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Clown's adminstration tottering - election soon?

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  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • ad9898_3
    ad9898_3 Posts: 3,858 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »

    There is likely to be more truth in the article, than the completely made up stuff that Labour were planning to smear the Tories with.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Hey that doesn't work with me! I don't vote Labour icon12.gif I did note that you had thanked him for his informative link :D
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • ad9898_3
    ad9898_3 Posts: 3,858 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    Hey that doesn't work with me! I don't vote Labour icon12.gif I did note that you had thanked him for his informative link :D

    And why not, anything that kicks Labour in the balls is a good thing.:D
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    and why not, anything that kicks Labour in the balls is a good thing.:D
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    Have they got any ? The only people who so far have spoken up about what is going on are women. Earlier on, two younger women were sacked for speaking out against GB, and yesterday a very genuine older lady MP left because she was digusted with them all. What's wrong with all the men ? Too busy squirrelling away all the money they can lay hands on ?
  • ad9898_3
    ad9898_3 Posts: 3,858 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    Hey that doesn't work with me! I don't vote Labour icon12.gif I did note that you had thanked him for his informative link :D

    It's also the headline in the The Times Stevie, your paper of choice I believe.:D
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    ad9898 wrote: »
    And why not, anything that kicks Labour in the balls is a good thing.:D


    I'm not a labour voter, but I respect that they were voted in my a majority. Although I might feel differently if the majority vote them in yet again, after all this yuck.
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    edited 19 April 2009 at 11:05AM
    I agree that Labour is likely to get a good kicking at the next General Election, but what I can't see is how this is likely to come any earlier as a result of the recent abominations highlighted by this article. I think there are too many vested interests involved who will want to keep this government hanging in there by their fingertips, no matter how lame duck it is.

    Having just watched the paper review on Andrew Marr it pointed to a further article in today's Labour-leaning Observer. The article goes to show just how disenchanted even the government's supporters are with the current shenanigans:

    'The last 12 months have witnessed a growing moral sclerosis across Westminster and Whitehall bewildering to behold. A fish rots from the head down and in parliament the precipitous decline in ethics and probity begins with the speaker, Michael Martin. For years, the speaker and Mrs Martin have been plundering the public purse for an almost grotesque array of personal perks and foreign junkets. Only last week, we learnt of new beanos to the Gulf, in the wake of similar trips to Hawaii and the Bahamas.'

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/19/gordon-brown-damian-macbride-drape
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  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    Brown is not going to call an early election. He bottled his chance and must be kicking himself now. It looks like he will be a one term, unelected PM. Whatever one thinks about Tony Blair, he certainly was right about Brown.
  • Cannon_Fodder
    Cannon_Fodder Posts: 3,980 Forumite
    No chance of an early election, at the moment.

    17 points behind in the latest poll...

    http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/voting-intention
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