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Blair, top class liar.
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he's on tv spouting more shite about making the UK a better place to live.
who's betting he won't keep 99% of what he promises?
:rolleyes:
i'm all for being able to vote pm's out if they're not doing what they said they would... straight up, within 3 months if you haven't done anything groundbreaking then you're out.
it can't be hard.
who's betting he won't keep 99% of what he promises?
:rolleyes:
i'm all for being able to vote pm's out if they're not doing what they said they would... straight up, within 3 months if you haven't done anything groundbreaking then you're out.
it can't be hard.
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If you want something done on a large scale, as this expression suggests, then I have to ask if you want kneejerk reactions or something which offers real sustainable change.
If the latter then I am afraid that you need to take time to properly assess the problem and then forulate a realistic response. Sadly it is not possible to do this in opposition, as many parties have found over the years.
Also, should we really be looking for our politicians to make change for change sake?
free (proper) healthcare
decent policing with REAL consequences for breaking laws.
there's a start.
the utopia will follow soon after.
:rolleyes:
everything just seems halfarsed at the moment.
:rolleyes:
for all we know they could be sat on their arse doing fuck all everyday. human nature and all that.
I am.
If I am given funding for a new doctor today, I guarantee that it would take six months to fill any post I currently have available. For example.
Of course, I could employ a locum with all the additional costs that entails (even assuming that I can find one). And that doesn't even take into account the huge clinical governance risks associated with employing locum cover...
The plans I am making now aren't for next month, but for this time next year. In fact, we are actually looking at the NHS capacity for 2008/9 at the moment and taking steps now to ensure that there is sufficient.
Yes, because the sort of detail I have just given is just the sort of thing which general members of the public usually have available, isn't it.
Perhaps you should look at the amount of information I have posted about the NHS before making such a crass comment.
I have to say that most of the time in this forum the people posting are intelligent and articulate, whether I agree with them or not.
this particular forum is the better side of things, people here tend to know a little about little, the rest of the website however is like smashing yourself in the face with a spade.
Astonishingly patronising thing to say.
Maturity may be an issue at times, but you'd be surprised at the number of people posting of each of the forums here with higher academnic qualifications than I have.
Just because people don't want to get involved in deep discussions doesn't mean that they lack intelligence.
Because even though most people are unhappy with Blair and don't trust him one bit, they also admit that the alternative is even worse. This is really bad news for the Tories- Labour's lowest point since 1997, and people still believe it's preferable to Michael Howard.
So there will be indeed a Labour government next term, though hopefully a greatly reduced one, or even better a coalition with the Lib Dems.
couldnt agree more.
behave
Plus don't forget that the Tories also supported the war.
Generally speaking, most of these opinion polls are only based on a cross-section of 1000 people. Most of whom may not reperesent a 'wide' cross-section at all but just ones most willing to answer a poll.
However, I agree. To most people, Labour are still the lesser of 2 evils - and there doesn't seem to be any other party that appeals to the masses.
Free education - Whilst many people would agree that education should be free (higher) including myself to an extent, well... can the country really afford to pay for the huge amount of students going to uni and coming out with a degree, only to bum about, work in a factory or do something completely unrelated?
healthcare - The problem seems to be that nurses ain't gettin' paid enough (Ok, my stepdad works nights and seems to be ok with that)... I mean that's gotta be it because people don't seem to wanna be nurses very often. Either that or hospitals can't afford to employ them.
Policing and REAL consiquences - What is a real consequence? Should more money be going to researching the root of the problems? rather than arresting people and wasting taxes on prisons and policeforces?
Man... it's hard to make such aims and our country is a Utopia compared to the majority of the world...
But yeah, a politician should never promise anything unless they're gonna at least try and sort things out. But aye... the most anoying thing about Blair is that he seems to be trying to Americanise the Uk... that and he doesn't seem to listen to things we as a nation (the voters and tax payers) have to say about certain things.
18 years of tory greed and neglet had the infrastructure of this country in tatters ...vital services starved of cash and talent. a 1/4 million teenagers with no further education or work.
i could go on and on.
i will be voting labour.
why?
the changes i have seen in this country and in the people of this country ...is very very impressive.
of course there are failings. of course theres loads more that everyone wants wants and wants again.
there is no perfect government and never will be.
this is the most sucsessful one in my lifetime in so many ways.
i hate the fact that blair was dumb enough to go with the yanks on iraq ...i would love to see a change of leadership but not ...of party.
so ...i will vote for the labour party ...i would hate them to loose cos of tony ...he can be sorted out at a later date ...the country needs sorting out now ...and so much has improved ...is improving ...the alternatives are a joke.
This really does miss the point, IMHO.
The reason why the Conservatives are having such a hard time of it is because New Lasbour has stolen the middle-right from underneath them and, more crucially, has provided better results using the same mantra. People won't see the Conservatives are preferable until New Labour stop being successful on what counts.
It's the economy, stupid. Everything else is tangential- if the economy fails, New Labour will be straight out on their ear. But until then people don't have any incentive to switch service providers, because that's all politics is now- a question of service provider, rather than ideology.
Labour took power with such a huge majority because of the economy. Nothing else.
The Conservatives were in for eighteen years because nobody with any sense would let a Trade Unionist or a Socialist run the country. Because all they do is ruin it, because they are greedy, lazy, scum.
The Conservatives ruined the economy under Major, which is why they went. By the time Clarke rebuilt the economy, and gave Brown such a brilliant footing on which to work (so brilliant, in fact, that he copied it for three years), nobody cared.
Do you think anybody cared about the poor miners, who brought it on themselves anyway?