Gordon Brown's Resignation

A little while ago I signed a petition on the Number 10 website calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

The petition simply read:

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resign."

The petition, instigated by Kalvis Jansons, closed on Thursday, 22nd October 2009. The petition received 72,234 signatures.

The government's response is:

"The Prime Minister is completely focussed on restoring the economy, getting people back to work and improving standards in public services. As the Prime Minister has consistently said, he is determined to build a stronger, fairer, better Britain for all."

Which in my view doesn't seem to be an answer to the petition. They could have included the line 'The Prime Minister is determined to continue to lead the government...' and then continue with the rest of the original response.

Demand a General Election from the Prime Minister

Conservative Future is today launching a campaign to put pressure on the Prime Minister to call a General Election.

Members and supporters will be writing to Downing Street to call for an election, so that the voters can choose who they want to lead them out of this recession. We are starting this campaign as it is our members’ generation that is going to be saddled with the debt of this Government.

The Government got us into this debt and we don’t believe it will be able to get us out of it.

The campaign has a standard letter (download) that members and supporters can download, sign, print and then send to Downing Street.