Labour loses 'safe' seat
25 July 2008, 09:47 AM
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Labour loses 'safe' seat
25 July 2008, 09:52 AM
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Surely even Labour haven't got blinkers so big that they can't see this is pretty much the ultimate humiliation and that Brown is a utter liablity both to the party and more importantly to the country as a whole.
Can't wait to hear how they spin this one LOL!
Can't wait to hear how they spin this one LOL!
25 July 2008, 09:53 AM
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On Radio 4 this Morning Des Brown said is was abad result and that it is mainly due to the durrent economic strains that the party need to stay the course but increase efforts to makes things easier for people.
25 July 2008, 09:54 AM
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Surely even Labour haven't got blinkers so big that they can't see this is pretty much the ultimate humiliation
Considered the strongest seat for them in the UK
25 July 2008, 09:57 AM
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25 July 2008, 09:58 AM
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Protest vote.
Not many Scots actually want independance from the silver spoon that feeds them, so the SNP vote was a big kick up the rear-end for Labour.
It's the economy and I'm not sure how they are going to turn it around in time to save them.
Not many Scots actually want independance from the silver spoon that feeds them, so the SNP vote was a big kick up the rear-end for Labour.
It's the economy and I'm not sure how they are going to turn it around in time to save them.
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25 July 2008, 10:01 AM
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Will Scotland leave the UK in the not to distant future?
Suppose thats another matter.As to the thread,surely GB must be one of the most unpopular/unhelpful leader for any party for a long time?
Wonder if he will be booted out Et tu Brutus? Stylee (reckon Brutus might be Mr D in this case??)
Suppose thats another matter.As to the thread,surely GB must be one of the most unpopular/unhelpful leader for any party for a long time?
Wonder if he will be booted out Et tu Brutus? Stylee (reckon Brutus might be Mr D in this case??)
25 July 2008, 10:24 AM
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Mr Brown the public have spoken and you've run out of time. Do the decent thing for once in your life and call a general election.
25 July 2008, 11:01 AM
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25 July 2008, 04:31 PM
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Well I did expect them to hold the seat but with a greatly reduced majority, but this result is a very big kick up the usual for not only Flash but the whole incompetent and selfish bunch of them.
Isn't it amazing how they are so quick to blame their self generated economic failure on world circumstances beyond their control! As for Home affairs, what more is there to say?
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Isn't it amazing how they are so quick to blame their self generated economic failure on world circumstances beyond their control! As for Home affairs, what more is there to say?
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25 July 2008, 04:40 PM
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25 July 2008, 04:42 PM
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25 July 2008, 04:57 PM
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You'll be pleased to hear that Gordon Brown is "getting on with the job" Glasgow East by-election: Gordon Brown 'getting on with the job' after crushing Glasgow defeat - Telegraph
Shame he seems to think the job is to run the UK into the ground but there you go.....
Shame he seems to think the job is to run the UK into the ground but there you go.....
25 July 2008, 05:38 PM
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"We've got to listen and hear people's concerns and that's exactly what we are doing. People are worried every time they go to the petrol station for fuel and worry about the costs. These are concerns that are happening in every other country.
"My full focus is on taking people through these difficult times."
STOP IT GORDON,stop it stop it stop it stop it.Say it one more time and I think the whole electorate will go barmy with these statements.Same with the 'on with the job one'
For goodness sake someone help the bloke out,its getting just so embarrassing!
(sorry,that article wound me up!)
"My full focus is on taking people through these difficult times."
STOP IT GORDON,stop it stop it stop it stop it.Say it one more time and I think the whole electorate will go barmy with these statements.Same with the 'on with the job one'
For goodness sake someone help the bloke out,its getting just so embarrassing!
(sorry,that article wound me up!)
25 July 2008, 05:39 PM
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25 July 2008, 05:49 PM
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"We've got to listen and hear people's concerns and that's exactly what we are doing. People are worried every time they go to the petrol station for fuel and worry about the costs. These are concerns that are happening in every other country.
"My full focus is on taking people through these difficult times."
STOP IT GORDON,stop it stop it stop it stop it.Say it one more time and I think the whole electorate will go barmy with these statements.Same with the 'on with the job one'
For goodness sake someone help the bloke out,its getting just so embarrassing!
(sorry,that article wound me up!)
"My full focus is on taking people through these difficult times."
STOP IT GORDON,stop it stop it stop it stop it.Say it one more time and I think the whole electorate will go barmy with these statements.Same with the 'on with the job one'
For goodness sake someone help the bloke out,its getting just so embarrassing!
(sorry,that article wound me up!)
