How long can Gordon Brown survive?

I have been following politics closely since I was a child, and before I am accused of being a geek (which is probably true), there were many of us talking about politics when I went to school. During the 1983 general election we had a class poll. Coming from Co. Durham, Labour won pretty handsomely. In those days I supported the views of my father, and expressed my Labour supporting views accordingly.

During the miners strike that started in the following year my political views started changing. I realised Arthur Scargill's only intention was to bring down the Thatcher government. I started questioning the politics of my family and much to their dismay - including some family members who stopped talking to me - I became a Conservative.

I have been following politics closely for the past 25 years. I cannot recall a week of the like we have just experienced. Can anyone remember a week when five cabinet ministers resigned? Coupled with that, can anyone remember a week when a minister announced their resignation during a prime minister's press conference? 

We are living in truly amazing times. There is not one senior member of the government who is prepared to tell the prime minister the game is up. It is unbelievable there is not one person in a senior position who cannot see the writing on the wall. There has to be someone who realises if Gordon Brown remains prime minister the Labour Party is going to crash and burn in a way it has never done in the past, yet no senior member of the government has the guts to put an end to this nonsense.

The prime minister has lost all moral authority to govern Britain. He has never had a mandate and lest we forget, we are not in a mid-term scenario. We are more than four years into this parliament. Labour is desperately clinging on to power. It is not - as Brown would have us - a government with ideas sorting out the problems this country is facing. He says he has the right team in place. He said that about his last team and many of them have deserted. A general election must be called. It has been too long since we, the voters, had our say who governed our country. This farce cannot continue and after the European Election results, I have a feeling more in the Labour Party will come to the same conclusion.