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Gordon brown resigns as pm!

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  • Harry_Powell
    Harry_Powell Posts: 2,089 Forumite
    Just released:
    Gordon Brown 'stepping down as Labour leader'


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8672859.stm


    I told you he would resign, but no one would listen to me!! I told ya so!
    "I can hear you whisperin', children, so I know you're down there. I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience, children. I'm coming to find you now." - Harry Powell, Night of the Hunter, 1955.
  • chris_m
    chris_m Posts: 8,250 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Just released? You're nearly two hours late with it ;-)
  • kriss_boy
    kriss_boy Posts: 2,131 Forumite
    treliac wrote: »
    Errrr.... and that's why they got the most votes is it?

    Its simple logic.

    I'll let you think it over for a few minutes and Ill post the answer later.
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    kriss_boy wrote: »
    Its simple logic.

    I'll let you think it over for a few minutes and Ill post the answer later.

    Are you desperately trying to find an answer? Maybe it's that you fear public sector job cuts!
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    treliac wrote: »
    Errrr.... and that's why they got the most votes is it?
    about 20% of the votes is not a massive amount of votes though
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    about 20% of the votes is not a massive amount of votes though

    Where did you get that figure from? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7692548/General-Election-2010-Parties-Share-of-the-Vote.html
  • jonnyb1978
    jonnyb1978 Posts: 1,363 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Each of the three main parties are playing a political merrygoround.

    I actual thought that a hung parliament would kick the countries backside into gear and actual do something for the people instead of the parties on self interest.
    Hague blasts the lab-lib offer of changing the voting system without public opinion yet the torie have offered a referendum on the alternative vote...Hold on what about the public opinion on proportional representation.
    Neither one of them have the publics interest at heart but only interested in lining their own pockets and and working for the own interest.
    Its a so called democracy so make it fair.
    Personally my local MP has done well for my town and i like her and wanted her to stay. Though i do not agree with her main parties policies and much prefer another parties policies.
    Why can we not have two votes. One for constituency and one for overall PM that takes into account every vote in the whole country. Surely you can not get any fairer than that.
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    Why have the English always got to be so racist ? For gods sake - we face being ruled by a Tory govt when we have only ONE tory mp in the whole of Scotland !! Are we being racist and horrible ? No. We are outnumbered by the english ten to one - fifty million to five million. We have to stay because Westminster has the money !! We have oil and whisky - so stop saying we cost you money. No country on the planet with oil is poor. Except US.
    I talk to people from all over the world in forums - and the only people who are ever racist are the English. And then you all say we are !!!
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    treliac wrote: »
    Where did you get that figure from? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7692548/General-Election-2010-Parties-Share-of-the-Vote.html
    they got 36% ish of the votes cast.

    only 65% of the voters voted

    = 21% or 22% of voters.

    they got the most votes but it doesn't mean it was a big number of voters.
    sad but true...
  • preable
    preable Posts: 2,114 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud! Mortgage-free Glee!
    About time too hahaha
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