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Peter Dolman
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 Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:05 am Post subject: Should brown resign? |
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Following the local elections around the country New Labour has become more unpopular. Gordon Brown claims that he is listening but will he change.
The scrapping of the 10% tax band hit the least well of the most and his has stated that compensation will be given to the hardest hit. Do you believe him?
I believe he should resign and call a general election now, vote now. You can vote now!
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GTB
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There are many problems with Mr Brown. Firstly, it was Brown who introduced the 10p tax rate in 1999 and heralded it as a great aide to the low earners and the poor of the United Kingdom. Fast forward to the budget of 2007 and he decides it wasn't that good after all and set plans to scrap the 10p rate in April 2008. He has since admitted that he has made a mistake - which is fair enough - but shouldn't his anylists have forseen this political cock-up??
The biggest problem that I can see with Mr Brown is that he is not democratically elected by the people of the United Kingdom. They voted in a Labour government which was headed by Tony Blair who held different aspirations for the country. He should do the honourable thing and call a General Election, which he was tempted to do last November but got cold feet. Any leader of this country should be fully endorsed by the voting public of this country not be put in place by some "old-boys club".
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rosco
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:03 am Post subject: |
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The biggest problem that I can see with Mr Brown is that he is not democratically elected by the people of the United Kingdom. They voted in a Labour government which was headed by Tony Blair who held different aspirations for the country. He should do the honourable thing and call a General Election, which he was tempted to do last November but got cold feet. Any leader of this country should be fully endorsed by the voting public of this country not be put in place by some "old-boys club". |
In fact no-one elects the prime-minster anyway - we had the same discussion at the time of Mr. Major taking over from Maggie - all you do is vote for your local representative, and, if they are the majority party, they decide who is their leader and thus prime minister.
It might seem that you're choosing the person with the style of campaigning done now, but it is actually the party and a potential candidate to leader that is all. |
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GTB
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But if Gordon Brown had been the leader of the Labour Party at the last general election would the voters have been so keen to vote them in? For the floating voter it is the personallity of the party leaders which may sway any votes not their local MP.
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Clunk
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| I am gonna vote for the chap who gets rid of the stupid amounts of duty the motorist has to pay. |
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GTB
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Amen to that, Clunk.
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