no charisma, the job is too much for hime blah blah blah. Everybody keeps bitching about that and I don't understand where all this anti-sympathy comes from.

1) Charisma is important to win elections. As far as I see, he is prime minister already. What matters now is what he does, not what he says or the way he says it.

2) How does it seem "it's too much for him"?? It's one week since he is PM and for the past 10 years he has been the 2nd most powerful man in Britain. How the heck can people consider him incapable is beyond my understanding. Gordon Brown is a mastermind and the fact that he has made it to the top of the political scene speaks for itself. And please, don't tell me it was favorable circumstances or whatever...

...ahh, whatever. This unfavorable attitude simply pisses me off. You can criticize him in one year but what the press does now(even publications like The Economist) is ****in' stupid. It's like "He doesn't have the looks to be Prime Minister!" - well, who the **** cares how he looks? You wouldn't want Hugh Grant to be prime minister, now would you?