[IPAndrews]

"You bottled out of calling an election!" Tory leader David Cameron tells Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown because he doesn't call an early general election. What an insightful and productive contribution to the democratic process. Please can someone pick up Mr Cameron's dummy and hand it back to him. It's okay I'm not angry. It was past 7pm and David was just tired. Little David was very upset bless him. Especially after he dared Gordon. In fact he double and TRIPPLE dared him!

Today David is complaining that Labour stole one of their policies. This was a surprise as I wasn't aware there was some kind of intelectual copyright on political ideas. Whoever came up with democracy should look check that out. They're missing out on some serious royalties. Gordon also stole David's homework. So David called Gordon names. I'm of the opinion that as punishment David should be told to stand in the corner with his hands on his head and later be sent to bed without any dinner. Oh and now the Lib Dems (read: The Pointless Party) have claimed that everybody is copying off them.

FFS British politics suck at the moment.

[Hazaanko]

Just be thankful they're not killing each other or randomly dissolving their own government completely like the rest of the world 





well, not yet anyways

[karajorma]

"You bottled out of calling an election!" Tory leader David Cameron tells Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown because he doesn't call an early general election. What an insightful and productive contribution to the democratic process. Please can someone pick up Mr Cameron's dummy and hand it back to him. It's okay I'm not angry. It was past 7pm and David was just tired. Little David was very upset bless him. Especially after he dared Gordon. In fact he double and TRIPPLE dared him!

I know. I find that very funny. Especially in light of the fact that I doubt he was on his soapbox calling for John Major to call an election when he was in the exact same position.

Today David is complaining that Labour stole one of their policies. This was a surprise as I wasn't aware there was some kind of intelectual copyright on political ideas. Whoever came up with democracy should look check that out. They're missing out on some serious royalties. Gordon also stole David's homework. So David called Gordon names. I'm of the opinion that as punishment David should be told to stand in the corner with his hands on his head and later be sent to bed without any dinner.

And quite frankly that makes me want to vote for Gordon Brown more than David Cameron any day of the week. I'd rather have someone leading the country who recognises a good idea for what it is than someone who refuses to think anything could be worth doing unless they came up with it.

Instead of complaining about theft Cameron should have kept his mouth shut and pointed out at the election how come all Brown's best ideas were actually thought up by the Conservatives. That would have been a much more mature attitude to take and would have scored a lot more points with the voters than crying about how Gordon's copying him.

Of course the funny thing is that if he continues this way Cameron is going to look like an even bigger baby and no one is going to want to vote for him cause of that. Can you imagine this man at a G8 conference?


Now if only Gordon would sort out where he sits on the whole stupid 90 day detentions **** I might actually consider voting Labour for the first time since John Smith died. But while he's still threatening to bring in that nonsense I'm not even remotely interested.

[IceFire]

IP, the scary bit is that that ridiculous banter is still far far far better than some of the alternatives offered elsewhere in the world. 

Actually it sounds ALLOT like Canada and most of it sounds like the election we had here in Ontario just yesterday.

The Conservatives (Progressive Conservatives they call themselves these days) spent most of their TV ad dollars/time on bashing the current Liberal premier of the province and they wondered why the media only picked up on their public funding for religious schools idea because that seemed to be the only one they put forward before they started bashing.  Meanwhile the Liberals could basically walk on water because the Conservatives were just launching attack after attack and then the NDP and Green's got to squabble over the rest.

In federal politics we've have a minority government that could fall at any time (for two years now) and everyone is chest beating over who is actually going to pull the plug.

Sure some of the names are different but its mostly the same thing

Heck we borrowed the system from you guys...one of the best in the world I firmly believe.

[Kosh]

FFS British politics suck at the moment

So I guess there is no chance of the British Empire coming back for the next few years?

[TrashMan]

You think YOUR politics suck?

You're lucky you don't have the idiots, sellouts, yes-men and ex-commies in every single factet of your government in a overwhelming majority like we do here.

I think this is hte only country in the world where the people voted for the same persons that persecuted them several years ago, that wanted to destroy hte country before it was created.... my people have a really crappy memory.

[Mars]

At least your countries don't declare war on half the population of the world at the drop of a hat.

