If you need urgent support, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. To contact our Crisis Messenger (open 24/7) text THEMIX to 85258.
Read the community guidelines before posting ✨
Options
your political hopes for 2008
Former Member
Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
what are you political hopes for 2008 then?
world peace doesn't count
myn:
hopefully there will be an end to carnage in iraq/afganistan.
that there will be more honesty and less political correctness and hype of insignificant stories from the media.
and that the government will have less say in the NHS... although heres hoping the new constitution works.
world peace doesn't count
myn:
hopefully there will be an end to carnage in iraq/afganistan.
that there will be more honesty and less political correctness and hype of insignificant stories from the media.
and that the government will have less say in the NHS... although heres hoping the new constitution works.
0
Comments
As for home politics, a wild one this, but here's hoping for the Lib Dems to gain some real ground and for Cameron to be exposed for what he is. Netiher Labour nor the Tories inspire me great hope or confidence.
Seems good to me too ... :yes:
In the UK, I want someone to sort out the education system and find a way of balancing life skills (like cooking) and academic subjects, because I think kids need to learn both.
For people to develop more trust (well, any trust would be a good start) in their governments in both America & UK, but first we need a reason for that trust & thats down to the politicians.
So basically the political change that I want for 2008 is a complete re-vamp of the political systems and politicians in the US & UK. Thats all!
- Gordon Brown's removal as PM. This man is a busted flush.
- More Liberal Democrat MPs involved in gay sex scandals.
- More Liberal Democrat MPs having a go at being interim leaders.
- A massive reduction in the size of government.
- A huge reduction in how much personal info the government keeps on us.
- The abolition of the ID cards scheme.
- The abolition of "green taxes" - we know they're a gimmick.
- The sale of Northern Rock and taxpayers money returned asap.
- The death of Father Tony Blair, as we must now call the sanctimonious little shit.
More soon...
I can am high, can't I?
Yes. Yes you are.
;( I was proposing to remove Braintree entirley, actually.
Actually, not true!
The end of the coercive state.
Hardly a hope, unless Dubya changes the Constitution or something.
Erm .. he can't stand again anyway. That IS the constitution. :rolleyes:
I'm not really hoping for anything with regards to politics, more pressing matters closer to home such as getting through University.
Its been since before Clinton - he was a one off, he brought virtually all his own people into the campaign and the whitehouse and didnt actually have very good links with the traditional Democratic Party.
To be quite blunt about it the Democrats haven't really had a proper leader since JFK.
A very scary fucking prospect indeed...
Guilliani? And he's probably the favourite (though he's fallen down recently)
Giuliani.
It's funny, up until 1964 the Bible bashing Southern States always voted for the Democrats because they blamed the Republican Lincoln on the downfall of the Confederacy. Would be interesting to know how and why that all changed. The Democrats aren't as liberal and free thinking as many think.
And to think we very nearly got McCain instead of Bush...how things would have been different, tragic really when you think about it.
Indeed. It's very easy to assume that all Democrats are big government liberals and all Republicans anti-welfare, pro-life, religious conservatives. The truth is that both parties are very decentralised and that there is very limited national uniformity... It's quite plausible that a Californian Republican will be far more liberal than a Democrat from Mississippi. Example - whatever you think of him, Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican is attempting to introduce a health care plan that will provide coverage for all California residents. And whilst many Southern Democrats will agree with Bush's line on abortion and gay marriage - in the North East and West Coast Republicans probably aren't so bothered, the state parties there being socially liberal...
The change from Democrats to Republicans in the South, in presidential elections at least (the Democrats are still big at local level in parts of the South) was because the Democrats base changed. Northern industrial cities and the East Coast became the Democrats stronghold, the Democrats could win without the South - so Johnson went ahead with the civil rights reforms that the South would hate and still managed to win an election in 1964.
Not really... I can't think of much that would be different Republican or democrat in charge - 9/11 would still have happened and it pretty much all flows from their. Perhaps a bit more velvet round the iron fist, but not much.