Brown pledges a decade of prosperity

tomstickland

kabayiri wrote: »

Is a pledge like a promise with a guarantee?

Gordon Brown promised a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Some people took him to court and found out that a manifesto pledge had no meaning at all.

Graham_Devon

Spartacus_Mills wrote: »

Reckon the press corps slept through it.

Maybe he pulled out of his pledge to make the speech!

Can turn round later now after the press all showing what he will say, and say "ahhh, but I never said it".

Wouldn't surprise me!

baileysbattlebus

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Maybe he pulled out of his pledge to make the speech!

Can turn round later now after the press all showing what he will say, and say "ahhh, but I never said it".

Wouldn't surprise me!

He did make a speech

Transcript here

http://www.labourlist.org/gordon-browns-new-year-message

Graham_Devon

So not much different from what the papers said.

More of the same high speed rail stuff thats been going on for years. Whats actually been done here? Anyone know?

Rochdale_Pioneers

Spartacus_Mills wrote: »

This is just plainly not true as can be seen from the polls history I took from UKPollingreport.co.uk

Have you checked the weighting they give them? ARS produces a poll of which party people support, not who they would vote for. ComRes use a variety of sampling methods which creates large swings from one poll to the next. UKPR treats them with large pinches of salt.

Look at the mainstream pollsters and the gap is closing. Its a Labour lie spun by the media? A lot of Tories taking it seriously - their own polls show the same trend...