Ex-PM: "Thank you and goodbye"

It is all over for Mr Brown, ex-PM. He's been up to see Her Indoors up at The Palace, she's accepted.

Now for new kids on the block to take the reins and start the slashing within the bureaucracies that are so rife in the mother country.

Where Britain goes, so does New Zealand. Bring it on, post haste. Do not spare the rod!