Assuming that Gordon Brown wins the Labour Party vote and takes over as PM next month, what do you guys think he will be like as a PM? How will he be different from Blair?

<regurgitating BBC news>Personally, I'm a bit cynical about them dropping "New Labour" from the website and ditching the Blair image of charm and spin, because Brown was one of the leading architects of the New Labour regime.</regurgitating BBC news>
But where was Brown when Blair was invading Iraq? Where was he when all this betrayal of socialist ideals was going on? Trident. Council Tax. The list goes on, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer but he did nothing to speak out. You remember the positive press coverage of Blair as he took office?

It seems a bit like a satire show (Bremner, Bird and Fortune?orHave I Got News for You?) i watched a couple of weeks ago where they have Tony Blair disappearing like the Tardis from Doctor Who and being replaced by Brown with the "whum, whum, whum" effect. It's a new PM, same ideas, same broken promises i expect. Brown can say as much as he wants about "policy before image" and go out of his way to be opposed to the things the public disliked about Blair (which is just PR) but we'll need to see what he actually does before we can form an opinion. Seeing as there are unlikely to be elections in the next few months (too risky for Labour) we haven't really got any say in the matter.