All over by Christmas?

Mike Smithson is surmising that Brown is to be eased out with some sort of dignity by Christmas.

Eased out is good. With dignity is not. Still, half a loaf...

Suppose he does go. What will he do then? What could he possibly do? (Not that I care.) Sit in the Lords, glowering? Or bugger off to a sinecure where he can show all the other boys his Moral Compass behind the bike sheds and bore them all to death with tales of his great achievements and his sainted father? God help us all if the IMF should give him a job from which he could pull Britain's economic strings, in the operiod of maelstrom he is about to bequeath to the next government. But he'd think himself in Heaven to have a job from which he could lecture and persecute and (he would hope) humiliate Cameron, ordering him about on economic policy while he's up to his arse in the crocodiles which Brown has bred and installed in the swamp especially for the purpose of making Dave's life a misery. I wouldn't put it past Brown to be negotiating just such a job for himself right now. The IMF could send him to Africa, of course. Plenty to occupy his moral compass there, sorting out political corruption just like he did back... oh, wait. No, he didn't. Seriously, though, they wouldn't hire the idiot, would they? Are they *that* economically la-la in DC? Oh.