All these damn rules controlling every aspect of life!

[Doctor Drivel]

Jerry, please get help.

[Huge]

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Oh, the irony.

[Doctor Drivel]

Any old irony?

[John Cartmell]

.. but the Labour backbenchers are the only opposition that is working. The Tories, LibDems, media, and all the so-called opposition professionals &c would rather confine themselves to tittle-tattle rather than meaty politics and so the labour Party has to DIY.

The government still won. ;-)

[Brian Sharrock]

And; we actually know the name of the ONE:- it transpires that the MP who's vote saved 'Tony' was a certain David Blunkett

- 'I haven't done nothing wrong!"- who returned to the Common's lobby to vote for the government -without his vote it would've been a tie.

'in Office but not in Power ... '

__

Brian

[meow2222]

Yes, keep playing the game, the duopoly game.

Lab pushes the electorate as far as it can, until eventually everyone says "somebody other than this current lot might make some sense"

Con pushes the electorate as far as it can, until eventually everyone says "somebody other than this current lot might make some sense"

Rinse & Repeat.

Regrettably I dont have a full solution.

NT

[:::Jerry::::]

I doubt that there will be many (self respecting) political historians who will disagree with "Cenfus", economic growth is not like a tungsten light bulb being switched on - more like a sodium bulb - a dim glimmer of light slowly develops into a bright light over time. You might be right in your suggestion that it wasn't the economic policy put in place by Thatcher that has caused the present economic growth but *will* have been that put in place by Mayor. All the present Government has done is spend the wealth generated from it... Time will tell if this administration has been economically successful in their own right.

[:::Jerry::::]

It's you who needs help - in maths by the looks of it - a majority of ONE, that is one more than no majority and considering that they

*should* be able to *expect* a majority of 66...

[:::Jerry::::]

Bill,

I must admit to nearly spitting a mouthful of coffee over the TV when he came out with that phrase, a certain irony in it...

[dennis]

Has anyone actually looked at how many unemployed there are? There are lots and there is noway we have full employment.

Tony may have adjusted the figures but he hasn't supplied any jobs.

[:::Jerry::::]

again.

Err well, seeing that countries like Germany and France might well have to go through the same economic / industry reforms that the UK went through in the early '80's I'm not at all sure if it was squandered - it could be, that perticular Thaterright policy was ahead of it's time. IOW, north aea oil was what allowed us to get a head start.

She was a incompetent idiot, with a crowd of yes

Hmm, sounds familiar, Blair meet Thatcher, Thatcher meet Blair...

But then you are only a 17 year old counter bod...

[unopened]

In which case, the Speaker would have exercised his casting vote in favour of the Government of the day. Ties are always resolved in favour of the Government.

ob d-i-y: Would d-i-y government be anarchy?

Regards,

Sid

[John]

Right down to the television cameras watching the streets of our towns and motorists!

What we need is a political group with the determination to cut state interference with our lives not the present crews ever increasing intrusion

[John Cartmell]

The present government do. You may have noticed that they are not playing that game. That's why there is no opposition.

[Doctor Drivel]

Jerry, please get help.

[John Cartmell]

Destroying your industry is *not* reform. Spending your capital on unemployment benefit is *not* good sense. Most of what Thatcher did was damaging to the country. Some of it was nasty, vindictive, murderous, and in any equitable society she would have been hung, drawn, and quartered before she became senile.

OK Arguably that would have been before she became PM but that's not an argument that I'd accept. She was sane at the time of her crimes. Bad - but not mad.

[Doctor Drivel]

That is it. Jerry please get professional help.

[Doctor Drivel]

A skills mismatch. We are desperately short of building skills.

[Doctor Drivel]

He is doing it gain. Jerry please get professional help.

[Doctor Drivel]

What might that be?