""If we follow your logic, Tony Blair wasn't elected, Sir Winston Churchill wasn't elected, Lloyd George wasn't elected, even your heroine, The Thatcher Bitch, wasn't elected. It's not a presidential system here, the general public don't get to elect a Prime Minister - ever - just their own constituency MP.""

Fallacious reasoning. All the others you mention were leading their parties when those parties got into government, so they were in that sense elected by popular vote, because general elections are rarely about constituency issues, they are party based, and that includes party leader support.

Brown was not, and what is more, he knew he wasn't the choice of the populace, which is why he funked the election he could have called with a reasonable chance of winning.

The people have not had the chance to vote on Brown's position, but in just over three weeks they will.

Don T.