Almost the time to dissolve Parliament?
Discussion
Jasandjules said:
Yertis said:
My understanding is that Gordon plans to use some arcane Emergency Powers to postpone the election until a time of his choosing (presumably indefinately).
From where do you get that understanding? 
ks that GB is guilty of.....The problem for Gordo, even if he wanted to stoop as low as delaying an election, is that he is in charge of a party of politicians.
Politicians who will certainly not sacrifice themselves, as they would do by way of election wipe-out, for anyone, let alone GB. There are plenty of ambitious Labourites who would use the delaying of an election to their own ends.
It would take the media all of 5 minutes to be whipping up a storm of Biblical proportions if such an act came to be.
His own side aren't loyal enough to go along with this and kamikaze themselves; and quite rightly, too.
The Queen would not have to become involved in this unlikely scenario in my opinion.
Politicians who will certainly not sacrifice themselves, as they would do by way of election wipe-out, for anyone, let alone GB. There are plenty of ambitious Labourites who would use the delaying of an election to their own ends.
It would take the media all of 5 minutes to be whipping up a storm of Biblical proportions if such an act came to be.
His own side aren't loyal enough to go along with this and kamikaze themselves; and quite rightly, too.
The Queen would not have to become involved in this unlikely scenario in my opinion.
Martial Arts Man said:
The problem for Gordo, even if he wanted to stoop as low as delaying an election, is that he is in charge of a party of politicians.
Politicians who will certainly not sacrifice themselves, as they would do by way of election wipe-out, for anyone, let alone GB. There are plenty of ambitious Labourites who would use the delaying of an election to their own ends.
It would take the media all of 5 minutes to be whipping up a storm of Biblical proportions if such an act came to be.
His own side aren't loyal enough to go along with this and kamikaze themselves; and quite rightly, too.
The Queen would not have to become involved in this unlikely scenario in my opinion.
To clarify, are you saying that the majority of Labour MPs would force Brown out? If that happened their would surely be a confidence vote engineered and bye bye, kamikaze indeed.Politicians who will certainly not sacrifice themselves, as they would do by way of election wipe-out, for anyone, let alone GB. There are plenty of ambitious Labourites who would use the delaying of an election to their own ends.
It would take the media all of 5 minutes to be whipping up a storm of Biblical proportions if such an act came to be.
His own side aren't loyal enough to go along with this and kamikaze themselves; and quite rightly, too.
The Queen would not have to become involved in this unlikely scenario in my opinion.
The dissolution of Parliament would have to come from the Queen, not an unlikely scenario in my view, especially if Brown decided as a last throw of the dice, to engineer some kind of 'National Emergency' around demonstrations by the hoi-polloi at the G20 summit....I wonder?
fuctifino said:
Martial Arts Man said:
The problem for Gordo, even if he wanted to stoop as low as delaying an election, is that he is in charge of a party of politicians.
Politicians who will certainly not sacrifice themselves, as they would do by way of election wipe-out, for anyone, let alone GB. There are plenty of ambitious Labourites who would use the delaying of an election to their own ends.
It would take the media all of 5 minutes to be whipping up a storm of Biblical proportions if such an act came to be.
His own side aren't loyal enough to go along with this and kamikaze themselves; and quite rightly, too.
The Queen would not have to become involved in this unlikely scenario in my opinion.
To clarify, are you saying that the majority of Labour MPs would force Brown out? If that happened their would surely be a confidence vote engineered and bye bye, kamikaze indeed.Politicians who will certainly not sacrifice themselves, as they would do by way of election wipe-out, for anyone, let alone GB. There are plenty of ambitious Labourites who would use the delaying of an election to their own ends.
It would take the media all of 5 minutes to be whipping up a storm of Biblical proportions if such an act came to be.
His own side aren't loyal enough to go along with this and kamikaze themselves; and quite rightly, too.
The Queen would not have to become involved in this unlikely scenario in my opinion.
Maybe not a majority, but enough, given the cries of "foul" would be heard far and wide; opposition parties, media, EU troublemakers....everyone. Standing with the PM would be suicidal.
The Queen's only involvement would be to dot the Is and cross the Ts I reckon.
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