Gordon Brown on the brink?

Bagpuss? I though Emily was hiding in case the press asked whether that "shop" was being paid for with an MPs second home allowance.............
 
Architect said:
Are the BNP fielding candidates in Scotland, just as a matter of interest?
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Didn't you get their billet doux soliciting your vote? I can't tell you what it said though, because I dropped it in the bin with one hand while holding my nose with the other.

I helped my mother fill in her postal vote the other night. I did everything but the signature because she's partially sighted. I read all the complicated instructions about not tearing along the dotted line, and envelope A and envelope B and what to do if you have after all torn along the dotted line.

Me: OK, are you voting SNP?
Mother: Nah, I'm voting BNP. :sarcasm: [hurriedly] Of course I'm voting SNP!
Me: Just as well, I'll burn your ballot paper before I'll let you vote BNP....

They'll get some votes, a cockroach would get some votes, but hopefully nowhere near enough to be close to getting a seat.

Rolfe.
 
They don't canvas in our area. Either that or there's some big sign over our house saying "Ethnic Minority" and they stay clear. I'll ask Sinforiannis up the road when I next see them.....
 
Undesired Walrus said:
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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Remember the BNP's using a Spitfire in their anti immigrant campaign, and how it backfired on them?
 
Architect said:
They don't canvas in our area. Either that or there's some big sign over our house saying "Ethnic Minority" and they stay clear. I'll ask Sinforiannis up the road when I next see them.....
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They don't canvass here either that I'm aware of. I thought everybody got the postman-delivered leaflet? They're entitled to have two delivered FOC by the post, all they have to do is produce the literature and hand it over to the Post Office.

I seem to remember some sort of row at an earlier election where some postmen objected to having to deliver the things.

Hey, maybe that's what happened to yours? Maybe you have a postman with a conscience?

Now all I need to do is figure out what happened to my polling card. If I show up tomorrow and I'm not on the list I'm going to be a very very unhappy bunny.

Rolfe.
 
Then there was the time that BNP used a recording of Vera Lynn singing "There Will Always Be An England" in one of their ads, only to have Dame Vera go to court to force them to stop using it. Seems that the British Soldier's sweetheart of World War 2 did not like her recording being used by Neo Nazi's.
 
I can't imagine that the song would do much for their votes in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
 
Architect said:
I can't imagine that the song would do much for their votes in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
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Hey, it's the BNP what can you expect?
Although a group that admires Hitler trying to cash in memories of The Battle Of Britian is pretty sillly in and of itself.
 
mummymonkey said:
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.
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He's been Chancellor and Prime Minister for twelve years : he can hardly claim no responsibility for events. He said in a speech recently "History has brought us to a point ..." - no, Gordon, you and your like have brought us to this point! History is just a record of how you did it.

Given the events his performance has been pathetic. He'll probably try to hang on though, waving peerages to backbenchers who are otherwise facing more time with their families from next year. The party will have to grow a pair before if it's to defenestrate him. The next few days should tell us if it's capable. I'm not confident.

I hope they do, though. A new Labour leader would be much better television than watching ravens picking at a corpse for another year.
 
I was at the polling station at 7.05 and had to queue!! So either my area at least is going to have a high turnout or lots of people have a busy day ahead of them.

One of the good things about the EU ballot is that there are a lot of fringe parties so that will hopefully dilute any success the likes of the BNP may have by way of a "protest vote". (Yep "I want to protest the terrible state of our democracy so lets see who shall I vote for, oh yes the BNP, they certainly seem to despise our democracy...")

Anyone for a sweep-stake on the percentage of Labour's overall vote? (The prize will be a week of housecleaning from Brown's brother's cleaner, a day of gardening from Cameron's gardener and Salmond will do your week's grocery shop.)

I'm going to go for 16%.
 
Darat said:
I was at the polling station at 7.05 and had to queue!! So either my area at least is going to have a high turnout or lots of people have a busy day ahead of them.

One of the good things about the EU ballot is that there are a lot of fringe parties so that will hopefully dilute any success the likes of the BNP may have by way of a "protest vote". (Yep "I want to protest the terrible state of our democracy so lets see who shall I vote for, oh yes the BNP, they certainly seem to despise our democracy...")

Anyone for a sweep-stake on the percentage of Labour's overall vote? (The prize will be a week of housecleaning from Brown's brother's cleaner, a day of gardening from Cameron's gardener and Salmond will do your week's grocery shop.)

I'm going to go for 16%.
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I voted at 8am. Judging by the list when I got my form I was about the 8th person to do so at that station. Electoral officer appeared to be a bit flustered about 2 people turning up at the same time - and he had already got his expenses claim done (lying on desk in front of him) so I suspect turnout has been less than brisk!

Then I got a flat tyre :mad:

Anywhoo, Labour nationwide I reckon will get 19%
 
Jaggy Bunnet said:
I voted at 8am. Judging by the list when I got my form I was about the 8th person to do so at that station. Electoral officer appeared to be a bit flustered about 2 people turning up at the same time - and he had already got his expenses claim done (lying on desk in front of him) so I suspect turnout has been less than brisk!

Then I got a flat tyre :mad:

Anywhoo, Labour nationwide I reckon will get 19%
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At least that's transparency!
 
I can't forecast the Labour vote. I'm concerned that the BNP vote will be more than 50% of the Labour vote.

Unhappy camper.....
 
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