In the wake of the Labour party's terrible showing in local elections, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has reshuffled his cabinet-even appointing the British version of Donald Trump, although that is a terribly inapt comparison, to an advisory role-as another five cabinet members have resigned, one just moments ago. Brown held a press conference in which he insisted he would not resign; Alan Johnson, everyone's candidate to succeed him, has not definitively ruled out a challenge to Brown, although he has agreed to serve as Home Secretary. Still, it's not yet clear if the opposition Conservative party will get the 40% of the national vote they'd need for a decent majority at the next Parliamentary election, and will not be for several hours, by which point I will be long gone and probably fairly well into a bottle. So we'll mop up on Monday.

Goog God! The Guardian has a "Labor in Crisis" page that's updating every minute. Liveblogging the colapse of a government! Twitter is going to melt!
Good god, but goog has a ring to it...
isgordonbrownstillprimeminister.com
the comments on the Guardian, Times and Telegraph newspapers these days are FANTASTIC.
From Caroline Flint's resignation letter, in which she accuses Gordon Brown of using her as "female window dressing":
"Another self serving tart who thinks of herself and not the people nor the Labour Party. Go and get lost along with other losers like Byers, Purnell & Blears. You are trying to bring down a decent man but it will end up in tears for you. You are two faced."
Posted by: Malcolm Little | 5 Jun 2009 18:22:17
It looks like he's purging Blair's people. He should have done it when he came on.