Comments on: Government ‘Chasing their Losses’

By: Matthew Huntbach

Matthew Huntbach — Sat, 16 May 2009 23:51:12 +0000

Call a general election and then what?

Why is everyone saying “call a general election” as if in the month or so between one being called and the election day everything will be sorted out and people will know what they want?

Most people will just say “a plague on both your houses” and won’t vote at all. The same PPCs that are already in place will stay in place. Minority parties may get a bigger share of the vote, but I doubt enough to win many seats – and we know from past experience (e.g. look at the UKIP and ex-UKIP MEPs) that, if they do, the main thing they do is show up that actually the selection procedures of the main parties do work to give some sort of sanity/decency check.

Calling a general election now won’t resolve a thing. Giving time for this thing to settle down and for some sort of decent response to it evolve – from where, who knows, but could it be us? – might.

By: james

james — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:13:49 +0000

I suspect there is a 20% chance the cabinet will gang up on Brown after the elections in June and that Alan Johnson will become Labour leader, and then have a general election shortly afterwards. So, what price an election in September?

By: Wayne Lawrence

Wayne Lawrence — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:05:45 +0000

I reflect upon the year 1973 in my days in Oz with some nostalgia, when the Governor General sacked the Labor PM and dissolved parliament.

Would Her Maj ever do something so sensible?

Charlotte – ‘final end of the Godforsaken Labour Party’ – just the thought of it brightened my day.

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 16 May 2009 06:39:06 +0000

Can you imagine what the feelings will be by next year? What I reckon could happen is that the whole lot of them will just decide that they are so far beyond redemption that they might as well punish us for having the gall to read about their corruption.

If they decide to go on a serial law making spree passing all sorts of legislation to repress us even more there isn’t much we could do about it. Plus they’ve got their pet Police to enforce it.

Look here, the Police are being allowed to award themselves massive bonuses. They are going to be willing to keep us under the cosh (literally) to protect that. http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2009/may/14/kent_police_bonuses.aspx

By: Anduril Sword of Ranger

Anduril Sword of Ranger — Sat, 16 May 2009 05:51:33 +0000

Cheney; Asscroft…

See you and raise you 300…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMi-yuOcH4

Ever,

Anduríl

By: Charlotte Gore

Charlotte Gore — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:19:04 +0000

Isn’t it worrying that there’s lots of people that seem genuinely worried that Brown might not give up power at all? It worries me.

By: BeingMeSince1964

BeingMeSince1964 — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:55:17 +0000

It is a feature of your average socialist mind that they are not wrong, ever, and so this is all someone else’s fault. Brown will battle on until the bitter end.

And then invoke ‘emergency powers’ due to ‘a national crisis’ and ‘postpone’ a General Election. Because he’s not wrong. And it’s all someone else’s fault.

By: asquith

asquith — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:40:27 +0000

“individual constituencies decide who should go back into parliament and who shouldn’t”

Aye- imagine a system in which MPs had to submit themselves to their constituency party, facing challengers, at every election rather than simply being waved through if they are incumbent.

http://tinyurl.com/ovtpzh etc.