Miliband's Marauders?....

[Osem]

... 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]

Hmmm.

Lots of ex Treasury people in there.

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

[tosh mate]

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

Excellent - Ed Balls

[DocDutch]

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

More of a frenemy, methinks....

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]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

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.

Originally Posted by frogstamper

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?

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

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.

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

Originally Posted by frogstamper

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.

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]

Originally Posted by Damien

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

I can't stand him...

[colin25]

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

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.