The Race To Run Knifecrime Island Ends For Gordon Brown

“We are watching the dying moments of the Labour administration,” said a BBC correspondent some moments ago. And we’ve been watching, some of us, for most of the day. Gordon Brown is expected to step out momentarily and announce that once he has been informed that a deal between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats is in place (there are all sorts of scenarios being bandied about) he will head to Buckingham Palace and tell the lady with the dogs that he’s stepping down as Prime Minister of Knifecrime Island. If I have to stare at that lectern in front of that black door for any longer I am going to go crazy. And yet: This has been kind of amazing to follow. It has been, I don’t know, fun, even? Every gesture analyzed, every movement scrutinized for deeper import… it’s democracy (or some form of it) in action! And here he comes. And there he goes.