Is Labour Going to Get Back in............
Is Labour Going to Get Back in............
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regmolehusband

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4,097 posts

279 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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.........largely because Michael Howard has an annoying face?

pmanson

13,388 posts

275 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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.............and BLiar hasn't???

regmolehusband

Original Poster:

4,097 posts

279 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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Fair point!

regmolehusband

Original Poster:

4,097 posts

279 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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Maybe Bliar's face has just BECOME more annoying to more people (good) though I hated him from the first day I clapped eyes on him.

rude-boy

22,227 posts

255 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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Don't know. I hope not.

Read this site and you get the impression that he'll never get back in.

Talk to most of the people I know and you get the impression that he'll never get back in.

Listen to the comments made by many of my clients (normal everyday people from across the board) and the way they talk and you get the impression that he'll never get back in.

Read and listen to the press and you get the impression he'll be back, but with a vastly reduced majority - replay of 1992 - 1997 anyone?

As for the face I'm afraid you might be on to something...

>> Edited by rude-boy on Tuesday 11th January 20:02

Don

28,378 posts

306 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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God I hope not. But I fear its possible...

v8thunder

27,647 posts

280 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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I reckon (favourable to a surprise victory by Charlie-boy I suppose) Labour'll get back in with a reshuffled cabinet of nobodies that no-one likes, no-one likes Bliar anyway, they'll have such a small majority they won't be able to get any of their mad legislation through anyway, and somewhere either during next term or after it, people who've had enough will vote Tory, and other people just won't be bothered to vote at all.

I have a nasty feeling the number of Lib Dems on local councils will rise though, and they're the ones in charge of fing up the road system in favour of greed cameras, speed mountains and hypocrisy lanes

turbobloke

115,613 posts

282 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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regmolehusband said:
Is Labour Going to Get Back in...

Nope. Tiny Bliar knows as much. He's got himself a £3 million house to spend more time with his family in, he's already put Mandy in a cushy Brussels number to ensure His Toniness gets on board the EU gravy train when his health improves, because - IMHO - his beloved focus groups are telling him the elctorate are sick to the back teeth of the grinning jackanape and his coterie of incompetent spinners. Much has been made of Howard's "something of the night" mug, but it would be a million times better for Drac to be in No. 10 than Ole Slackjaw, Greedy Gordon. Nah, the pendulum has swung and noo labia are o-u-t.

nonegreen

7,803 posts

292 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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Well yeah but no but yeah but no but shut up right that tony blair hes been really good cos my benefits gone up loads an I gonna vote for im cos he never even nicked car or put his hand up my skirt shut up. And he looks like wot my dad might have looked like if he wasn't in nick for sommink he never knew anyfink about and wot he never done anyway and I got another social worker last week so thats 7 now, which is a start. New labour, get me a snake bite shut up.

Yes the w*nkers will get elected again.

JonRB

79,250 posts

294 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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My own feeling is that New Labour will not win the next election.

Unfortunately, all the other parties will lose the next election so we'll be looking at President Blair's smarmy slap-worthy grinning face for another term, I fear.

I would desperately like to be proved wrong, but I fear I won't be.

toppstuff

13,698 posts

269 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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Yes. Of course they will win again.

The opinion on this website, sadly, do not reflect the UK as a whole.

Blair will win again and soon after we'll have Brown muscling in to tax us all to eternity...

love machine

7,609 posts

257 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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I'm usually wrong on politics but I agree with Turbobloke, Tony is off for a life in Europe. Here is how it will go. Pre election, there will be a leadership struggle, personal assination (Howard's gay photos, affairs, etc) and they will be in a right mess. Everyone will think "Lib dems are a joke" the conservatives are a joke. Don't like New Labour. This is where Tony will stand up and admit he is an arse and T.W.A.T (The war on terror) is all wrong, his heart pumps piss and it's all his fault, everything. Which is where there will be a low key leadership shuffle and some random (Blair style) mundane muppet will take over. If Brown becomes the new Labour Leader, I will eat my own pants. It isn't going to happen. Labours new prodigy will come steaming out of the woodwork with a head full of ideas and some hitleresque style leadership which will hypnotise the public.

Watch it happen.

(and meanwhile Tony will be hammering towards the presidency of the E.U.)

So, ultimately, Tony will rule us, by the time we enter a Euro federal state, TB will have climbed to the top of the pyramid. Then we can unite with the USA and rid the world of evil and its oil for good old V8's

riveting

4,028 posts

259 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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Sadly, I suspect he will. I would imagine that there are a lot of people that are fed up with him, but who probably don't see the Conservatives as an alternative. So they won't vote.

gonzomo

1,023 posts

260 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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Yes, Labour will be returned to govern at the next election on the back of a growing number of self interested groups that know their continued existance depends on New Labour. The huge amounts of public cash spent on gerrymandering the electorate will pay off as the public sector, the NHS, educational types, and all the other largesse sucking groups realise that only under Labour do they have any chance of continuing to suck the public tit dry.

And as we all know, Turkeys don't vote for christmas. And there are an awful lot of Turkeys around these days.

I guess at least this way, there is a chance that Labour will still be in power when the national credit debt falls due - add in a weakening pound and a wobble in the house market, it could have the same terrible effect on them as almost 20 years in power had on the tories.......almost unelectable for a generation.

Failing that, off to the local crim hole boozer with a few hundred in notes, purchase one of the thousands of illegal weapons available on our streets and hunker down awaiting the revolution.

Oh happy days.

D-Angle

4,468 posts

264 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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It's hard to say, when you consider they have PO'd all of the following:

Motorists
Anyone who lives in the countryside
Several devout socialists
The self-employed
Anyone who needs a dentist
Anyone who needs a doctor
Anyone who uses public transport
The retired, and those who are about to
Those trying to buy their first home
Those who think we shouldn't have gone into Iraq
Anyone who doesn't like George W Bush
Parents who want a good school for their child
Anyone who values their personal privacy
Students
Not a few Labour MPs
Anyone who has had genuine reason to apply for benefits
Victims of crime
And, quite frankly, anyone who works for a wage and would like to keep at least some of it to spend for themselves!

Would it be so hard to start a non-partisan campaign to educate people about what a bunch of losers these guys are and get them to vote for someone, anyone else? 'The Labour Out Campaign' or somesuch? We could apply for government support...

My money is on a hung parliament(sounds like a bad porno...).

love machine

7,609 posts

257 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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What we need is a pistonheads dictatorship. I nominate myself as chairman.

The country would be sorted out within a few weeks.

D_Mike

5,301 posts

262 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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Don't confuse what you'd like to happen with what is likely to happen...

turbobloke

115,613 posts

282 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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"How about a shilling on the side, just to make it interesting"

BliarOut

72,863 posts

261 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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I hope not I'm going round putting posters up reminding people what Labour have done as soon as the election date is announced

Zod

35,295 posts

280 months

Tuesday 11th January 2005
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Labour will win. Even though lots of us are pissed off, the way they have got the electoral boundaries drawn over the last decade makes it just about impossible for the Tories to win without getting nearly 50% of the vote.