If there was a GE tomorrow, who would you vote for??

mitchaa

Conservatives

DC should be making it clear what the conservatives are going to do/change but i guess this wont happen until much closer to the time.

What is the date for the next GE? 2010??

dannyboycey

Labour

mitchaa wrote: »

What is the date for the next GE? 2010??

I think GB's days are numbered..... and as a Labour voter, I can't wait! Half of his backbenchers can't stand the sight of him. If he makes it another 6 months I'll be surprised. The house crash will be the final nail in his coffin - unless he has any more monumental !!!!-ups up his sleeve that he has yet to reveal.

snoopy78

Labour

dannyboycey wrote: »

I think GB's days are numbered..... and as a Labour voter, I can't wait! Half of his backbenchers can't stand the sight of him. If he makes it another 6 months I'll be surprised. The house crash will be the final nail in his coffin - unless he has any more monumental !!!!-ups up his sleeve that he has yet to reveal.

A bet most Labour MPs will be laughing there heads off, leave the Tories with a failing economy and falling house prices, then there is a potential global recession on its way, not to mention inflation which is fastly becoming out of control.

If I was a Labour MP I'd just step down for four years and laugh my head off at the clowns the represent the Tories bundle there way through.

mitchaa

Conservatives

Would things be different if TB was still in charge, not so sure???

Why is public opinion of GB so bad, even within his own party? Was he onto a loser coming off the back end of Blairs reign?

I take it a GE can be called at anytime by the party in power, and if not called there is a mandatory election deadline? When is this? 2010?

Mitchaa

LillyJ

Lib Dems

Saw GB on the tele when I was getting ready for work this morning, what an annoying little man with no idea how to run a country.

jamescredmond

Lib Dems

mitchaa wrote: »

Would things be different if TB was still in charge, not so sure???

Why is public opinion of GB so bad, even within his own party? Was he onto a loser coming off the back end of Blairs reign?

I take it a GE can be called at anytime by the party in power, and if not called there is a mandatory election deadline? When is this? 2010?

Mitchaa

2010 it is. max. term is 5 yrs (actually 5 yrs 6 months constitutionally under emergency conditions, excluding war).

for any gov. to go the full term is usually a sign of weakness on their part.

(think major - '97 or callaghan - '79).

as for GB's lack of popularity, there are a no. of answers:

1. inextricably linked to 10 yrs of new lab. project, which most people judge to have failed.

2.failure to 'mend the rooof while the sun shined', economically (as chancellor),

3. lack of showmanship/personal warmth.

4. notoriously difficult to deal with, from a b/bencher's perspective.

5. shop-soiled. no party looks shiny after 10yrs in power. (TB knew this and walked away at just the right time).

6. he allowed the spin-doctors to portray him as the 'iron chancellor', an image difficult to live up to as the economy slows, even if the cause can be identified as coming from across the pond.

I. personally, would ban anyone from becoming PM who stated a wish to be PM.
(I'm paraphrasing here but can't remember who from).

Generali

Conservatives

The crazy thing with Callaghan is he probably would have won if he'd gone to the country in 1978.

Labour would then also have got the blame for the early 80s recession as they were introducing monetarist policies - Howe as Thatcher's chancellor was just following from where Labour had left off. Callaghan not Thatcher would be seen as the butcher of British industry (which is more fitting really as it was Labour's disastrous trade union laws and nationalisations that destroyed it).

jamescredmond

Lib Dems

correct insofar as a probable lab. victory in '78. all the polls indicated this at the time.

the worst outcome would have been a hung parliament.

what economic policies lab would have pursued is a tough call, regardless of what their manifesto said at the time or what the veterans would say now.

one thing that can be said for certain is that the leadership were aware that TU power had to be curbed and were making plans in this direction.
given the TU's grip on lab, any attempt to dilute their power most likely would have led to disputes longer and deeper than any winter of discontent, followed by a collapse of gov. and an early GE.

thatcher, meanwhile, would have been viewed as a female novelty failure and replaced.

things would have been so much different if callaghan hadn't dithered.

I wonder if GB can identify with that.........

TheBaldwins

Conservatives

There's actually a petition on the Prime Ministers website which is petitioning for a general election:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PMElections/

jamtart6

Lib Dems

i feel sorry for gordon brown, i think hes just having to pick up the pieces of tony blairs mess!

i would vote liberal but i just feel like it would be a waste of a vote, as not enough other people vote them to have a chance!

I therefore dont know who i'd vote, I really dont like conservatives!!! probably liberals then, they are fab on our local council!