crackerjack
Well-known member
Oh, exactly. That's why there was all this going-the-extra-mileage. If he'd stuck around waitiing for the Lab-Lib-Nat coaliton to collapse there's a very good chance he wouldn't have been in the ring for round two.
UK GENERAL ELECTION THURSDAY MAY 6th 2010
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Oh, exactly. That's why there was all this going-the-extra-mileage. If he'd stuck around waitiing for the Lab-Lib-Nat coaliton to collapse there's a very good chance he wouldn't have been in the ring for round two.
Leo
Well-known member
i remember the feeling, when bush was elected. twice.
It's horrible, but...
The other option wasn't really going to work, and Labour would have been nuts to go for it under the circumstances.
The Lib Dems could have left the Tories to a precarious minority government but would that really have been preferable to having at least some direct influence and people in government positions? (On principle I think it might have been actually.)
The other option wasn't really going to work, and Labour would have been nuts to go for it under the circumstances.
The Lib Dems could have left the Tories to a precarious minority government but would that really have been preferable to having at least some direct influence and people in government positions? (On principle I think it might have been actually.)
IdleRich
IdleRich
Well, the amount of influence they will have will not be large and at the next election they will be wiped out. I know loads of people who voted for the LDs precisely to stop Cameron and to see their vote go to him will constitute a massive betrayal. Seems like short-sighted short-termism to me.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
The grauniad for starters.
craner
Beast of Burden
Poetic justice will come when blue and yellow party activists start going at their leaders like packs of piranhas -- while Labour can sit back and sort themselves out in leisure. Rumours of an existential crisis (and bankruptcy) have been wildfly overstated. Didn't Sarah look lovely in dusk blue?
crackerjack
Well-known member
Wot Craner said (except it should've been 'at leisure', not 'in').
scottdisco
rip this joint please
i am surprised that a party who have joined up w the Tories across eighteen councils - even where Lab has been the biggest party - in order to take over, and then merrily push through the Tory agenda, w out any ameliorating influence to soften Tory blows, would join them nationally, especially when the Tories offered them the best deal. i mean, you never saw it coming a mile off or anything, so i can quite understand any hypothetical liberal voter upset.
we'll be hearing that a quintessentially metropolitan, middle-class-in-the-pejorative-sense publication comprised of such luminaries as anarcho-Tory loon Simon Jenkins and Blairite shill Martin Kettle endorsed them at the election next.
(incidentally i note Cable's recent Keynesianism - which of course frankly he'd have to have been a tool not to - hasn't been enough to make him sign up to the Beveridge Group rolls. Clegg isn't a member, naturally.)
we'll be hearing that a quintessentially metropolitan, middle-class-in-the-pejorative-sense publication comprised of such luminaries as anarcho-Tory loon Simon Jenkins and Blairite shill Martin Kettle endorsed them at the election next.
(incidentally i note Cable's recent Keynesianism - which of course frankly he'd have to have been a tool not to - hasn't been enough to make him sign up to the Beveridge Group rolls. Clegg isn't a member, naturally.)
crackerjack
Well-known member
Ha ha
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Hmm, depressing. But an electorate gets what it deserves.
Though I'm still somewhat convinced that with a significantly higher turnout than 65 per cent, the Tories could never win.
Though I'm still somewhat convinced that with a significantly higher turnout than 65 per cent, the Tories could never win.
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matt b
Indexing all opinion
Going to Eton "not a handicap" shocker
"The success of David Cameron in becoming Conservative leader and now prime minister would suggest [fears that having been to Eton was a handicap] were premature.
In fact, when Mr Cameron unveiled his first front-bench team, it included 13 people from his old school.
[...]present-day pupils, he says, are well aware of this.
"There's a renewed confidence that there is no reason that having been here, we should suffer thereby.
"We can do what we want to do in life. Etonians are back on the scene." "
Thank God the rich are back in their proper place, eh?
They were downtrodden throughout the prime ministership of the privately educated Blair- hoodies ran parliament.
Back to the natural order of things
"The success of David Cameron in becoming Conservative leader and now prime minister would suggest [fears that having been to Eton was a handicap] were premature.
In fact, when Mr Cameron unveiled his first front-bench team, it included 13 people from his old school.
[...]present-day pupils, he says, are well aware of this.
"There's a renewed confidence that there is no reason that having been here, we should suffer thereby.
"We can do what we want to do in life. Etonians are back on the scene." "
Thank God the rich are back in their proper place, eh?
They were downtrodden throughout the prime ministership of the privately educated Blair- hoodies ran parliament.
Back to the natural order of things
crackerjack
Well-known member
Is that a direct quote from Cam? Jesus Christ.
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
Given that some people were denied their constitutional right to vote, why hasn't the entire election been declared void? Genuine question.
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