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Osem 07-10-2010 22:38

Miliband's Marauders?....
 
... or a bunch of inept losers?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11494915

Will DC and NC be clapping their hands with glee?.......




* Just for anyone who doesn't know what the hell I'm referring to:

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk...0marauders.htm

Cobbydaler 07-10-2010 22:45

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Hmmm.

Lots of ex Treasury people in there.

They don't exactly have the best track record...

tosh mate 07-10-2010 22:58

Re: Miliband's Marauders?....
 
hmmmmmm well i dont normally get involved in politics but.............

politicians are the same the world over and i would not trust any of them

Hugh 07-10-2010 23:12

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Excellent - Ed Balls

DocDutch 07-10-2010 23:17

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well ed was his main rival in his fight for the leadership so keeping enemies close

Hugh 07-10-2010 23:18

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More of a frenemy, methinks....

Maggy 08-10-2010 00:22

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I think this lot are immaterial..there is going to be a lot of shifting around and it's going to be a very long time until Labour are back in power.I suspect we'll have at least one more leader in opposition and several cabinet changes before any chance at power.

frogstamper 08-10-2010 03:36

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35105588)
I think this lot are immaterial..there is going to be a lot of shifting around and it's going to be a very long time until Labour are back in power.I suspect we'll have at least one more leader in opposition and several cabinet changes before any chance at power.

I wouldn't be so sure Maggy, they are already level pegging in a recent opinion poll and thats before there has been any meaningful cuts at all.
Also don't forget that the LD vote has collapsed with the majority of those going to Labour, and at the next election there will be no third party for a protest vote.
If the Conservatives could not win an outright victory with Brown as PM, a recession and a government that had been in power for thirteen years I don't fancy their chances after the cuts that are to come.

Maggy 08-10-2010 08:48

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Quote:

Originally Posted by frogstamper (Post 35105622)
I wouldn't be so sure Maggy, they are already level pegging in a recent opinion poll and thats before there has been any meaningful cuts at all.
Also don't forget that the LD vote has collapsed with the majority of those going to Labour, and at the next election there will be no third party for a protest vote.
If the Conservatives could not win an outright victory with Brown as PM, a recession and a government that had been in power for thirteen years I don't fancy their chances after the cuts that are to come.

I'd be careful about the polls..after all Labour has had no direction since the Election because they have been having an election to pick Milliband.I wonder how many who have now taken a look and are listening, will still be of the same mind in a few weeks time?

Hugh 08-10-2010 20:15

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Interesting point about the Shadow Cabinet in today's Telegraph.
Quote:

Of the 19 people elected, eight went to fee-paying schools and two went to grammars. Of the other three people in the Shadow Cabinet, two were educated privately and one at a grammar.

In other words, a majority did not go to comprehensives. If you include Ed Miliband, six members of Labour’s front bench team did PPE at Oxford and nine went to either Oxford or Cambridge.
Also, all of Ed Miliband’s “new generation” Shadow Cabinet members were on the government payroll when Gordon Brown was Prime Minister - eighteen were ministers, and Mary Creagh was a Government whip.

Damien 08-10-2010 20:20

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I like Alan Johnson though, pleased he is high up.

Chris 08-10-2010 20:26

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Quote:

Originally Posted by frogstamper (Post 35105622)
I wouldn't be so sure Maggy, they are already level pegging in a recent opinion poll and thats before there has been any meaningful cuts at all.

The opinion polls between 1983 and 1987, and 1987 and 1992 paint a surprisingly similar picture. I really wouldn't set too much hope against polls being issued a full four-and-a-half years ahead of the next general election. ;)

Quote:

Also don't forget that the LD vote has collapsed with the majority of those going to Labour, and at the next election there will be no third party for a protest vote.
If the Conservatives could not win an outright victory with Brown as PM, a recession and a government that had been in power for thirteen years I don't fancy their chances after the cuts that are to come.
The SDP/Liberal Alliance weren't an effective third party in the 80s either.

Tezcatlipoca 08-10-2010 20:37

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35105909)
I like Alan Johnson though, pleased he is high up.

I can't stand him...

colin25 08-10-2010 20:47

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I think we should start our own party

We could start with the following pledges:

Better broadband for all.
No monopoly on football rights
Allow cable forum mods a last name..even elvis had a last name

we use this forum as our rallying cry

From little acorns :D

Damien 08-10-2010 20:49

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Does anyone know how often a ruling party has increased their share of the vote from the previous election? I was always under the impression that a governing party simply loses votes, for the obvious reason that they need to take decisions which will make them unpopular.


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