[BeautifulBurnout]

I really really hope that Nu Labour have the common sense to get rid of him now, for all our sakes. Not because it means they will win the next election, because I think that is a done deal. But Brown has become so unpopular that it may end up with the Tories having the kind of landslide victory in 2010 that Nu Labour had in 97 - and that is dangerous for democracy, because once again you will have another half-generation of a parliament unable to do anything about the worst excesses of the Executive.

The separation of powers - executive, parliament, judiciary - is supposed to serve as a system of checks and balances to prevent any one area having supremacy. When you have an overwhelming majority in parliament, and MPs who are career politicians because they have to give up any other career to become full-time MPs, you end up with people will rarely go against what their party whip tells them to do. So a cabinet made up of a handful of politicians decides what is "best for the country" and their minions make it so, with virtually no challenge from the House. There may be mutterings for a day or two, but the Bills get passed and they move on to the next thing. (Who is still talking about 42 days detention right now, for example? Despite David Davis's attempts to keep the subject alive in people's minds.)

Combine that with the ability, as was recently demonstrated with the Anonymity of Witnesses business, to rush through legislation at the drop of a hat (thanks to your huge majority) to overturn a House of Lords ruling, and you have an all-powerful executive that can do what the hell it likes with no-one to stop it.

Dictatorship is only a small step away.

So yes. Get rid of Brown now. Bring in someone less mired in the Blair government's failures and hope that over the next two years there will be enough people still prepared to vote Nu Labour to avoid a landslide victory for the Tories and keep some kind of sensible balance in the House of Commons.