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 Changing of the Guard for British Gov’tPosted on May 2, 2008
To say it was a politically interesting week would be a case of British understatement: London gained a new mayor—Boris Johnson, who beat incumbent Ken Livingstone to become the first Conservative to win the office—and Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour Party took a drubbing in local elections across the U.K. on May Day.
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By Douglas Chalmers, May 4, 2008 at 3:55 am #
You mean they can actually think???? Most of the “thinkers” left in the late 1940’s….... its been semi-tribal ever since.
Report thisBy lodipete, May 3, 2008 at 8:14 am #
Things move in cycles. Labor had a nice long run that was preceded by the Tory mandate of Thatcher. Whenever I listen to British political debates, it’s the Liberal Party’s cantidates that usually make the most sense. I wonder why they’re not more of a factor. The “Irish Question” has been long solved.
Report thisBy beek, May 3, 2008 at 4:50 am #
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I give up waiting for a UK politician to come to the fore; Labour was a disaster much like their predecessors the Torys; so now we all expect the Torys to be better than before? ha ha ha
UK is as dead as the US is soon to be. Down to BAD decisions from BADly organised thinkers.
Report thisBy Kiwi, May 3, 2008 at 3:44 am #
Tony Blairs’ being seen as President Bushs’ lapdog will, as you say, sadly cost the UK 10 years of Tory rule. The world wide showing of the tape, when neither men realized the microphones were on, showing how unimportant Blair was to Bush made him a laughing stock and showed the American leaders’ contempt for the rest of the world, even Americas’ closest friends. In Blairs’ defence I do think HE genuinely believed they were doing the right thing for the right reasons. Tony Blair never recovered credibility and took his Labour Party down with him.
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, May 3, 2008 at 3:21 am #
.......London today http://www.ishqrecords.com/Videos/dodatdance.htm -enjoy da weekend!
Report thisBy Mayponce, May 3, 2008 at 12:38 am #
England’s Jesse Ventura or Schwarzenegger. Well at least this helps prove the English are just as stupid as Americans.
Tony Blair brought on the Labor defeat with his idiotic Iraq policy, needless Bush ball licking (“I know what I’ll do, I’ll cozy up to the most unpopular American president in history, and a right wing wacko to boot, that ought to make me popular at home”....), and his crazy-ass Christian hypocrisy.
Blair’s horrible legacy will cost the UK 10 years of Tory rule that will make Thatcher look like anarchist.
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