[email protected] assesment.?

[Sqad]

Good old Conservative bashing and sucking up to the Unions.

[redman41]

All Political Parties do it Squad ! Nothing new about that !

[albaqwerty]

I am utterly sick of this unelected PM, wishy-washy and mealy-mouthed.

[jake-the-peg]

Sqad @ Answerbank my assessment?

Just another predictable right-whinger post inviting a long "how much I hate the government" thread

I'm sure you will be as devestated by my opinion as GB will be of yours

[Sqad]

redman...maybe, but not at the TUC.

It would be interesting to see the reaction of the Unions if Nick Clegg or David Cameron asked to be heard at the TUC.

[Sqad]

jake........once and for all.....my political history.....born to a very working class and Union influenced family, have voted both Labour and Conservative in my life....so jake......."Just another predictable right-whinger post inviting a long "how much I hate the "......give it a rest eh?

[jake-the-peg]

I'd imagine that Cameron at the TUC would be greated like Blair at the WI.

[jake-the-peg]

How you were born does not affect whether you are right or left wing

My father was a company director.

"Good old conservative bashing" is not a phrase associated with an impartial mind. Especially when it refers to making clear the hypocracy of the Tory economic policy.

Osbourne is constantly decrying the national debt whilst dodging the question of what he would have done differently.

When Andrew Marr pressed him on what cuts he'd make on Sunday he whittered on about savings at Westminster as if that were more than a drop in the ocean.

He's a lightweight and a liability

[Sqad]

jake...if course.....you are right.

[Quizmonster]

Albaqwerty, since when have we British ever elected our Prime Ministers? We choose a party of government and its leader is, by definition, the PM. John Major became Tory PM in November 1990 when they threw Thatcher out of the window and there was no General Election until April 1992. A year and a half of an "unelected" Tory Prime Minister, yet I truly cannot recall anyone of the Conservative persuasion whining about THAT! It's an utter nonsense which probably started life as a Sun or Daily Mail mantra...you really ought to give it up.

[ludwig]

QM - Perhaps he's referring to the fact that Gordon Brown wasn't even elected to the leadership of his own party. At least John Major can claim that.

[Quizmonster]

I somehow suspect, Ludwig, that that was NOT what he/she was referring to, given that nobody ELSE has ever intended the word to be thus interpreted! In any case, if no one opposes you, you ARE effectively "elected", surely. However, I'm perfectly happy to say he was "chosen by acclamation"!
(I apologise for the use of upper case above; I'm not shouting, but there seems to be no facility for the use of italics.)

[ludwig]

Which raises an interesting general knowledge question. When he goes at the next election will he have been the only person to serve as PM that was never elected to the position by either the electorate or his own party?

[Quizmonster]

As I said earlier, Ludwig, nobody in modern times in Britain has been made Prime Minister by the electorate. Accordingly, the first part of your general knowledge question is an irrelevance. The second part is no more than an anomaly of vocabulary, given that 'elected' simply means 'chosen' as well as 'chosen by vote' . The phrase "God's chosen people" does not mean that God had to go into a polling-booth to come to a decision! If Brown wasn't 'chosen' after Blair's departure, who was?
I'll leave it at that.

[ludwig]

QM - No need to get touchy just because your man's so useless. We both agree that he wasn't elected by the electorate (a technicality which you were keen to highlight) , and we both agree that he wasn't elected by his party (a technicality that you wanted to ignore, on the grounds that it was just a technicality).
Watch out for that question in future pub quizzes.

[Quizmonster]

Ludwig, I came by my AnswerBank user-name by virtue of having been for many years the quiz-master at a whole variety of different pubs in my locality and - by post - beyond. As a result, acquaintances in my own local christened me, 'Monsterquizzer'. (That was simply too long for AnswerBank, hence the abbreviation.)
Given that over 90% of pub quizzers are familiar with the silly mantra about an "unelected Prime Minister" - and specifically to whom it refers - I can't see much chance of your question being chosen by any quiz-master worth his salt for a generation or two. And, even then, it will still be an absurdity.

(How is it that my three responses are "getting touchy" whilst your three are presumably sweet reason and light? And we await with bated breath the miraculous plans to be offered by 'your man'. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! Couldn't give us a clue, could you?

[Sqad]

Quizmonster/ludwig....come on....enough is enough....you have both made your points eloquently.

[ludwig]

My mistake - Obviously nothing at all touchy about those replies. I see that now.
I don't have 'a man' by the way. I'm a floating voter.