Should Brown stay or should Brown go
I can't say I have much opinion one way or the other on whether Brown should stay or go. This sort of thing from Geoff Hoon (on "Straight Talk") bothers me though:

I think the timing is completely and utterly wrong. I think that the public will expect their government to focus on the issues that are affecting people every day, ah, problems in the housing market, problems with energy, perhaps problems with their savings. I don't think they quite understand why even loyalists, if that's what they are, should be questioning the leadership of the prime minister at this time of all times.

That's a really sucky reason to discourage debate about his suitability to lead. It'd be sucky in any case, just to say "oh, it's a bad time", but this isn't going to be a two week problem. The finance world is in turmoil. The politicians are claiming that it's not an economic crisis yet, I don't know. However, this is *exactly* the sort of time that I want to be damn sure that the right person is running the country. Maybe that's Brown, maybe it isn't, I don't know. But don't brush it aside as being a bad time. Yes, if change were necessary, it'd be awkward, but the problems you're using as excuses not to debate it aren't short term ones.