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What could Gordon Brown do to make himself popular?
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It's pretty clear Gordon Brown is going down at the next election the way things stand at present.
What laws could he pass to make himself more popular?
Personally I think anything positive related to car ownership would be a good start..
Starting with getting rid of private wheel clampers.
We even have wheel clampers at our local post office depot - they wait for people who have a card put in their door saying come collect your package at our depot and as soon as they go in they get clamped.
What laws could he pass to make himself more popular?
Personally I think anything positive related to car ownership would be a good start..
Starting with getting rid of private wheel clampers.
We even have wheel clampers at our local post office depot - they wait for people who have a card put in their door saying come collect your package at our depot and as soon as they go in they get clamped.
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"Well, his resignation and suicide might be a start..."
The former, perhaps not the later...
With unemployment growing and the job centres full of people (who look clueless because their not used to being there), I even wonder if there is any point in job seekers. Especially after MP's spending the taxed money they *used* to earn on swimming pools, 12 grand on gardening (applying to one mp).. the list goes on...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8109933.stm
There was a page showing a list of the mp's dodgy expenses but it got too big it has been replaced by a postcode search on the bbc. It is beyond belief what can be done for any MP to become popular
I'd definately vote Labour if Brown immolated himself (with fire) on the tele.
I bought my house for £95,000 long before the market hit the top. Ones down the street for £112,000 at the height of the market. The people we bought the house off paid £85,000 in 1998.
One went three doors down for £57,000 last week.
It's the same story up and down the country. Negative equity doesn't bother me, I can afford my mortgage comfortably, but those who can't afford their mortgage are fucked. And why can't they afford their mortgage? Because Gordon Brown cost them their jobs.
Don't worry, chronic undersupply in the long term will see most people better off than where they are now in this recession. Like you say, if you can afford the repayments...
It's fashionable but you really can't blame all the countries problems on one person.
Brown lacks personality and charisma, the Labour party is in a shambles. There's no chance of them winning the next GE, they should be preparing for 2014.
- Scrap our nuclear deterrent
He does that, he'd be come very popular indeed with millions of proper Labour voters- though admittedly not with Tory ones
Reduce or scrap the nuclear deterrant, though scrapping it will never happen.
Sort out the tax bands.
Think about spending some money for once instead of using PFI for everything, and then it costing them more in the long run.
Can. Will. Did.
He failed to understand that the economy was propped up by credit, even when his own advisers were telling him that.
He failed to understand that a credit-based economy is unsustainable, even when his own advisers were telling him that.
He failed to understand that an unwillingness to stand up to unregulated bankers was going to cost the country dearly, even when anyone with half a brain could see that it was going to end in disaster.
When the economy slowed down, rather than invest in infrastructure to maintain employment he decided to spend billions cutting the VAT rate by 1.5%. Even Adolf Hitler understood that people will be happy if you keep them in work, even if that means inventing jobs for them.
The guy has been a disaster ever since the New Labour Project started. Him and Blair were, to borrow Galloway's phrase, two cheeks of the same arse. Blair ruined the country with Brown at the helm and then, just when you think it can't get any worse, Brown takes over and manages to fuck everything up twice.
The man's an arse. The best thing he can do is stubbornly hang on in there. With a bit of luck, it'll be another 20 years before we see a Labour administration.
Im sure he wouldnt need a vote in parliament to be able to do that.
The populous by and large detest Brown and it wouldn't really matter if he did something earthshattering. The labour party would be better suited if they got someone very eloquent and marketable into PM position (think along the lines of Barack Obama).
the first one is a great idea, but scraping the nuclear deterrent is just fucking stupid, we may not need them now, but what about in 5 years, or 10 or 20?
though "fucking stupid" might be a bit harsh dontya think?
Everyone moans that nationalised rail would be shit but the train service in holland is nationalised, and it's nowhere near as comfortable as the train service here (they're more like buses) but they're a hell of a lot cheaper and run on time just the same.
Nuclear deterrant is a hugely complicated argument with lots of pros and cons (and over my head) and ultimately I think its a tricky situation either way.
Yes, German railways are privatised. Bet you didn't know that.
The problem with the railways is not the private operators, but the fact that the Government fails to regulate and provide for them properly. Nationalising the railways wouldn't make the lack of intelligent Government disappear.
No I didn't..?
this story for example
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/14/honeybee
£200 Million worth of crops at stake and all DEFRA gives is £500,000 a year for 5 years to look into the problem
1 Euro Fighter costs £69+ Million to buy
I'd rather see 1 plane order scrapped and a good £10 million a year for the next 5 years put into the above problem.
and at $15 million a unit you'd still have enough money left to buy one American F16 + loads of money still left over.
Exactly. The system is currently flawed in that the Government are still too involved and hold the purse strings. The promised 180 new carriages for the North has been cut down to about 100 in the last week, one of millions of wrong decisions.
National Express shouldn't be allowed to walk away from their contract without a massive financial penalty. There should be no 'cap and collar' agreements.