Time to go

[smokingboot]

A gracious exit from someone who at the last demonstrates great dignity. Best of luck to you and your beautiful family. Good night Mr Brown.

Comments

[evilwillow.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to see him go to be honest, he wasn't perfect but he felt a lot more real and less 'spin' than most politicians and he left with dignity.

I also noted the little publicised fact that Labour gained 420 additional councillors and control of 15 councils in the local elections where people tend not to vote tactically, no other parties gained any overall.

Plus I find it mildly amusing that the Labour Party website is claimed to have crashed last night due to an influx of new membership applications once the ConDem coalition was formally announced.

I sincerely hope we get sufficient electoral reform so that no person's vote can be thought of as wasted and people are free to vote for the party they believe in rather than feeling the need for tactical voting.

xxx

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Leaving us a deficit in the region of £163 billion, snd you know my feelings re ID cards, the criminalisation of just not being very nice, and detention without trial...no, I am not sorry to see him go. But I like this more tender touch to him and wish him well with all my heart.

Electoral reform, hmm, I await the referendum. PR= the last 5 days writ large. If there's been ideological squealing over a LibCon coalition, how will idealists feel about sitting round a table with the BNP or National Front?

Re Labour, I will be watching the leadership campaigns very closely indeed. I feel a lot more optimistic about them now!

[evilwillow.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately whilst I don't want to see BNP or UKIP seats in parliament, 1.5 million people voted for them and if we want to see everyone's voice heard and their vote count then it includes those people that voted for the BNP no matter how much I disagree with their choices.

I suspect/hope that people will vote differently if they know their vote will end up with that party gaining seats but I'm probably just being idealistic and giving people too much credit for making informed choices.

As for the deficit, global economic cycles are something I'm only just starting to touch on at uni but I can already see it's way more complicated than I realised, changes are like pulling on a loose thread or flicking a random domino, credit bubbles grow and burst all the time and usually it doesn't have too much of an impact because of when it happens in the overall cycle but if it occurs on a crucial date then the domino effect kicks in. Hopefully I'll understand more when I've finished my economics modules and can be a bit more clued up than I currently am.

As for the leadership campaign, I suspect David Milliband will end up being the new party leader, just because he has the right look about him :)

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I don't blame Gordon for global cycles. But it seems like common sense to save a little when there's a surplus, and it just didn't happen. Now here we are.

Re electoral reform, I won't go into more here, cos there's so much on the other thread...but I would never trust people to vote differently because more depends upon it. A mob making decisions is guillotine time.

I agree with you whole-heartedly about D Milliband, though I think the party would prefer Ed Balls - who is simply horrible!