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A future fair for all?

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  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    I have no faith in the alternative but I'm afraid I can't reward the incompetence shown by Labour with a "second chance".
  • worldtraveller
    worldtraveller Posts: 14,013 Forumite
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    tanith wrote: »
    Can you suggest an alternative that won't thrust us back into the days before labour came to power...:eek:

    You mean the flourishing, strong economy that they inherited from the Tories?

    When they came to power they essentially went along with successful Tory plans (which Brown had opposed) for a couple of years and then reverted to the typical socialist tax, borrow, massive public sector spend, that has now lead the UK into, yet another, Labour bust!
    There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    This is interesting. I think it might, but I wonder if there is a ....acceleration or further deviance on the impact of power on people with a more left wing bent. .

    You mean they quickly become like the people with a right wing bent icon7.gif
    '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
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    worldtraveller wrote: »
    You mean the flourishing, strong economy that they inherited from the Tories?

    !

    You mean the one forced on them by the debacle of Black Wednesday in 1992.
    '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
  • markharding557
    markharding557 Posts: 3,116 Forumite
    Kohoutek wrote: »
    Who do you think will get the vote of disaffected core Labour voters?

    Is it the LibDems or the fringe parties?
    more likely the fringe parties but libdems will pick some up too and all too many just will not vote at all.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    StevieJ wrote: »
    You mean they quickly become like the people with a right wing bent icon7.gif


    No, I don't, and I think you know that :)
  • foreversummer
    foreversummer Posts: 837 Forumite
    I'm sorry if I offend anyone but when I heard the new slogan "A future fair for all" I could only see "A future f..... for all".

    Fill in the blanks if you wish.

    Foreversummer
  • Optimist
    Optimist Posts: 4,557 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    Anagram of "A future fair for all" = Our fearful fat liar.
    "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

    Bertrand Russell. British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
  • dopester
    dopester Posts: 4,890 Forumite
    The Daily Mail reports Gordy has used the same slogan before, in 2003.

    Labour fairness = Labour incompetence imo.
    article-1252589-08622375000005DC-507_468x458.jpg

    Back to the future: Gordon Brown unveils his 2010 'A future fair for all' slogan to a party rally at Warwick University

    article-1252589-0070A54600000258-548_468x319.jpg

    Looks familiar: Mr Brown uses the same phrase at the Labour Conference in 2003

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1252584/Gordon-bully-claims-Mandelson-PM-accused-abusing-Downing-Street-staff.html
  • Kohoutek
    Kohoutek Posts: 2,861 Forumite
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    He should have updated to "a future bankrupt for all" to reflect the present.
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