Cameron Wants Another Seven Years In Office.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/06/david-cameron-seven-years-downing-street

So Cameron wants another seven years in office, if you think that there is 'NO CHANCE', who would you wish to see rule the nation?

We saw 13 disastrous years under Labour, would you wish them to return, and if so under what leader?

Would another coalition party but this time a Tory/Labour one, be the answer?

[ichkeria]

Well that's hardly a surprise. What would you expect him to say: that he wants to lose the next election or the Tory leadership? If he isn't going to be the next PM it will be Ed Miliband. If one of the major parties doesn't have an overall majority then there may well be another coalition. What is interesting is whether Labour would want to do so with a Clegg-led LibDems

[VHG]

>>>but this time a Tory/Labour one

Do you mean a Labour/Liberal one?

I cant see there ever being a Tory/Labour one except in time of war.

[Gromit]

A Labour landslide looks more likely than a coalition Government.

The LibDem vote will collapse and Labour will get most of those (as it has done in the bye-elections). Conservative voters are dissatisfied but will not vote for either of the other parties, so they will stay at home.

Most of the conservatives I know are more anti tjis Government than I am. Over Christmas I met a Conservative Councillor who actually said he was hoping Labour would win the next election. The Shire Counties are very anti Cameron and hope he does badly so they can get rid of him.

The remains of what is left of the LibDems will ditch Clegg.

I am not convinced by Ed but he has really done much wrong in opposition. He is miles ahead of where Cameron was two years before the last election. The Coalition is so unpopular that Labour could have anyone as leader and they would win by miles.

'Another seven years' just shows how oblivious Cameron is to the mood of the country.

[Gromit]

Whoops

but he hasn't really done much wrong

[humbersloop]

I suppose there's always an outside possibility of a tory/ukip coalition.

That'd be interesting.

[humbersloop]

Anyway, why seven years? Is dave unaware parliamentary terms were fixed at five by this government in 2010?

[Gromit]

Humbersloop

The next election is in two years time 2015. And then five years later in 2020.

[starone]

If there is a UKIP candidate in this district that is who I shall vote for. I voted last time for UKIP but I know my vote was probably wasted. However, you have to keep trying and that is what I shall do.

[humbersloop]

I know gromit. Is he implying he's likely to get the elbow before 2015 then?

[ichkeria]

There won't be a Tory/UKIP coalition because UKIP won't have any seats. If the mood of the Shire Tories is as Gromit claims then the Tories are finished for the foreseeable future.
There is still hope for the LibDems if they were to break from the coalition early. They ought at least to get some credit for wrecking Cameron's plans for boundary changes. What I find distasteful is the thought of them becoming a perpetual party of coalition, shifting their position from right to left as the need arises.

[ichkeria]

If somehow UKIP DID find themselves with some seats it would probably be in a Tory meltdown scenario which would mean a Labour government anyway

[Gromit]

Humbersloop

Yes he is. As I mentioned earlier, the Conservative Shires want get rid of him as leader. The question is, do they let him lose the election and it will be easy or do they do it before the election?

[anotheoldgit]

I know this Tory/ Lib Dem coalition has been a disaster, but have most forgot what the Blair/Brown Labour government did to this country?

Another Labour government would be a disaster of the maximum proportions no matter who led it, and according to recent rumours that could be Mr Blair yet again.

[ichkeria]

I read an article some months ago outlining the circumstances in which Tony Blair might be the next PM and it read like science fiction. It's less likely than Boris Johnson being next PM. In fact it's less likely than Magic Johnson being next PM...

[Gromit]

// according to recent rumours that could be Mr Blair //

And it was also rumoured that the moon is made of cheese.

[Svejk]

Do you think Labour will have/reveal one policy in time for the next election.

[Mick-Talbot]

We saw 13 disastrous years under Labour




All 13 years were disastrous?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Blair said his time spent on other activities since leaving Downing Street probably meant he was now better equipped to lead the country. ///

/// "What I have learned in the last five years would have been so useful to me," he said. "Because when you see how the world is developing you get a far clearer picture of some of the issues our country is grappling with.” ///

[Gromit]

Thetaliesin

I imagine they will publish a manifesto before the next election which will contain all their policies.

They are keeping their powder dry at the monent. They have a 10 point lead over the Conservatives without really trying.

My beef with Milliband is not lack of policies (I think most voters know Labour's position) but the lack of any fight. Perhaps they are giving the Coalition enough rope.

[Gromit]

AOG
That does not mean he is after the job. It means he learned very little in the thirteen years he was in Government.

Blair is tainted as you are want to remind us. Why on earth would Labour bring him back? They have a huge lead in the polls, they are not desperate.