Perhaps the only thing I am “looking forward to” about the Brown premiership is that he will be no longer able to hide away when the going gets tough. I think that having to appear at PMQs will be quite a shock to the system. I fear he will resort to his usual steamroller performance he gives at Select Committees. This may get him through the first few weeks, but a weekly diatribe of baffling statistics and incomprehensible rhetoric and platitudes will make him look evasive.
One subject on which Gordon has been particularly reticent is his preferred choice of Deputy Leader. As a party member I would like to know who he feels would be the best choice for the Labour Party. I personally feel that it would be a disaster if Jon Cruddas were elected (in spite of the enthusiastic support of the man off the telly). Would Gordon welcome a deputy with a contrasting vision for the party? Is he hoping that Harriet Harwoman gets the job? Plenty of MPs, Unions, CLPs and individual members (including that man off the telly) have publicly pledged their support for one of the candidates.
Why the silence Gordon? Perhaps he is afraid that we vote in someone other than his preferred candidate and that he looks a bit silly? Or perhaps he has been too busy working out which of our political opponents he wants to join his government?