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Brown Considers Giving Lib Dems Power

Gordon Brown is seriously considering giving the Lib Dems some access to power in the next govt re-shuffle.

This just smacks of sheer desperation.  With the number of Labour MPs, there is just no need to go down this route.  Although there may not be many left with any credibility left after the expense scandals.

Would the Lib Dems want to be associated with a sinking ship either?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/n...-deal-in-reshaping-reshuffle.html
Holebender

The LibDems would be mad to be associated with such losers... but they are the LibDems.
Stevie

Quote:
Margaret Thatcher

Little history reminder :

On the steps of Number 10, she quoted from St Francis of Assisi:
"Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope."

The Tories have won 339 seats, Labour 269, the Liberals 11, Ulster parties 12 and Nationalists four.
Former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe, currently awaiting trial at the Old Bailey for conspiracy and incitement to murder, has lost his North Devon seat in a crushing defeat.
Reacting to Mrs. Thatcher's victory he said: "I am horrified. She makes [her predecessor] Ted Heath look like a moderate."

In Context
Friend and foe agree that Lady Thatcher was one of the dominant political figures of the century. Over the following 11 years, she changed the nature not only of her own party but of others too.

New Labour is one of those with a changed nature.  As if to prove he admires her terribly, dumble echoes her sentiments during the BBC’s Andrew Marr TV interview :

BROWN
Quote:
Where there is wrongdoing it will be exposed.  Where people need to be punished they will be punished.  Where repayment needs to be made it will be made.


Need one say any more, well yes… if the current polls continue the results could be :
The Tories have won 339 seats, the Liberals 269, Labour 11, Ulster parties 12 and Nationalists four.

Dumble is gone after the European elections (the morning after).
Aventinian

Holebender wrote:
The LibDems would be mad to be associated with such losers... but they are the LibDems.


The modern Lib Dems seem massively over-eager to side with Labour instead of the Tories. Ironic really considering their stance in the 80s was supposed to be that they were willing to work with either.

I like most Lib Dem voters; I find myself often agreeing with their views. The party just seems to be in utter disarray at the moment - the time when they could actually make a difference.
Holebender

Bravehand wrote:
Need one say any more, well yes… if the current polls continue the results could be :
The Tories have won 339 seats, the Liberals 269, Labour 11, Ulster parties 12 and Nationalists four.

Dumble is gone after the European elections (the morning after).


Have to disagree on two points: After the next Westminster election, nationalists will have somewhere close to 40 seats (SNP + PC). And nothing short of dynamite will dislodge Gogsy from No.10. A mere election defeat won't do it, it'll be written off as voter disaffection with all parties over the expenses scandal and Gogsy's yer man to sort it out. Ought to be a skoosh after saving the world financial system!
Stevie

Yeh, forgot to wipe the end bit off but it's an exaggeration to make a point anyway.

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