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 27/04/2008, 9:27
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Bugbear
 
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Aspirations..................................
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This is in no way meant to be a political comment, just a life and experience point.
You do have to wonder what Gordon Brown must be thinking when he sits quietly contemplating the last few months. His aspirations of becoming PM and the build-up to that, followed by the seemingly never ending attacks on anything he trys to do. In one of todays papers for example, is an article titled 'Gordon is a Moron'.
Try and put yourself in that situation, I know I would be seriously thinking 'what the B*****H*** have I done.
"Life is Short - Forgive Quickly - Love Truly - Laugh Uncontrollably"
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27/04/2008, 9:34
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Dick Smith
Joined on 23/08/2004
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BB - I'm a committed Labour supporter, and I find myself asking precisely the same question. What the BH has he done?
Like they say, it's a lot easier to lose a race than to win one.
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Dick Smith
Nowhere is there warmth to be found
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27/04/2008, 10:33
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Hoddy
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What bothers me is the slowness of the response to the problem over the abolition of the 10p rate of income tax. It was clear from the budget onwards that some of the poorest people would have to take a pay cut while others benefitted. I knew that thanks to the reporting of my local radio station at the time.
Why didn't Gordon Brown ? Like Dick I'm usually a Labour supporter, now I don't know where to go.
At least I don't have to vote for a mayor in London.
Hoddy
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27/04/2008, 11:24
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Benjamin
Joined on 21/08/2005
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 Dick Smith wrote: | BB - I'm a committed Labour supporter, and I find myself asking precisely the same question. What the BH has he done?
Like they say, it's a lot easier to lose a race than to win one.
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John Major didn't win the 1992 election, Neil Kinnock lost it.
Déjà vu?
Benjamin
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27/04/2008, 11:32
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Gluestick
Joined on 22/03/2006
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In a week where an Australian trader in London, apparently called Troy, has refused to take £125 million basic pay as too little (!!!) and Government having sought to tax the poor who were actually bothering to work, and could not see how this was technically and morally wrong, and in the ten plus years that NuLab sprang to power, I don't see how any lifelong Labour supporter could vote for the current gang of shambling incompetents!
Surely Socialism is about Wealth Redistribution, not favouring the rich over the poor? (Not that I agree with this necessarily, BTW).
The stark reality is that Godron has boasted for ten years about prudent financial management, whilst all the regulators have been asleep and now the wheels have come off and he can't blame the previous incumbent of Number 11!
He ought to, of course: every time each morning he looks at himself in the mirror to shave.
Tricky, really, when the music stops and there are no spare chairs.........................
Listening, for a wee while this morning to Call Me Dave being interviewed by Andrew Marr, until I was sickened by Dave's whittering nonsense and obvious lack of any cogent economic policies, this leaves only Vince Cable as the sole politician to have spoken with any clear vision, knowledge and authority on both taxation and the economy of recent.
And let's face it, who in their right mind could countenance voting for the mixed rag bag of lunatics which is the Lib Dems?
Well, I suppose it is said that a country receives the government it deserves..............................
"Yes, but that apart, Mrs Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?"
Gluestick
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27/04/2008, 12:14
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Russethouse
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After this weeks rumblings among the back bencher's I wonder how hard it would really be for Labour to start moving back to their core principals ? Perhaps there would be more support for such a move than people think - who knows? But I do think that the situation where there is only a cigarette paper between the parties, deprives the electorate of real choice......
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27/04/2008, 12:55
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Hoddy
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Gluestick, I agree with all you say until the last line where you say we get the government we deserve. I really don't think I get the government I deserve. I have worked all my life, paid all my taxes and never fiddled a penny. I always use my vote, even in the local elections.
What else am I supposed to do ?
Hoddy
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