I think, Warren, that people would have had far more respect for the Son Of A Preacherman if he'd just come out and said something along the lines of "no PM in his right mind would an election when the polls are unfavourable - so I'm going to hang on a bit".
That would have been a marvellous example honesty and integrity that he's always waffling on about - instead of feeding people all this guff about his "long-term programme" and his "vision" and insulting their intelligence with all that bollocks.
Sorry Wazza, but all the election hype had NOTHING to do with being a cunning plan simply to flush out Tory policies, and EVERYTHING to do with Labour being ahead in the polls. And anyone with half a brain (whatever their political persuasion) knows that the polls the REAL reason behind his decision, and that if the Tories had had a bad week and Labour were ahead in the polls this weekend, you can bet that the UK would today have been gearing up for a November election.
I thought that Adam Boulton did a wonderful job of wiping the floor with Jaqui Smith on Sky News earlier today, by the way. She looked way out of her depth.
- Eric
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Wazzup! wroted..
"So his critics are saying "come on Mr Brown, we want you to hold an election which we all agree you have less chance of winning than one you hold at some date in the future. And you are a bad man for not wanting your party to get beaten." Breathtaking hypocrisy! Did Mrs Thatcher hold elections when she was doing badly in the polls? I think not."
I agree wazz, no sensible PM who had been in power for only 100 days would ever think of holding an election, exactly like thatcher, but then she was sensible (A destroyer of Industry) but had half a brain.
Gordon on the other hand was not so sensible, he let the polls and his minion advisers ie Ed Balls-up et al persuade him for a few days that he would win hands down come a general election. Lets be honest and a wee bit personal here, he's no Blair or Thatcher in the personality stakes and thats plain to see, we are just getting more spin and hype from him same as before, if you look carefully you can see the trail of blair slime and smell all over him-- the same bullshit eminating from him. He has the look of a man who does'nt want to go down in history as the shortest serving PM.
In the parlance of Donald Rumsfeld, "Do I want him running the country"?
No.
He's a scot, with a Scottish constituancy to run, whats he doing in whitehall?
"So his critics are saying "come on Mr Brown, we want you to hold an election which we all agree you have less chance of winning than one you hold at some date in the future. And you are a bad man for not wanting your party to get beaten." Breathtaking hypocrisy! Did Mrs Thatcher hold elections when she was doing badly in the polls? I think not."
I agree wazz, no sensible PM who had been in power for only 100 days would ever think of holding an election, exactly like thatcher, but then she was sensible (A destroyer of Industry) but had half a brain.
Gordon on the other hand was not so sensible, he let the polls and his minion advisers ie Ed Balls-up et al persuade him for a few days that he would win hands down come a general election. Lets be honest and a wee bit personal here, he's no Blair or Thatcher in the personality stakes and thats plain to see, we are just getting more spin and hype from him same as before, if you look carefully you can see the trail of blair slime and smell all over him-- the same bullshit eminating from him. He has the look of a man who does'nt want to go down in history as the shortest serving PM.
In the parlance of Donald Rumsfeld, "Do I want him running the country"?
No.
He's a scot, with a Scottish constituancy to run, whats he doing in whitehall?
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Lizard wrote:
> He's a scot, with a Scottish constituancy to run, whats he
> doing in whitehall?
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Because Scotland is in the United Kingdom.
> He's a scot, with a Scottish constituancy to run, whats he
> doing in whitehall?
>
>
Because Scotland is in the United Kingdom.
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He's a scot, with a Scottish constituancy , if Scotland votes for devoloution where does that leave him then.
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Oh, I see it's all clear now thanks.
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WZR- you have redeemed yourself in my eyes!
The constitutional truth is that position.
The constitutional truth is that position.