Start of a new era

[dang65]

You lost, fair and square, live with it

It doesn't justify a front page as stomach-churning as that.

[Churchill]

It doesn't justify a front page as stomach-churning as that.

You only sing when yer winning, sing when yer wiiiinnnnning! You only sing when yer winnning!

[DodgyAgent]

It doesn't justify a front page as stomach-churning as that.

Not as stomach churning as Gordon Brown's parting speech exploiting his two young sons

[Platypus]

Yep a couple of over privileged privately educated toffs, who have feck all in common with the average man/woman in this country.

Of course, this has never happened before:

After attending Durham's Chorister School from 1961 to 1966, [Tony] Blair boarded at Fettes College, an independent school in Edinburgh, where he met Charlie Falconer (a pupil at the rival Edinburgh Academy), whom he later appointed Lord Chancellor.

Alistair Darling was born in London the son of a civil engineer, Thomas, and his wife, Anna. He is the great-nephew of Sir William Darling, who was Conservative MP for Edinburgh South (1945–1957). He was educated in Kirkcaldy, and the private Loretto School, Musselburgh, East Lothian

[Ruth] Kelly was born in Limavady, Northern Ireland. She also lived briefly in the Republic of Ireland before moving to England where she attended Edgarley Hall - the prep school for Millfield School. She was privately educated at Sutton High School

Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, PC (born 19 November 1951) is a British Labour politician... educated at the Edinburgh Academy [an independent school]

[Sysman]

That sort of narrow minded chip on the shoulder northern (I guess you are northern) attitude is quite pathetic & is just as dangerous as racism..

I find that comment racist.

Seriously.

[d000hg]

Yep a couple of over privileged privately educated toffs

You're right. Don't pick people who've been to the the best schools and universities to get the best education money can buy.

who have feck all in common with the average man/woman in this country.

The average man in this country is not very bright and thinks beer and football are more important than the economy.

Why do you want a leader who is 'average' or 'in touch'? That's really not their job. When you have 60million people to lead, being able to empathise with bin-men isn't really going to fix the deficit.

[Doggy Styles]

You're right. Don't pick people who've been to the the best schools and universities to get the best education money can buy. The average man in this country is not very bright and thinks beer and football are more important than the economy.

Why do you want a leader who is 'average' or 'in touch'? That's really not their job. When you have 60million people to lead, being able to empathise with bin-men isn't really going to fix the deficit.

Genius, and true.

[MarillionFan]

Genius, and true.

Bollocks. IQ Distribution is Normal. But if you start with IT Contractors (then cough, you're right!)

[snaw]

You're right. Don't pick people who've been to the the best schools and universities to get the best education money can buy. The average man in this country is not very bright and thinks beer and football are more important than the economy.

Why do you want a leader who is 'average' or 'in touch'? That's really not their job. When you have 60million people to lead, being able to empathise with bin-men isn't really going to fix the deficit.

I'd think anyone who gets to the position of challenging for position of prime minister is far from average. Leading the country isn't an intelligence test, or we'd have smart PM's (And I don't recall too many of them). And FFS the guy who's job it is to fix the deficit, despite the best education money could buy has a 2nd clas degree in history from oxford, I;m not to sure how that qualifies him ....

Anyway, going to the best schools etc just means you've had a better education, it doesn't make you smarter. I'd go with the guy who rose above all that and still made it to the one who had it handed to him on a platter every day of the week.

[TimberWolf]

I'd think anyone who gets to the position of challenging for position of prime minister is far from average. Leading the country isn't an intelligence test, or we'd have smart PM's (And I don't recall too many of them). And FFS the guy who's job it is to fix the deficit, despite the best education money could buy has a 2nd clas degree in history from oxford, I;m not to sure how that qualifies him ....

Anyway, going to the best schools etc just means you've had a better education, it doesn't make you smarter. I'd go with the guy who rose above all that and still made it to the one who had it handed to him on a platter every day of the week.

How much of the donkey work (calculations, projections, numerical analysis, etc) does a Chancellor or PM do? Is he more of an source of half-baked ideas and the front man for the resulting analysis of backroom people who have been given a rough objective and who are less numerically challenged?