For the first time since 1979, we have a real Labour Prime Minister. And for the first time in my adult life - I was 16 when Sunny Jim lost power - we have a Prime Minister who I could actually conceive of voting for.
Rejoice, Rejoice!
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Labour comes home at last
"I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty the Queen to form a government. This will be a new government with new priorities."
For the first time since 1979, we have a real Labour Prime Minister. And for the first time in my adult life - I was 16 when Sunny Jim lost power - we have a Prime Minister who I could actually conceive of voting for.
Rejoice, Rejoice!
For the first time since 1979, we have a real Labour Prime Minister. And for the first time in my adult life - I was 16 when Sunny Jim lost power - we have a Prime Minister who I could actually conceive of voting for.
Rejoice, Rejoice!
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Except you won't be given a chance for quite a while, eh Paul?
When were you a Lib Dem Paul?
Well Paul, you've got what you always wanted. The big beast is in number 10 - so now, hopefully, we can look forward to a constitutional makeover - and the English getting national recognition, a First Minister and our own parliament.
(Somehow I don't think so, do you? - especially as in the Indy, Brown is referring to "Nations and Regions" again)....
And apparently, the word is out that Ms Ussher from Burnley is tipped for a place at the top table? God, surely not - she asks the most banal questions imaginable at PMQs...... Surely, she isn't going to be included in the 'Cabinet of the Talents'?
I find your utterings strange, Paul.
1) Politics have changed tremendously since 1979 and the Labour Party along with them. You cannot say that Brown is anything like Callaghan. And anyway, you were a child in the Callaghan era. Many of us adults found him a bumptious little twit, far removed from the original Labour mould.
2) Gordon Brown has no mandate to govern. REJOICE, REJOICE? You approve of dicatorships do you? Because you LIKE the politician in question, democracy can go hang? I don't understand you.
Dear Paul
Do you really approve of the Pension-Snatcher ......
Yours ever
G Eagle
Does Maria not understand how the political process works in this country? Gordon Brown DOES have a mandate to govern. We elect MPs, not Prime ministers, and he is the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons, chosen by the MPs of that party (maybe not technically "elected" but nominated by, and therefore chosen by, the vast majority of them). Of the 10 previous Prime Ministers since the present Queen came to the throne, only 5 first took office following an election victory. Anyway, at the last General Election (or the last 2 or 3) we all knew Gordon Brown was Blair's most likely successor, so he's hardly been foisted on the country unexpectedly.
I fancy Specsavers put a little bit too much rose-tint on your last prescription, Paul.
This isn't the same country and a former Chancellor knows full well that, whatever he does socially, economically he cannot afford to upset the market devil.
Paul, I remember you saying 1/ that you opposed British membership of the Euro and 2/ Hague was mad to rule it out.
You are a political post-modern.
D.
Nothing postmodern about that. 1 was my own personal view. I did, still do, and always will oppose British membership of the euro. 2 was my assessment of Hague's position as a political analyst. The problem with the Tory Party during the whole 1997-2005 period was that it was perceived as very right wing and anti-Europe. I may have agreed with Hague's stance on the euro, but all it did in the eyes of wider electorate was harden that damaging perception.
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