So it's June 27th when old Tone will pack in his job at No 10 Downing Street and rejoin the back benches.

It can't happen to quickly for me. I can't stand him. As a person, I'm sure he is very amiable, but I think he has become absorbed in his own cult of personality over the last few years.

He took us into a conflict in Iraq that has all the hallmarks of becoming a more recent version of Viet Nam. He has lead a Government where it's members have consistently lied about their behaviour. He has taken away the ability of the Labour Party to make it's own policies, introduced links between business and the Health Service, failed the Third World and sucked up to George W Bush, all in the interests of leaving his mark on history. The guy is a grade A, certified wanker.

The sad thing is that I'm not convinced that Gordon Brown is any different. I hear the rhetoric about Brown being his own man, but I think he will end up leading us down a very similar path, and ending up much as John Major did. Personally speaking, I will be voting for whoever stands against him.

With a new leader, I can see the Labour Party hanging on to power in 2 years time at the General Election, albeit with a much reduced majority. That will give Brown 6 years as PM. After that, it's anyone's guess as to what happens.

What has made me laugh today is the calls by both the LibDems and the Tories for a snap election? Why? Are they hoping to scare the new leader into having Parliament dissolved? Rightly or wrongly, the people of Britain voted the Labour Party into office. Was there a General Election when Thatcher was ousted?

Precedent has been set already, and surely the new PM deserves the chance to establish some of their own policies and take the country in a new direction over the next couple of years (or not as is their right). Then we can make an informed decision at the next General Election (in 2009 or 2010).

If I had to summarise Blair's term of office, I would say disappointing. In 1997, I worked from 7am until 10pm getting people to vote, manning polling stations, knocking on doors, driving cars and entering numbers into computers. In the end Hugh Bayley was re-elected in York and Tony Blair took office. There was an air of hope about the country. We expected a change after 18 years of Tory mis-rule. Much was promised, either tacit or implicit, and things did change.
However, the last few years seem to have become bogged down in the same lies and deceit that contaminated the Tories term of office. Maybe it's true that power corrupts, but surely we need to find a new way now, before it's too late.

Mr Brown, if you do take office as PM, make Ed Balls your Chancellor, and bring the troops home from Iraq. If America wants to have militants kill their troops, it's up to them, but we deserve better.

Tony Blair, Prime Minister for only a little while longer. Thank f**k!