The Bye Bye Gordon Countdown Thread

[MrMark]

6 days to go. Au revoir Monsieur Brown!

[Green Mango]

6 days to go. Au revoir Monsieur Brown!

Too early to tell, if Labour promise the Libs proportion representation,
they may get them into a coalition.

This is what they did in the 70's and the Liberals fell for it hook, line and sinker.

[MrMark]

Too early to tell, if Labour promise the Libs proportion representation,
they may get them into a coalition.

This is what they did in the 70's and the Liberals fell for it hook, line and sinker.

It won't be Gordon though - Nick's already stated he can't work with the guy. Have you ever noticed, Gordon always talks about "The Liberals" - he never uses the term "Liberal Democrats".

[Green Mango]

It won't be Gordon though - Nick's already stated he can't work with the guy. Have you ever noticed, Gordon always talks about "The Liberals" - he never uses the term "Liberal Democrats".

Well thats all to be decided. Nick has already demonstrated that he change his mind.

Gord might go of his own accord, but he seems to think he is indispenable so
I wouldn't count on him doing the descent thing and the LAbour party have no
mechanism to get rid of him.

[MrMark]

Well thats all to be decided. Nick has already demonstrated that he change his mind.

Gord might go of his own accord, but he seems to think he is indispenable so
I wouldn't count on him doing the descent thing and the LAbour party have no
mechanism to get rid of him.

Doesn't matter even if the Labour Party hang on to Gordon as leader (doubt this too - he's made too many enemies). It's who can command the support of x number of MPs in the House of Commons.

All academic anyway. As I've said before, it's a shoo-in for Dave and his chums.

[eliquant]

Its great to see the final days of Labour's power base in the U.K., its been a "spend to impress the electorate and therefore maintain power" type government that hasn't really worked and has put Britain into a dangerous financial predicament coupled with the banking crisis.

I wouldn't be opposed to a Liberal Democrat and Conservative coallition either but would prefer a pure Conservative government.

[Green Mango]

Its great to see the final days of Labour's power base in the U.K., its been a "spend to impress the electorate and therefore maintain power" type government that hasn't really worked and has put Britain into a dangerous financial predicament coupled with the banking crisis.

I wouldn't be opposed to a Liberal Democrat and Conservative coallition either but would prefer a pure Conservative government.

Don't think a Lib-Conservative pact will work, Lib-Lab would be the better pact.

[gingerjedi]

For the floaters, read this and ask yourself if you want to be blamed for flipping up your kids future by failing to stop the runaway gravy train NL has created.

Sure Cameron is just as clueless but I'd rather we were at least heading in the right direction than carry on down this rickety track.

[TimberWolf]

For the floaters, read this and ask yourself if you want to be blamed for flipping up your kids future by failing to stop the runaway gravy train NL has created.

Sure Cameron is just as clueless but I'd rather we were at least heading in the right direction than carry on down this rickety track.

Another perspective given in one of the comments:

Let's get some things straight first. I live in Greece and the country has not 'erupted'. The people clashing with the police are a very small minority controlled by small, radical parties and they act under these parties' orders. The media and especially foreign ones like to exaggerate this picture to show that there is a social explosion. Very far from the truth! I have been to a lot of countries and I watch foreign channels. Greece is much safer than most European countries. Anyway, the vast majority of the Greeks accept the measures, although we are not happy with them, because we know that this is the only way out of the crisis...

[HairyArsedBloke]

For the floaters, read this and ask yourself if you want to be blamed for flipping up your kids future by failing to stop the runaway gravy train NL has created.

Sure Cameron is just as clueless but I'd rather we were at least heading in the right direction than carry on down this rickety track.

Economists regard the bloated civil service with its jobs for life and generous pensions as a cancer consuming the country’s resources. The older generation, the experts grimly concur, turned the state into a giant cash machine to be plundered at will.

This could be said of the UK and many countries in the world. It is more serious where the left have had any influence, but it applies to all. For too many years politicians have bought votes with money stolen from children yet to be conceived. It was inevitable that it was going to fail in the end and that end has arrived.