When His Tonyness walked through the door of number 10 in 1997..

[R1Geezer]

Who thought it would take 13 years to kill off the Noo Labour experiment? Who Hoped it would end sooner? Who hoped it would last forever? Come on come clean for the Geezer!

[ummmm]

Is there any point in answering you?

[sandyRoe]

He was following Major and before him Thatcher. I felt then the the un-official anthem, 'Things can only get better', might for once be true.
You live and learn.

[R1Geezer]

come on ummm, you dissapoint me, no whine about the process? no "they didn't really win" allegation? No Glib anti British comment? I know you must be gutted the public have booted your mates out but come on even Kinnochio was boyant this morning! See the question above I reckon Noo Labour would welcome a bit of R&R.

[MarkRae]

What sort of party can't win an overall majority even after thirteen years in opposition? What on earth have they been doing all this time...?

[R1Geezer]

atta boy mark!

[MarkRae]

Whoosh!

[ummmm]

No whine about the process I'm afraid. They and we all knew how it worked....

I'm not happy about it though.

[youngmafbog]

Well to be honest it seemed to start off ok, then we got Gordon with his stealth taxes gradually creeping in, rmember such things aas the tax on pension divis so now we all dont have enough pensions?
13 years, seems like an eternity, particualry the last 3. Some good points of course, got old Sadam and his mates doing the Sadam shuffle and of course sorting out the terrorists in Afghanistan, albeit on a Brown shoesrting. All priase to our lads, echoed even by Gordon last night.

God what a relief.

[R1Geezer]

You forgot IR35 YMB, where the party of small business, shafted 65000 err small businesses. Doh! Then there was the pension raid, that's going to ensure we all work till we drop. The cock up with the gold a mere trifle in comparison! Oh and let's not forget the last 2 ever uses of the parliament act to help out their gay chums. All in all I don't mind having to cosy up with Clegg and co by comparison.

[jake-the-peg]

When his Tonyness walked through the door in 1997

There was no minimum wage

There was section 28

The IRA were bombing Britain

Fox hunting was legal

If new evidence came up you couldn't retry someone

If someone completed their sentence they had to be released - now we have Indeterminate Public protection sentences

Let's see how many of these the Libervatives want to undo eh?

[craft1948]

I think Major paved the way for Irish peace process. not Blair.

[jake-the-peg]

I think not

There was an awful lot of work in the first year most of it done by the late Mo Molem

I'd like to see your evidence for Major's contribution

[youngmafbog]

I think you will find that Major did play a major (no pun intended) part in getting the final process going, however being such a large problem it was never going to be solved overnight. Mo was certainly very instrumental in the process and my thanks do go to her for making my life safer working in London.

fox Hunting. Well that says it all doesnt it. That and the blatent misuse of the Parliament Act show what a farce it turned into.

Oh, I forgot R1.the 10p in the £ tax rate. Nothing like getting the Poor to pay up is there ? And the Tories are supposed to be inconsiderate?

[R1Geezer]

There was no minimum wage
- excellent Market forces will find the correct wage for any job

There was section 28
- excellent gay propaganda barred from schools

The IRA were bombing Britain
- That's what happens when you are at war, we fight with one hand tied behind our backs to appease the yoghurt knitters, Blair surrendered to the IRA for a quiet life, now Sinn Fien Laud it up in Parliament without going into the Commons. Result? I don't know!

Fox hunting was legal
- Still is pretty well, almost impossible to prosecute, got to hand it to His tonyness for his cunning here, anyway is controlling vermin really a government priority?

If new evidence came up you couldn't retry someone
- Well done

If someone completed their sentence they had to be released - now we have Indeterminate Public protection sentences
- Yes but we could have just sentenced them to life meaning life in the first place.

I doubt the Conservabals will bother with trivia when they have 13 years of Noo Labour sh1te to clear up.

[craft1948]

sorry jake...it's only from the DM..

http://www.dailymail....er-peace-address.html

[ASSAM]

I am glad this Nick has power now

Nick Clegg said he’d like to give illegal immigrants an amnesty to bring them into the tax system etc…

The Liberal Democrats say “We will allow people who have been in Britain without the correct papers for 10 years, but speak English, have a clean record and want to live here long-term to earn their citizenship. This route to citizenship will not apply to people arriving after 2010.”

[anotheoldgit]

Hitler said his Third Reich would last for a thousand years, but it only lasted for 12years.

So give or take a year or so, it seems Dictatorships don't have a very good track record.

[zita-green]

Tories: so gracious in defeat; so magnanimous in victory

[McMouse]

His Tonyness will be cracking up at the sight of Broon scuttling off back to kiltland.
Lord Mandy has lost his car, office and regiments of staff.
The whole lying pack of spin doctors will now have to find proper jobs.
The icing on the cake will be publication of the Iraq enquiry when hopefully Blair will be shown in his true colours.

[Androcles]

After Tone:

RingTone - Message for John Prescott
InTonation - When the Pope makes Tone a Saint
DeTonation - What Gordon really wanted....
Tone Deaf - Gordon Brown at No 10
BinaTone - strange sexual preference
Gin and Tonic - A No. 10 Party for the Celebs
CataTonia - A state of rigidity when displaying a lack of knowledge of how to get rid of Tone
Tonometer - a device for measuring the frequency of Tone (true - look it up!)
STone - what the Labour Manifesto was set in when negotiating with the Lib Dems
PiTone - an object used by climbers to stand on when getting to the top (eg a certain ex Business Secretary and Lord Fixit)
SkeleTone - Labour Back bench after the elections without him
MonoTone - Alistair Campbell sings "There's only one ...."
EsTonia - Where Gordon wished Tone had been Prime Minister