[Kosh]

You're lucky you don't have the idiots, sellouts, yes-men and ex-commies in every single factet of your government in a overwhelming majority like we do here.

No instead we have idiots, sellouts, yes-men, and ex corperate suits in every single facet of our government in an overwhelming majority. The american political system is getting increasingly dysfunctional and disconnected from reality. Almost all of the presidential candidates seem to live in their own duh-mention.

[TrashMan]

At least your countries don't declare war on half the population of the world at the drop of a hat.

no, but my country leadership seems to have declared war on the country itself, runing it and selling it out at speeds that would make Superman and Flash look like 2 corpses with concrete feet.

[Roanoke]

say what you will about cameron but it's palin to see GB was going to call an election but did a u-turn when he saw negative opinion polls.

[karajorma]

You're probably correct but that's how politics works. Can't blame him for not doing it, especially as he has something like 2 1/2 years left of his term.

I'm still waiting to see what he does with them before I decide. Unlike Tony Blair who set off my SmugToryBastard-O-meter, I'm having trouble getting a reading on Brown now that he's not having to be Tony's yes man.

[Agent_Koopa]

IP, the scary bit is that that ridiculous banter is still far far far better than some of the alternatives offered elsewhere in the world. 

Actually it sounds ALLOT like Canada and most of it sounds like the election we had here in Ontario just yesterday.

The Conservatives (Progressive Conservatives they call themselves these days) spent most of their TV ad dollars/time on bashing the current Liberal premier of the province and they wondered why the media only picked up on their public funding for religious schools idea because that seemed to be the only one they put forward before they started bashing.  Meanwhile the Liberals could basically walk on water because the Conservatives were just launching attack after attack and then the NDP and Green's got to squabble over the rest.

I don't pay attention to politics, not being old enough to vote, but have you seen that PC commercial? How can we trust John Tory to manage our budget when he can't even afford a proper pie chart?

[Roanoke]

on the subject of politics, how the hell has Robert Mugabe stayed in power for so long ?

[Mobius]

FFS British politics suck at the moment

So I guess there is no chance of the British Empire coming back for the next few years?

The Roman Empire came to an end, our time finished. The British Empire came to an end, so your time is also finished. "Burning into History"...

You think YOUR politics suck?

You're lucky you don't have the idiots, sellouts, yes-men and ex-commies in every single factet of your government in a overwhelming majority like we do here.

I think this is hte only country in the world where the people voted for the same persons that persecuted them several years ago, that wanted to destroy hte country before it was created.... my people have a really crappy memory.

TrashMan, I thought you were Croatian! Since when you live in Italy?

We're having a particular situation...the Veltro(ni) prophetized by Dante leading a "Partito Democratico"(of some sort...). Sounds fun since there are billions of small parties, all with different ideas. How can you expect them to share something? Looks like Italy before the unification in 1861...

Your politicians are definitely better...have you ever heard of the V-Day? People hate politicians...most Italian would prefer anarchy.

[IceFire]

on the subject of politics, how the hell has Robert Mugabe stayed in power for so long ?

As I understand it...he was far less psych before and presided over one of the best periods of that countries history.  And then he went all screwball.  Honestly I think his days are numbered.  When the country runs out of bread the regime will end...since they are painfully close to that it will happen.

[TrashMan]

Your politicians are definitely better...have you ever heard of the V-Day? People hate politicians...most Italian would prefer anarchy.

You havn't seen what we have here.

You might have greedy and inept politicins - everyone does..maby even sellouts... But what country in the world has sworn enemies of the state inside it's own government????
We got people who fought against us in the war, people who before Croatia declared independance have done everything to stop that same independance on government payroll!!!!

[Mobius]

So? Have you ever heard of Alessandra Mussolini(try to Google Mussolini)? She's an active politician and acts like her grandfather...and no one kicked her out. It's quite annoying since our Constitution prohibits the restablishment of any form of Fascism.

And we had politicians who supported Berlusconi in approving laws designed to give The Knight as much money as possible(and the population paid the price), in direct or undirect ways.

And we have criminals in our Parliament. I know you speak Italian, TrashMan. Check this out:

http://www.beppegrillo.it/condannati_parlamento.php

There were 25 criminals in our Parliament. Despite the pressure, the number is down to 24. What an encouraging achievement