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Gordon Brown on the brink?

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Blears has resigned a day before the expected drubbing of Labour in tomorrow's European elections, his home secretary has stepped down in the wake of a porn scandal, his authority is battered, he is suffering huge opposition to his expected appointment of Balls to chancellor, and he is still enduring the fallout from youtube-gate. Will Brown be here in a month?
 
He's done, it's just a matter of when. A few more blows like that and there will be a vote of no confidence.
 
Which would fail given Labours overall majority, do you really think the Labour MPs want a general election now?
 
Tomorrow's results will be interesting (he said, looking out his ballot paper). I rather expect Labour to get a kicking.

Of course, I'm rooting for a Conservative government at Westminster. But not for the reasons most of you would think.....
 
I can lend you a similar avatar, Architect, or you can copy mine if you like....

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe said:
Remember this? The thread was started almost a year ago.

Rolfe.
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Things have undoubtably changed since then. His Cabinet is falling apart, Labour are set to recieve their worst ever election result, and Brown is the Prime Minister who has resided over one of the worst crisises British democracy has ever faced.

I like Johnson, and I think he can save the party 100 seats. That said, I wish he'd drop his attraction to PR.
 
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I'm seriously considering not voting tomorrow. If so that would be the first time in my life (I'm 46). My wife is an election official and is working tomorrow so I'll get an early indication of turnout - the current best guess is around 50%.
As for the original question, yes Brown is doomed, but to be fair it isn't all his doing. As always "events" have conspired against the PM of the day.
 
mummymonkey said:
I'm seriously considering not voting tomorrow. If so that would be the first time in my life (I'm 46). My wife is an election official and is working tomorrow so I'll get an early indication of turnout - the current best guess is around 50%.
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Stop the BNP from gaining in your absence etc.
 
Hell, I'd vote Monster Raving Looney Party if I thought it'd stop the BNP getting in.
 
BNP unlikely to be an issue if he is voting in Scotland which I think he probably is. Not because I think the Scots are any less racist, just the nature of politics gives more options for protest votes.
 
Anybody in the country actually have any idea what an MEP does yet? Do the MEP's themselves know?
 
Rolfe said:
Remember this? The thread was started almost a year ago.

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Which just goes to prove that no-one should listen to my predictions about anything political.

Having said that, the only people who can get rid of Gordie are the Labour backbenchers. Self interest says they won't do it as they could hardly imagine a worse time to have an election. I don't think the prospect of Broon standing down without a general election is realistic so my guess is we have a lame duck limping along to a terrible defeat in May 2010.
 
Jaggy Bunnet said:
BNP unlikely to be an issue if he is voting in Scotland which I think he probably is. Not because I think the Scots are any less racist, just the nature of politics gives more options for protest votes.
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Are the BNP fielding candidates in Scotland, just as a matter of interest?
 
The full choice:
British National Party - "Protecting British Jobs"
Christian party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship"
Conservative Party "Scottish Conservative & Unionist"
Jury Team "Democracy, Accountability, Transparency"
Liberal Democrats
No2EU:Yes to Democracy
Scottish Green Party
Scottish National Party "Protecting Scottish Jobs, working for recovery"
Scottish Socialist Party
Socialist Labour Party "Splitters!"
The Labour Party
United Kingdom Independence Party "UKIP"
Duncan Robertson "Independent"
 
mummymonkey said:
The full choice:
British National Party - "Protecting British Jobs"
Christian party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship"
Conservative Party "Scottish Conservative & Unionist"
Jury Team "Democracy, Accountability, Transparency"
Liberal Democrats
No2EU:Yes to Democracy
Scottish Green Party
Scottish National Party "Protecting Scottish Jobs, working for recovery"
Scottish Socialist Party
Socialist Labour Party "Splitters!"
The Labour Party
United Kingdom Independence Party "UKIP"
Duncan Robertson "Independent"
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No Stuart Restoration Party?
I am dissapointed.
 
You certainly have your pick of anti-EU candidates. I was amused to watch a PPB on a party named Libertas, which by all accounts appeared to be a one-man party featuring some bald bloke nattering on in the middle of an obscure park about the EU. It comes across as highly improvised, as if he found himself with a camera, a bunch of cash and a few dotty ideas, and suddenly decided to form a new political party. After all, everyone is doing it!

On top of that you have the exotically titled No2EU, the Christian Union Party and the Socialist Labour Party, the latter headed up by none other than Ricky Tomlinson!

You know you are in a democratic bind when the fourth-parties start arguing against one another rather than at the top three.

Walking down the road today, I saw UKIP's gigantic poster looming on the side of a building:

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Other people are asking it so I may as well: Why Winston? Was he well-known for loathing the EU? Did it even exist back then? If anything, didn't he put a huge effort into Europe from 1940-5? You may as well put Bagpuss on the poster.
 
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