25 July 2008, 05:55 PM
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He is just so poor on his feet.He has no skills in that department and comes across as annoying
Blair was just so good(I begrudgingly concede).Even at a time when people were talking about did we do the right thing with Saddam and dodgy info upon which to base a war,his bit about 'I really believed in it etc etc'
He could pull rabbits from hats.Brown just really cannot do it and as nice as he allegedly is in real life,he really is not (IMO) a Prime Minister.He is a backroom boy
Blair was just so good(I begrudgingly concede).Even at a time when people were talking about did we do the right thing with Saddam and dodgy info upon which to base a war,his bit about 'I really believed in it etc etc'
He could pull rabbits from hats.Brown just really cannot do it and as nice as he allegedly is in real life,he really is not (IMO) a Prime Minister.He is a backroom boy
25 July 2008, 06:09 PM
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He is just so poor on his feet.He has no skills in that department and comes across as annoying
Blair was just so good(I begrudgingly concede).Even at a time when people were talking about did we do the right thing with Saddam and dodgy info upon which to base a war,his bit about 'I really believed in it etc etc'
He could pull rabbits from hats.Brown just really cannot do it and as nice as he allegedly is in real life,he really is not (IMO) a Prime Minister.He is a backroom boy
Blair was just so good(I begrudgingly concede).Even at a time when people were talking about did we do the right thing with Saddam and dodgy info upon which to base a war,his bit about 'I really believed in it etc etc'
He could pull rabbits from hats.Brown just really cannot do it and as nice as he allegedly is in real life,he really is not (IMO) a Prime Minister.He is a backroom boy
Totally agree, it's been said before, but Brown is singularly unsuited to role of PM
25 July 2008, 06:15 PM
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Blimey I have to defend someone I don't really like here, but what's the guys supposed to say? He could he be say; 'I resign' I suppose, but that isn't going to change anything! He could call an election and, which of course he will lose, but again that really isn't going to change anything either. We are where we are, we've got to go through a really painful couple of years, whoever is in charge will make zero difference.
demonstrate a bit of humility and honesty? stop pretending this is all down to global economic circumstances [which it isn't]? stop looking and sounding like a humourless, boorish and short-sighted android whose record is stuck? stop spouting meaningless statistics about GDP and the number of children he hasn't lifted out of poverty to any and every question he is asked? admit some mistakes? appear human? put the needs of the country first instead of the labour party? some hope ... he's not fit for the job of PM. he knows it, the labour party knows it and the electorate knows it.
however, despite hitting hit rock bottom he now intends to start drilling deeper. why? he's so inflexible, it's all he knows. not good enough. quite frankly, f**k him. because he's f***ing us.
25 July 2008, 06:36 PM
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demonstrate a bit of humility and honesty? stop pretending this is all down to global economic circumstances [which it isn't]? stop looking and sounding like a humourless, boorish and short-sighted android whose record is stuck? stop spouting meaningless statistics about GDP and the number of children he hasn't lifted out of poverty to any and every question he is asked? admit some mistakes? appear human? put the needs of the country first instead of the labour party? some hope ... he's not fit for the job of PM. he knows it, the labour party knows it and the electorate knows it.
however, despite hitting hit rock bottom he now intends to start drilling deeper. why? he's so inflexible, it's all he knows. not good enough. quite frankly, f**k him. because he's f***ing us.
demonstrate a bit of humility and honesty? stop pretending this is all down to global economic circumstances [which it isn't]? stop looking and sounding like a humourless, boorish and short-sighted android whose record is stuck? stop spouting meaningless statistics about GDP and the number of children he hasn't lifted out of poverty to any and every question he is asked? admit some mistakes? appear human? put the needs of the country first instead of the labour party? some hope ... he's not fit for the job of PM. he knows it, the labour party knows it and the electorate knows it.
however, despite hitting hit rock bottom he now intends to start drilling deeper. why? he's so inflexible, it's all he knows. not good enough. quite frankly, f**k him. because he's f***ing us.
25 July 2008, 10:16 PM
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Am I the only person who is sick to death of hearing, blah blah £50 million pound to China to help with pollution, Blah Blah £30 million to Palestine, Blah Blah £x million to help fight aids , Blah Blah, £x million to help Africa, Gorden there are people in this country who are really poor uneducated and no hopers
they need our money from our overtaxed population. Please sort out the U.K. not everybody else. ( ps you may guess I am fed up with fuel prices and the con of it all )
they need our money from our overtaxed population. Please sort out the U.K. not everybody else. ( ps you may guess I am fed up with fuel prices and the con of it all )
26 July 2008, 02:10 AM
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