wednesday1 Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 A new poll for The Guardian shows that support for the ConDem coaltion has fallen from 59% in May to just 43% now. The only people who remain enthusiastic are Tory voters, 76% of whom still back the coalition. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/26/coalition-government-support-dramatically-down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandad.Malky Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Thats gone and spoiled my festive spirit …………. Best get another drink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Whom will the near on 10 million unemployed vote for, if united they form a majority and could seize power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky3 Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 If Labour were to get back in now, surely we would be in for some serious problems! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandad.Malky Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 If Labour were to get back in now, surely we would be in for some serious problems! What and we aren’t already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 What and we aren’t already? Well, we'd have another six months to a year of complaining that the coalition didn't know what they were doing, detailing step-by-step every bad thing that has happened so far (regardless of who was to blame), and then disbanding a load of government departments in order to form a load of government departments in order to review the preceeding term in order to work out what to do. Maybe we should go for bi-annual elections, with a maximum of three weeks campaigning and two weeks of review after the election. After those two weeks, any policies the incoming lot promised to scrap or implement must be done so. None of this bringing in all the unliked policies (and scrapping previous popular ones) at the start of the 5 year term, while bringing in the popular policies at the end of the 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Well, we'd have another six months to a year of complaining that the coalition didn't know what they were doing, detailing step-by-step every bad thing that has happened so far (regardless of who was to blame), and then disbanding a load of government departments in order to form a load of government departments in order to review the preceeding term in order to work out what to do. Maybe we should go for bi-annual elections, with a maximum of three weeks campaigning and two weeks of review after the election. After those two weeks, any policies the incoming lot promised to scrap or implement must be done so. None of this bringing in all the unliked policies (and scrapping previous popular ones) at the start of the 5 year term, while bringing in the popular policies at the end of the 5 years. The Brits have a sweet tooth and are easily persuaded by pre-election sweetners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fartown Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 If Labour were to get back in now, surely we would be in for some serious problems! If Labour were back in power tomorrow, does anybody really think they would reverse the cuts? When asked whether he would scrap (or change) the tuition fees increase, Milliband was unwilling to commit himself. As others (notably Wildcat) have pointed out on other threads, most of the UK's debt is long-term debt and it isn't repayable anytime soon. That's the money we already owe. The money for the deficit has yet to be borrowed and if the deficit reduction plans are scrapped, the amount the government needs to borrow will increase. If Labour were back in power and if they did scrap or reverse significant amounts of the savings introduced by the coalition government, what would that do to the willingness of foreign countries to lend money to the government? Would the UK be facing the sort of interest rates faced by Ireland? How much further would the Pound fall? What would that do to the price of oil and the cost of imports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimay Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 The Brits have a sweet tooth and are easily persuaded by pre-election sweetners. Not all Brits............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fartown Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 The Brits have a sweet tooth and are easily persuaded by pre-election sweetners. Some of them have false teeth. Does that mean they are easily persuaded by pre-election falsehoods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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