It does tend to amuse me when people say who was elected etc. I suppose if you are a member of a party, you can say you were part of electing them.

However, the British people have never ever voted for a Prime Minister. They vote for a party and their local MP as a member of that party.

I suppose we are somewhat Presidential in that the personality of the MP leading said party influences your vote, ( I have a lot of time for our local MP, a Tory, but have told him I couldn't vote for his party's manifesto.)

But the fools who keep saying nobody voted for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister are correct but not in the ignorant sense of their presumption.

Milliband wasn't exactly electable, even if you remove all the media silliness over his personality. He failed to combat the Tory tactic of blaming the last Labour government for the economic world downturn, despite Brown receiving accolades internationally for being the world leader who almost single handedly prevented it from getting worse.

Considering the story's voted with the government on each and every economic measure during that time, the only charge that could stick would be selling gold cheap as chancellor and seeing PFI as better than treasury investment in public services. Big cock ups, yes but easily combated. Milliband failed to combat fairy stories, let alone reality.

Dr/Mr Mather isn't logged in to my knowledge. I was looking for him at Whitby if you know better..