Cameron 'sorry' for being asleep at the wheel

Zagu

baileysbattlebus wrote: »

you missed the rest of the paragraph.

I didn't miss it, it's just not relevant.

Labour said that they were "committed to a referendum on the voting system for the House of Commons", and to find the best alternative they will setup a commission. The commission gave it's opinion, which wasn't black and white, and that's the last we heard about it.

stevetodd

the.ciscokid wrote: »

Seriously?

I wasn't joking

CLAPTON

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

Essentially that. He's just positioned his party as one that cheered the government on all the way and berated them for not having gone further (Cameron's speeches criticising "Brown the great Regulator", that famous Redwood proposal to fully deregulate the mortgage market).

Not sure that I understand the tactic. So now everytime he attaks Brown, can't he have it slapped back with "and you supported it" much as their late-hours conversion to anti-Iraq played out?



Sadly our electoral system doesn't allow you that opt-out as a choice of government. After the election we will have either a Labour government or a Tory government - with a chance of one or the other being propped up by the LibDems (who will demand PR as they have elsewhere - will Labour or the Tories concede?). Its rubbish but thats the way it is.

I'm curious.... the first quote from me is indeed a quote of mine on this thread but the second quote is not from me at all so please be more careful in quoting things and ascribing them to people .
thank you.

mewbie_2

Kenny4315 wrote: »

It's like the option of whether to have your gonads chopped off with

a chainsaw or
a carving knife

I'd go with carving knife. A more surgical tool than a chainsaw. Less likely to lose a leg or two. Manual rather than electric carving knife I think.

richardlionheart

prowla wrote: »

Remember "an end to boom and bust" - what a fool that man is!
Sadly, the last decade has seen Labour with a majority that has allowed them to do what they like, and the Tories wouldn't have been able to stop them anyway.

well He ended the Boom !

Rochdale_Pioneers

CLAPTON wrote: »

I'm curious.... the first quote from me is indeed a quote of mine on this thread but the second quote is not from me at all so please be more careful in quoting things and ascribing them to people .
thank you.

Apologies - I forgot to replace your name when I copy pasted the QUOTE brackets from the top. No offence intended.

epz_2

I would like to see an apology from the media. One of the reasons this recession is going to be so bad is the level of government debt and they were complicit in allowing it to get out of control.


For the best part of the last decade anyone who sudgested we were spending to much money was treated to the old " so you want to close schools and hospitals, dont you!" retort.

There is a pretty simple short sighted possiton
A) you can spend £100 today (borrowing what you dont have) eventually go broke and only be able to spend £30 tommorrow
or
you only spend £70 today and £70 tommorow, you keep the spending stable so no structual changes (sacking&hiring costs etc).

now it takes a lot more effort to say, sorry but theres a limit to what the govenrment can do but thats what they should have done.

In an age where major news stores get compressed to short sound bites and repeated constantly with no real in depth attempt to dig deeper it is little surprise we are getting short term PR men as politicians rather than folkes who would do whats right in the long term.


Too much short term thinking killed the banks and is just as fatal in politcs.

Rochdale_Pioneers

I want to see an apology from Carol Vorderman. She made withdrawing your equity to pay for a car/kitchen/holiday every working family's right. All achievable with just one phone call. To First Plus.

"We are no longer offering new loans". Why not.....?

MrFonzerelli

I would like to see an apology from Labour & Conservatives parties for sending troops to die in Iraq.