"Who's your dream UK political Chancellor?" poll discussion

MothballsWallet

How about a bucket of dog poo?

WelshGandalf

I voted Ken Clarke mainly on ideology, but don't forget that Gordon didn't do that bad a job of balancing the books given the restrictions.

Gordon balanced the books to start with as he stuck to Conservative spending plans (Ken Clarke's if my memory serves correctly). Then he went on a spending spree and every year from 2001-07 he spent more than he got in and said "yeah we'll be back to balancing the book in 2-3 years time".... that time never came and it's because of the constant overspend that we have such a huge budget deficit now.

24% votes for Gordon "spend now & hope for the best in the future" really does concern me...

redux

interesting

according to that, with Brown and Cable highest, and if people are voting across parties, maybe we should have a coalition of Labour and Liberal Democrats,

sharrison01

Am certainly not a Lib Dem voter but Cable for me all day long on that list. He's one of the very few properly qualified to be the chancellor as he has proven himself in the private sector and is generally a really great economist.

It really does annoy me that someone like Osbourne can essential become the most powerful and important accountant and economist in the country when his only experience is as a political researcher. The same applied with the awful Alistair Darling who got promoted from Transport Minister to Chancellor which to me means that he either had a very particular set of skills for both jobs or was very unqualified for one of them.

The PM only needs to be an exceptional speaker and be able to schmooze and influence people as this is what is needed for the country on an international basis for the benefit of the country. Every other ministerial position should be awarded to the person that is most qualified in that field - the education minister should be an ex-headteacher; health minister should be a doctor; chancellor should be an accountant/economist/financier etc etc. That's how it works in companies in the private sector and surely the government is essentially the largest and most important company in the country.

sharrison01

redux wrote: »

interesting

according to that, with Brown and Cable highest, and if people are voting across parties, maybe we should have a coalition of Labour and Liberal Democrats,

Our country has party politics not voting for people. This is why the Lib Dems have performed so poorly recently as everybody got sucked in by Clegg and Cable in the debates last year because they conducted themselves excellently but now realise that the Lib Dems are more than just two people and pretty much promised what they could to gain some power without any chance of backing it up. The top people are great, the party is not...

cdam

Wot...no choice for the only leader (and economist of some repute and long standing) of a governing majority in the UK. Hmmmm, remember UK does not mean England, it means UK.

Gordon_the_Moron

I'm amazed at how many votes I got :-)

Yours gratefully
Gordon

redux

Gordon_the_Moron wrote: »

I'm amazed at how many votes I got :-)

Yours gratefully
Gordon

I mistook you for someone else

I thought you were from that Jilted John song

meher

Ken Clarke and please, no more of his vinciness and his loser cohorts, thanks.

parker21up

I cant believe Brown has got so many votes. Do people not remember what a mess he made as PM and Chancellor