David Cameron is elected

[BUTTERBALL]

He's talked the talk, lets see if he can walk the walk. Never voted conservative in my life but believe in strong opposition, looks like the right man.

 

[simonsimon]

Back to the days of "bob's your uncle" for the Irish Brigand party.
The days of the ruling elite coming from Eton and the aristocrascy are over.

The last old etonian who was Prime Minister was Alec Douglas-Hume, and this was 43 years ago.

Society has changed so much since the sixties that the electorate will never again elect someone from such a narrow social class,even though the candidate has hoovered up white dust through his nasal passages in the past.
When the dust finally settles this result will ensure a true socialist victory at the next election for GORDON BROWN.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Not so sure about that, I think Brown got his sums very wrong and Cameron might have found a chink in his armour.

 

[London Irish]

Go get them dave

It's funny - a few years ago, a lot of Tory straregists said Douglas Hurd couldn't be elected leader of the Tory party because the electorate would never stand for having an Old Etonian as PM ever again - John Major's classless society and all that.

But now the Tories are so desperate they are pinning their hopes on this Tim Nice-but-Dim.

He's also much more right-wing than his PR campaign suggests. So Labour already have so many lines of attack on this guy.

Should be fun, Chicken Run

 

[simonsimon]

John Major's "classless society" was no more than campaign manager's spin.
Even he didnt believe it.

At he time he was more interested in shagging Edwina Currie. Perhaps this was his vision of a "classless shag".

 

[Chicken Run]

Re: Re: David Cameron is elected

It's funny - a few years ago, a lot of Tory straregists said Douglas Hurd couldn't be elected leader of the Tory party because the electorate would never stand for having an Old Etonian as PM ever again - John Major's classless society and all that.

But now the Tories are so desperate they are pinning their hopes on this Tim Nice-but-Dim.

He's also much more right-wing than his PR campaign suggests. So Labour already have so many lines of attack on this guy.

Should be fun, Chicken Run

Hahahahahahah still carrying that bag for Dr Turner

 

[Chicken Run]

I seem to remember you suggesting this guy would be the threat

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

The good thing is tho a hell of a lot of dirt is about to be thrown at either party.

Whoevers shit dont stink the most will probably get elected.

However everyone goes on about Tory Sleaze but come on those twats we have in at the moment are not exactly whiter than white.

As a floating voter, I have voted both Conservative AND Labour in the past, its going to be interesting.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I think Gordon Brown is surely in line for the role of Prime Minister. I am not sure I trust him. He sold off a lot of our gold cheaply and obviously his pension plundering.

Hopefully the conservatives will give them a good battle. I think David Cameron is the man for the job. After all Tony Blair appealed to the public as younger and dynamic.

 

[London Calling]

I think Gordon Brown is surely in line for the role of Prime Minister. I am not sure I trust him. He sold off a lot of our gold cheaply and obviously his pension plundering.

Hopefully the conservatives will give them a good battle. I think David Cameron is the man for the job. After all Tony Blair appealed to the public as younger and dynamic.

I am intrique by "what gold has he sold off"?

LC

 

[London Irish]

I seem to remember you suggesting this guy would be the threat

I think I said more of a threat than Davis.

Which is a bit like saying, pick Chris McPhee, he'll be more of a threat up front than the others

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I am intrique by "what gold has he sold off"?

LC

Brown sold off 300 tonnes at just $275 an ounce - close to a 20-year low.

Roughly a third of the proceeds were then invested in euros - which then proceeded to plummet.

The gold price did not do much for a time. Now it has enjoyed a stunning rally.

The result is a stonking loss on those Gordon Brown gold sales. In fact, the Chancellor's disastrous foray into international asset management now looks to have cost the British people some £2 billion.

 

[looney]

Funny how all the lefties are saying he wont win? Like thatcher wouldn't win the miners strike.


Inexperianced? What about Blair and 18 years in opposition.


Theres no chance of PR unless theres a hung parliament, and theres still a hell of a lot of people against it in labour so its chance a leftie wet dream.


I mean what sane or rational person wants any political party entrenched in power for 30 to 70 years?

I was 5 or 6 seats out at the last election result, I can at least veiw it rationally and I'd say labour are in big trouble, early days yet though.

Its not about changing policies but changing semantics and attitude mainly.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I suspect the usual from the Tories, lots of talk about modernisation and caring conservatism, taking the centre-right etc. But when Cameron starts to loose his core right wing vote he'll try and shore it up with trad tories ideals and loose his centre ground to Lab or Lib. Cameron's speeches are no different to William Hague, IDS or Micheal Howard.

Yesterday's party for yesterday's people.

P.S. How long before the first stories of his coke fuelled university days appear in the Sunday red-tops?

 

[looney]

I suspect the usual from the Tories, lots of talk about modernisation and caring conservatism, taking the centre-right etc. But when Cameron starts to loose his core right wing vote he'll try and shore it up with trad tories ideals and loose his centre ground to Lab or Lib. Cameron's speeches are no different to William Hague, IDS or Micheal Howard.

Yesterday's party for yesterday's people.

P.S. How long before the first stories of his coke fuelled university days appear in the Sunday red-tops?

I dont think there are many who dont know about Labours dirty tricks unit. Dont think it will harm him.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Cameron sounds and looks good. He'll certainly give Labour a run for thier money but make no mistake, he's a right-wing Tory. He's against increased investment in hospitals and schools and has voted against the government in the Commons on these issues. He wants to pull the Tory group of MEP's in the European Parliament out of their centre-right partnership coaliiton - positioning them dangerously near those who want to pull out of Europe altogether which would be a big mistake in my view. We still really don't know what he DOES believe in.

And of course it's far too early to say what will happen at next general election. But despite Labour's difficulties, the economy is still GROWING. The way some people have been carrying on you'd be forgiven in thinking we're all wading through uncollected rubbish crica the 1979 Winter of Discontent, in the middle of a huge receisison with millions out of work. Far from it. Brown has been a great Chancellor and as long as the economy doesn't fall into recession, he'll still be very hard to beat. But there's no doubt that with Cameron's victory, for the first time in years, British politics is interesting again.

 

[Chicken Run]

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