Pretty much as it says really....
I have been impressed with his speech. Probably full of crap, but as a speech he is doing a good job!
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I watched it last night under the red button on BBC News and I thought he spoke a lot of sense. His government made a hash of Northern Rock and didn't lop off the CEO's head which they should have done and this talk of a stamp duty freeze did more harm than good, but their handling of the HBOS/ Lloyds merger was spot on. No messing, they just did what needed to be done. I'm not sure if the Tories could have done the same.
Where I have a problem with Big Gordo is there's a lot of talk and not enough action. He's promised free childcare for years and still hasn't fully delivered, he's talked about proper labelling for food/ stopping the pester power of kids' TV ads and hasn't gone as far as he should. Most of all, the fair society he's banging on about is a pipedream. Under Labour the rich have got richer and the poor poorer. It could have been worse under a Tory government, but Gordo could be doing far far more.
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He was an unpopular chancellor and carried that reputation as he became PM...a PM that we didn't vote for. It was never going to be a good situation really.
We can't lay all out problems at his door, but many of us (me very much included) are still paying for the things he got wrong before he became PM and will never vote for him in the future.
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Yes, there should have been a Labour leadership election at the very least
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will wrote:
Yes, there should have been a Labour leadership election at the very least
With all the 'spin' and PR nonsense involved with the Labour party, it was a poor strategically not to hold an party election. This has played into the hands of the Tory party because Cash Gordon was never a fave even for the Labour voters and we ended up with a PM no one voted for.
However, the reason there was no party election is because no one had the balls to stand-up to Cash.
Edited Wed 24 Sep 2008 at 12:56pm
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JustThe5 wrote:
However, the reason there was no party election is because no one had the balls to stand-up to Cash.
Or he flattened them. You become leader and I'll make sure the Treasury doesn't play ball. Either way it doesn't say much about him or his party
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