rsand said:Can't beleive we have another term of George Bush's bitch
TBH I cant see Blair lasting the term, I think he's looking battle-weary already and thats before his back-benchers have a go over iraq. 2 years max is my estimation.
rsand said:Can't beleive we have another term of George Bush's bitch
johnhunt said:I may be old school, but to my mind all tory voters younger than say 60 should be shot
amazingtrade said:The way its going I can't see the blues ever getting into power again.
Matt F said:step forward Dr Fox -
amazingtrade said:I said I am a tory but I would not be voting for them becuase they are now pathetic. What I meant was I am traditionaly a tory.
I said I am a tory but I would not be voting for them becuase they are now pathetic. What I meant was I am traditionaly a tory.
T-bone Sanchez said:Hey Stuart, with all the growing talk of PR here in the motherland whats it like having a coalition in power for so many years??
leonard smalls said:Tories have gained my constituency (Ludlow) from LibDems, more's the pity.
At least it's one of the few.
Perhaps next election we may even see a fairer system, where percentage of votes actually counts rather than our first past the post "democtratic" dictatorship.
Labour managed 66odd seat majority with 39% of the vote! How's that fair?
And Maggie (see The Exploited's paen to the Milk Snatcher!) managed about 170 majority with 43%..
Why not? What do you see as the downside?T-bone Sanchez said:In a perfect world, PR would be great but I just cant see it working in practice.
Stuart said:Why not? What do you see as the downside?
Regards,
Stuart.
julian2002 said:and less spending on education, healthcare, pensions, etc.
i'm reminded of that simpsons episode where all the parents are screaming for better facilities but balk at the extra 5c tax necessary.
as i've said before i'd willingly pay more tax if the countries facilities got the money instead of fat arse politicos and their swiss bank accounts. this is one reason i voted l/d they at least were honest enough to say they'd have to increase taxes to improve things rather than labours 'stealth tax' policy and the tories 'virtual nhs / education' policys.
so... where's the uk's 'appology picture' site then? or is blair too much of a wrist warmer for bush to warrant one?
cheers
julian.
ditton said:Then we will learn what Brown will make of the top job ...
Hmmmm... Interesting point. I'm naturally inclined to vote one way in the lower house and another other way in the upper house. The intention with this is to provide some moderation to the government's (formed in the lower house) ability to push through whatever legislation they want. Prior to the last election, the Democrats held the balance of power in the upper house. This meant that If the Government put legislation throught the lower house, and the main opposition (Labour) didn't like it and voted against it, the government needed the votes of the Democrats to get their legislation passed. This allowed the Democrats to either block it, negotiate changes to it or fully support it.T-bone Sanchez said:Id be worried that the smaller parties will be handed an out of proportion power in parliment.
I shall resume later.