July 28, 2008 (LPAC)--Across the British press on Sunday, there was a blizzard of articles with a single message: It's time for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to go. The sentiment came in the wake of the by-election July 24, in Glasgow East, Scotland, in which, in a stunning upset, the Scottish National Party candidate won the Parliament seat, in a district that Brown's Labour Party had held for decades.

*John Rentoul, editorial page commentator for the Independent writes, in an article entitled, "Now It Is When, Not If, for Mr. Brown": "The result of the Glasgow East by-election was the worst possible for the Prime Minister and the best possible for the Labour Party, because it makes Gordon Brown's early departure more certain." Rentoul tries to make the Labour Party's loss, a matter of Brown's personality and incompetence: He quotes a poll that were a national election held tomorrow, the Conservative candidate for Prime Minister would win by 22%; when the same voter is asked his or her party preference, the Tories are a mere 3% ahead of Labour.

That Brown is an incompetent fool is not in doubt. But the simultaneous disintegration of the world financial system, and of the British Empire, are of over-arching importance. As is always the case in Britain, the knives are out. The two leading contenders to take over for Brown are Foreign Minister David Miliband, and former Foreign Minister Jack Straw. Miliband, a Blairite, is a member of the Fabian apparatus, and a key part of the apparatus that is pushing for creating a genocidal Lombard League of Cities. Rentoul quotes a supporter of Miliband's: "Gordon can do it the easy way or the hard way; the only question is how much he wants to try to take the whole government down with him."

*Another article in the Independent, entitled, "Plot To Dump Brown," states, "On the day Barack Obama swept into Downing Street for talks with the Prime Minister, members of the Cabinet were already discussing a future without Mr. Brown as leader."

*The July 27 Times carries an article, headlined, "Gordon Brown's Quaking Now."

*The July 27 Sunday Telegraph runs a feature entitled, "Jack Staw: Removing Gordon Brown `would be a big mistake.'" The Telegraph treats the statement by Jack Straw--which no one believes--as signalling that people are lining up, behind the curtain, to kick Brown while he's down and replace him.