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03/05/2008, 7:57 Gluestick Joined on 22/03/2006 UK and Nord Pas de Calais Posts 2,342 Sic Transit Gloria Mundi! Well, NuLab seem to have taken a rather significant drubbing! And Red Ken's out of a job - once again - however, will Boris the Buffoon make a better job of it, or not? OK a typical voter Knee Jerk well before a General Election, doesn't necessarily presage a sweeping victory for Call Me Dave in two years: however, I do believe the country told Godron precisely what they now think of him and his clumsy endeavours as PM. Bury, Lancs was the most telling. Still, with Godron's apparent preoccupation with overseas matters, perhaps it's high time he swanned off to the UN or Oxfam!   "Yes, but that apart, Mrs Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?" Gluestick    Report

03/05/2008, 8:18 Gastines Joined on 23/08/2004 Les Gastines.St.Pere 5mins St.Malo Posts 771 Re: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi! On their tombstone should be their oft quoted saying" Lessons will be learnt". As they make so many obvious blunders lacking any common sense, they don't learn very quickly. I wonder who the Forum members think would make good politicians.if that is possible. Regards.    Report

03/05/2008, 8:21 Bugbear Joined on 15/11/2006 Vienne (86) Posts 3,517 Re: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi! This was, for  me, summed up yesterday with the classic comment from Harriet Harman when she said " We must start listening to the people" pas de m*rde sherlock, the've had eleven years to listen. The 10p tax rate and the, as yet not realised by many, road tax hike, were two major factors, coupled with fuel prices and mortgage problems.  I've never understood this praise of Brown as being a great chancellor. His success was done by virtually bankrupting the country and you don't have to be very clever to do that. For me, and before the fun starts, I don't have an allegience to any particular party, experience of life has shown that all parties start well and then go of as time progresses. They start to believe their own 'press' and in the end power always corrupts. A never-ending cycle...........................perhaps it's time for a coillition. Gary.   "Life is Short - Forgive Quickly - Love Truly - Laugh Uncontrollably"    Report

03/05/2008, 9:04 Clarkkent Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 514 Re: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi! The UK government could help itself by letting go of the coat tails of the odious Bush administration and burying the fiction of a "special relationship" once and for all.      Report

03/05/2008, 9:14 Tony F Dordogne Joined on 10/04/2005 Small village in the Dordogne, near St Cyprien Posts 1,409 Re: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi! And becoming a Republic with a properly elected Upper Chamber, rather than having 'People's Lords', seems like a contradiction in terms to me. And if Labour honoured their committment to proportional voting as they promised they would, the Uk could - not would, but could - be a better place politically. And that's without any discussion of the role of the National Assemblies in Scotland and Wales and why those two countries need MPs in Westminister and in their local assemblies whilst England just has the one lot - come to think of it, who would want two MPs, especially if they're NuLab or NuCon. Tony F Dordogne (24) Huguenot Trails    Report

03/05/2008, 13:55 Gastines Joined on 23/08/2004 Les Gastines.St.Pere 5mins St.Malo Posts 771 Re: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi! I hope your not suggesting a Revolution Tony.F.D.? With ref to Lords,Royalty and the Church, have any of these landowners donated any of their rolling acres for Low Cost or Social Housing,or even better Travellers Sites? I see Proper Charlie is showing several heads of state around his model village of Poundbury.,the land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall plus the Scilly isles ,swathes of Dorset etc etc. Has anyone seen this soulless place? I wonder if any other developer would have got planning for it? I note no entries for M.P.'s yet. Regards.    Report

03/05/2008, 16:21 Tony F Dordogne Joined on 10/04/2005 Small village in the Dordogne, near St Cyprien Posts 1,409 Re: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi! Gastines, suggesting a social revolution and asking the politicians to actually do what they promised to do can't be wrong surely?  And perhaps, some sort of revolution, people on the streets as they were with the poll tax demonstrations (tho not the violent riots) may actually do some good.  Tho interestingly, when the 1980s anti-poll tax demos took place Labour supported them - when the anti-Iraq war demos took place, NuLab ignored them and said they were not relevant!!! Hypocitical as ever. Tony F Dordogne (24) Huguenot Trails    Report

03/05/2008, 17:46 trees 2 Joined on 28/04/2008 Posts 65 Re: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi! I'm really glad to see NuLab get a drubbing, since I hate them with a vengeance for what they've done to the country over the last 11 years. HOWEVER, I also LOATHE the Cons after Thatcher, and would NEVER ever trust THEM again. My vote, when it comes, will go to neither.    Report

03/05/2008, 18:01 Trying Joined on 30/04/2008 Posts 15 Re: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi!  trees 2 wrote: I'm really glad to see NuLab get a drubbing, since I hate them with a vengeance for what they've done to the country over the last 11 years. HOWEVER, I also LOATHE the Cons after Thatcher, and would NEVER ever trust THEM again. My vote, when it comes, will go to neither. Sorry to read at your problems with the two in England. Will you try the Lib.next time round then. They all do the job as best they think,and that will-not please all the people all the time.    Report

03/05/2008, 18:24 Gastines Joined on 23/08/2004 Les Gastines.St.Pere 5mins St.Malo Posts 771 Re: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi! I have thought for the last few years that the War in Iraq has caused many of the UK's financial problems backed up by Afghanistan. In the era of the laser guided smart bomb did they have to destroy the infrastructure that has such an effect on all Iraqis, when the removal of a few family members might have been all that was required. Now it seems that the latest ballooning budget is for the Olympic Circus. I suppose if it's not coming out of the M.P's pocket an extra billion or ten means nothing. REf  future P.M, may I suggest Sir Alan Sugar.At least if the M.P's and the thousands in the non-jobs don't earn ,  he will fire them!! Regards.      Report

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