actually think.

Brown should F. off, he should also take his ghastly colleagues with him.

Frank Pulley

Great post. Stephen, best on the topic so far that I've read anywhere. Succinct too!

Augustus

The message is certainly clear. After the scale of this truly historic Conservative success, Crewe is now another word for Comeuppance.

David Boothroyd

Gordon Brown has been entrusted with running the country by Her Majesty the Queen.

Tina

You are spot on.