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Well, it appears that Gordon Brown's remarks that were caught on tape where he called one of his constituents a "bigot" has ended his career:

On Friday, Britain faced a hung Parliament for the first time since the 1970s, a situation in which no party has an overall majority and so cannot pass legislation without support from another party. It is unclear how this relatively unusual situation will play out here, but there are a number of possibilities.

First, the Conservatives, who won the most seats, could try to form a coalition with one or more smaller parties. The leading contender for that role would be the Liberal Democrats, lagging a distant third, who would relish the chance to play kingmaker but have been coy about how they would go about it.

Alternatively, the Tories could seek to make deals with individual members of all the small parties in Parliament -- the Ulster Unionists, the Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru and others. Some of those parties are traditional ideological opponents of the Tories, and it is unclear at this point whether all the small-party votes combined would even be enough to allow the Conservatives to reach the 326 seats needed to form a majority.

Read on how the Brits across The Pond will figure out who will lead them...

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