Anyone shedding any tears?
I'm actually really sad for him.
In the weeks before he became PM, I actually took a real liking to him. I never really knew much about him until I saw a few videos of him at the time, including
one that Dan extolled on DDMS. Then, without warning, he did something which we saw as spineless and backstabbing, when he made a deal which his voters never agreed to. He seemed to have been disillusioned by the prospect of the power, like so many others, and he made moves that he will have to live with forever.
Yes, he will always be proud that he is a former PM, but I can't imagine it will be anything less than an empty, nagging sense of hollow pride. At the end of the day, I don't see any way he could feel content with what he did, and now he has to ride off into the sunset feeling that he failed to stand up for his convictions when the sparkle of power loomed before him.
So yes, I'm sad for him. So much potential, now a deflated dream and a lifetime of internal regret.