Reply to: general election

[Bob Dalek]

Dreamt up more stealth taxes than the previous 5 chancellors put together?

Come on! He's demonstrated heroic patience, waiting for Tone to let him have the ball.

[shaunbhoy]

Remind me, what has he done quite well?

Dreamt up more stealth taxes than the previous 5 chancellors put together?

[stackpole]

In the current crisis he is actually doing quite well.

Well it doesn't fool me.

He's doubled the size of Tolley's Guide with his strangulating and often pointless new regulations, but done nothing about the big problems. The shit inevitably hits the fan, so he does the only thing anyone can do, throw taxpayers' (our) money at it.

Remind me, what has he done quite well?

[Bob Dalek]

Gordon is starting to resemble Columbo more and more these days. Everyone loves Columbo, so.. Mark my words the BBC will have Columbo on 24-7 up until the next election, and all the best episodes too! Including the one with William Shatner guesting. Bloody left wing xxxx!

Best Columbo, in my opinion, was The Conspirators - banned for years, owing to the IRA connection... even though it was not pro-IRA.

Then again, Short Fuse was good.

So was Now You See Him...

...they were all pretty good, it seems.

[Bagpuss]

Gordon is starting to resemble Columbo more and more these days. Everyone loves Columbo, so.. Mark my words the BBC will have Columbo on 24-7 up until the next election, and all the best episodes too! Including the one with William Shatner guesting. Bloody left wing xxxx!

[Bob Dalek]

Unfortunately, I'm coming round to the idea that this may be true. The Tories have been very quiet of late...

Probably because now that Gordo's doing the ONLY thing he could do, apart from topping himself, they want things to go smoothly, to save their own dosh. Once things settle, prepare for weeks of fighting and bitchery.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Well, it's win-win for you isn't it?

If there is an election, you win £10.

If there isn't the country will be in such a state that you'll be unable to access funds to pay me...

He he I'll put a tenner in that pot on the mantlepiece now.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Unfortunately, I'm coming round to the idea that this may be true. The Tories have been very quiet of late...

Don't panic - by the time any election is called Brown/Labour will be unpopular enough to lose it. In polls at the weekend he had cut the Tory lead a bit, not destroyed it.

[BrilloPad]

The last conceivable day upon which the next General Election could take place is 3 June 2010...



up to 20 more months of Brown stuffing things up..

In the current crisis he is actually doing quite well.

Alas he seems good at getting out of situations he should not have got into in the first place.

[Moscow Mule]

I am familiar with the Act and I agree it is evil, but it won't be used to prevent an election on/before June 2010 - anyone fancy a wager?

Well, it's win-win for you isn't it?

If there is an election, you win £10.

If there isn't the country will be in such a state that you'll be unable to access funds to pay me...

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Was it?

I am familiar with the Act and I agree it is evil, but it won't be used to prevent an election on/before June 2010 - anyone fancy a wager?

[ratewhore]

He is going to get re-elected!!!
He is going to put all the countries woes down to the global credit crunch which is well beyond his control.
He is going to point at the Tories and their friends in the banking world and say the current crisis was caused by people like them.
He is going to tell us that this will not be over quickly.
He will then tell us how we are safe in his hands and that he is prudent, experienced and competent.
Once he thinks the plebs have swallowed it he will call a snap election for a mandate to steer us through these turbulent waters.
HE WILL WIN.

Unfortunately, I'm coming round to the idea that this may be true. The Tories have been very quiet of late...

[Bob Dalek]

I am right in thinking you are on the electoral register?

Yes. But I'm a Dalek, so f--k off with your clever "trap".

[Moscow Mule]

This was bollocks on all the previous occassions you posted it too.

Was it?

Meaning of “emergency”

(1) In this Part “emergency” means—

(a) an event or situation which threatens serious damage to human welfare in a place in the United Kingdom,

(b) an event or situation which threatens serious damage to the environment of a place in the United Kingdom, or

(c) war, or terrorism, which threatens serious damage to the security of the United Kingdom.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a) an event or situation threatens damage to human welfare only if it involves, causes or may cause—

(a) loss of human life,

(b) human illness or injury,

(c) homelessness,

(d) damage to property,

(e) disruption of a supply of money, food, water, energy or fuel,

(f) disruption of a system of communication,

(g) disruption of facilities for transport, or

(h) disruption of services relating to health.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) an event or situation threatens damage to the environment only if it involves, causes or may cause—

(a) contamination of land, water or air with biological, chemical or radio-active matter, or

(b) disruption or destruction of plant life or animal life.

(4) A Minister of the Crown, or, in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers, may by order—

(a) provide that a specified event or situation, or class of event or situation, is to be treated as falling, or as not falling, within any of paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (1);

(b) amend subsection (2) so as to provide that in so far as an event or situation involves or causes disruption of a specified supply, system, facility or service—

(i) it is to be treated as threatening damage to human welfare, or

(ii) it is no longer to be treated as threatening damage to human welfare.

(5) The event or situation mentioned in subsection (1) may occur or be inside or outside the United Kingdom.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

You'll be lucky. We've already had the LAST election we're going to have for many decades.

This was bollocks on all the previous occassions you posted it too.