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This man thinks he can be a Prime Minister

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  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    Does Labour have a great leader in their midst? I've not seen anyone remotely like that, they all look like identikit career politicians.

    I wonder if that's what people like about Farrage and Boris, at least they don't appear to be 'autocuties'.


    I think Chuka Umoonah would be a lot more popular than EM. Alan Johnston to.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Obviously hindsight. Though these same bankers were friends of No 11. Very incestuous.

    Nothing new then.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • Kennyboy66
    Kennyboy66 Posts: 939 Forumite
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    My comment was in the context that he was 67 when he became opposition leader. With all due respect to him personally he came from a different era. To the one the world was entering.

    Without a doubt, Foot was a politician for the 1930's / 1945.

    I think the difference which I didn't explain very well was that Foot was unelectable because of his policies.

    Miliband is unelectable because of his personality, Labours manifesto going into the next election will look like Tory lite.
    US housing: it's not a bubble - Moneyweek Dec 12, 2005
  • antrobus
    antrobus Posts: 17,386 Forumite
    TruckerT wrote: »
    Why?

    TruckerT

    Because they're in the business of lending money.
  • Kennyboy66
    Kennyboy66 Posts: 939 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Does Labour have a great leader in their midst? I've not seen anyone remotely like that, they all look like identikit career politicians.

    I wonder if that's what people like about Farrage and Boris, at least they don't appear to be 'autocuties'.

    A 'great leader' - No, however I would fancy David Miliband could beat Cameron.

    Labour's bigger worry is that its shadow cabinet looks either tainted (Ed Balls) or callow.
    US housing: it's not a bubble - Moneyweek Dec 12, 2005
  • antrobus
    antrobus Posts: 17,386 Forumite
    Kennyboy66 wrote: »
    A 'great leader' - No, however I would fancy David Miliband could beat Cameron.

    Given that there is a by-election scheduled for South Shields tomorrow, I fancy David Miliband is incapable of beating Cameron.

    Kennyboy66 wrote: »
    ...Labour's bigger worry is that its shadow cabinet looks either tainted (Ed Balls) or callow.

    Labour's bigger worry is that the Blair-Brown civil war wiped out a generation of would-be successors.
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    these same bankers were friends of No 11. Very incestuous.
    grizzly1911 wrote: »
    Nothing new then.

    And there is little evidence that anything has changed....

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    Conrad wrote: »
    I think Chuka Umoonah would be a lot more popular than EM. Alan Johnston to.

    Needs to distance himself from the current regime though. Clearly out of his depth as Shadow Business Secretary.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    grizzly1911 wrote: »
    Nothing new then.


    Certainly the wrong sort of lobbying went on.

    .
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    TruckerT wrote: »
    The 'issue' is that we have been brought down by the banks, and the politicians lack the balls to deal with it.

    The banks continue to call the shots, and feel no responsibility at all towards the people whose lives they control.

    TruckerT

    They are getting their own back after being a major contributor to the welfare state for over a decade in terms of tax paid.

    Something the left seem to have completely forgot about.
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