To the people who did not vote Tory

[FREDFOX]

FRED SAYS THANKS

[zita-green]

Harsh words, Bob. He is doing what Prime Ministers have to do: get on with government until the coalition is sorted. He did save the banks; even foreign governments followed his example. He's not a moron, though he's clearly uncomfortable one-to-one. Stand him on a podium and he makes barnstorming speeches but he's hopeless with people. I feel a bit sorry for him. When he's surrounded by people and noise, he has to break eye-contact in order to listen.

[bobjugs12]

He saved the banks? Or the civil servants who created the plans and ideas for him to announce in Parliment?
I stand by my statement that he is a liar though

[zita-green]

What politician isn't, Bob. If they tell the truth, they are crucified by the press and if they tell lies they are crucified by the press.
Why aren't we allowed to see the expenses of journalists: hypocritical, scaremongering, smug, pompous ars** who pretend to moral outrage when they are doing the same things as politicians. Makes you want to puke.

[askyourgran]

Brown will hang on to the death until his own party tell him he's got to go. He's thick skinned, he was not voted in to his position in the first place, and he was not voted for by the majority this time. Any decent right thinking man would resign, leave Downing Street to let the most successful party get on with the job of creating a new Government.

[VINNY100_2]

let the tories and libs have it for a few months.Labour gets a new leader.The voters are pi$$ed of with the con-lib pact, game over.And who gained the most Councils and gained the most Councillors in the local elections on may the 6th...LABOUR.

[mike11111]

Pity it wasn't cannonballs. You might have more luck then. I don't want to start another thread, but I cannot for the life of me see any justification for a British military presence in Afghanistan, unless one believes that it is the nerve centre of international terrorism, which clearly it isn't. Do our politicians not read history? The three Afghan wars of the 19C plus the Soviet experience from1978 to 1989 should have taught them something. As Kipling put it:

"When you're wounded and lie on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
The roll on yer rifle and blow out yer brains,
And go to your Gawd like a soldier."

How poignant, yet how very telling.

[bobjugs12]

Zita, if I don't like a paper then I choose not to buy it. Thus depriving that media outlet of my income. Can I choose not to pay my taxes, thus depriving the MPs of their income? Nope.

Big difference is that Cameron or Clegg has not told parliment and inquiries lies about the state of funding with regard to the people his government has sent to fight in conflicts. These people (myself included) have been underfunded and ignored by the government.