Why is our Prime Minister still running our country?

He's still running it because the citizens won't stick together. Also the media shows it like there's no choice in the matter anyway.

Because the Labour Party has no-one to replace him without causing a split in the party. He will sit there until he has to call a General Election - June 2010 I think. I agree we should have had a General Election when Blair went - at least when he became Prime Minister he was already leader of the Labour Party & we knew what we were getting - Brown has been foisted on us by Blair & his cronies.

Because nobody in the cabinet has the guts to stand up and be counted. Anyway he is going to go down as a Prime Minister who was never elected having lost miserably when the people get their say.

that is spot on

Because: a) we're not France, and France wouldn't have stood for it and: b) We're too used to having a royal family, so passing power along isn't new to us.

When Maggie was ousted by the Tories, John Major took her place without a general election. The difference here is that he still did a good job and won the next election. Gordon will not win the next election so is clinging on to his time as PM for as long as he can. The legacy Tony and Gordon will leave for the Labour Party, is a future condemned to the opposition, with no chance of re-election for many years.

You vote for a party, not a leader. As for all the other rubbish you write, the recession would have happened anyway, and things would have been far worse if Cameron had been in charge as he would have let the banks collapse. The Tories haven't actually got a very good record of trying to keep people in jobs in times of trouble, they have never given a second thought to how many end up unemployed. Perhaps you would like to explain what Cameron and liar Osbourne would have done when the recession hit, as the truth is they didn't have a clue, not one single idea.

All I can say is ... soon. Just wait at least another 9 months and Labour will be in another oblivion. However, you may be glad to get labour back after about four months of a tory government. I hope that is not the case but when I was living in the US back in 2000, I was sick of the Clinton government and longed for the other party because I knew Gore would be a wimp, oh how wrong I was because Gore was more of a man than Bush.

The point is that Gordon Brown is not running the country!But a PM is running the country.That PM is nothing more than Peter Mandelson who is the real power in this country! The Labour Party in Westminster cannot make a move without his approval!