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 Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject: David Cameron: Our next Prime Minister? |
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Do you think that David Cameron will be our next Prime Minister? All the polls are showing a defeat for Labour at the next General Election and in all likely hood "Dave" will be the next man in charge.
Do you think he will be any good though?
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Chepfer
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| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Actually as a leader i think he'd be very good, he's young, enthusiastic and has the right ideas ...... though not sure about his party backing |
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rosco
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| Chepfer wrote: | | Actually as a leader i think he'd be very good, he's young, enthusiastic and has the right ideas ...... though not sure about his party backing |
Deja-vu : weren't the same things said about Tony Blair? |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Chepfer wrote: | | Actually as a leader i think he'd be very good, he's young, enthusiastic and has the right ideas ...... though not sure about his party backing |
Care to expand on his "party backing"?
I think he will be a breathe of fresh air, and let's face it, he couldn't do much worse than Mr Brown. David Cameron has got some tough decisions to make over the next five years on how to pay back all of this quantitative easing.
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Peter Dolman
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we all know that Tony Blair said and promised anything just to get elected. How can any politician be trusted?
David Cameron appears to another Tony Blair, in so far as the Conservatives are determined to get themselves elected!
Brown is trying to pinch the Lib dem vote by promising to introduce PR, but we should remember that he promised a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty before the last election but then changed his mind when they were re-elected.
The question is can David Cameron be trusted.
As a committed Lib Dem I would like to see a hung parliament so that all the politicians have to work together to resolve our current issues.
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| Peter Dolman wrote: | | As a committed Lib Dem I would like to see a hung parliament so that all the politicians have to work together to resolve our current issues. |
Is that the only way that a Lib Dem MP would ever have real power? 
I'm not so keen on the hung parliament idea. A single political party with ideas about the country in general should be in charge with the other political parties shadowing their every move to make them accountable for their actions - exactly what we have now. Unfortunately weak leaders have not enforced some governmental rules on ethics.
The hung parliament idea seems to me, please correct me if I am wrong, that it will be just like a huge committee meeting between all the different political factions all with different ideas and agendas on what needs to be done. I can't see much work getting done between the political right and political left of policies because there would be no agreement and any appeasement would surely go against any principles that the respective parties have.
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Peter Dolman
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I know where you are coming from but we have had 12 or more years of labour preceded by the conservatives for the same period.
there is not a lot between them as far as policies are concerned but because of huge majorities they can do what they want. ie promise one thing (referedum on the lisbon treaty) but break the promise as soon as they are elected.
a hung parliament might be one way of curbing excessess.
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