Gordon Brown took over the role of prime minister from Tony Blair today.

Meanwhile, Blair received a major diplomatic post:

‘The international diplomatic Quartet of the United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia announced Mr Blair’s appointment as its representative in the search for peace in the region.’

Another typical Bush administration appointment–putting a loyalist in charge of something he doesn’t know how to do. With Hamas violently in charge of the Gaza Strip and a war-monger in charge of the “search for peace” process, this is going to be one long search.

Seeing power pried from the hands of a mad zealot like Blair makes for quite a moment. But John Howson (pictured below via Getty images) probably summed it up best: “Good riddance.”

Or maybe Jonathan Freedland says it best:

‘I have written before that it is an indictment of our system of government that Tony Blair was able to remain in office despite Iraq.’