Eastleigh Result - The Beginning Of The End For Cameron?

[Gromit]

Daily Torygraph

// Tories pushed into third place behind the Lib Dems and Ukip, sparking major questions over Cameron's leadership amid growing doubts he can win the next general election. //

Will the men in grey suits act before or after they lose the election?

[ichkeria]

"Re-instate the unions at GCHQ - That's good is it????
Devolution for Scotland and Wales - Pointless expense creating another layer of snout in the trough politicians to pay for not to mention the holyrood lego set!
Re-balance the spending on education - please ellaborate.
The Anglo-Irish Agreement - Surrender to the IRA and invite them to put their snouts in our trough, wonderful! "

My previous caveat nicely illustrated :-)

[factor-fiction]

Did I miss something wonderful that they [Labour] did between 1997-2010?
Well yes: they sold off a lot of gold that was gathering dust, raised a large amount of money from pension funds, found the WMD and consequently fought and won a war in Iraq, invested huge amounts of money in the public sector and almost prevented a banking crisis

[emmie]

is that a joke ^^

[Sqad]

factor-fiction

\\\raised a large amount of money from pension funds,\\\

Too bloody right....MY money....money that i had worked hard to earn and to pay into my Pension Plan.

Nice one....FF

[Bazile]

I've got a stalking horse at the ready - waiting for the nod .

Toppling him will be easy meat

[emmie]

sold off gold reserves, plundered private pensions, got us involved in a war, had one of the most unpopular PM's in living memory, G Brown, and left us in any almighty financial mess, not just the bankers, if the last government wanted to do something about them why didn't they when in power.

[Bazile]

..//one of the most unpopular PM's in living memory, //

How many elections did he win , did you say ?

[emmie]

invested money which we didn't have, in large scale projects, created a division in Britain by allowing massive immigration, Blair said so, he wanted to make Britain a truly multicultural country. Then he swanned off to be peace envoy, that would be funny if it wasn't so absurd

[emmie]

Gordon Brown, none.

[ichkeria]

Now for the tricky one: name an achievement of the current government:
Ok: maintained Britain's AAA credit rating whatever that means.
Oh hang on...

[emmie]

but we weren't discussing that, but i can't think of one thing, except DC having some decent meetings and some concessions from the EU, can you honestly say that Ed M would have done the same...

[ichkeria]

No it's too early in any case to judge. These are tricky times I admit. I was amused at the original response to my response to the question: 'what did Labour achieve?' I tried to pick real 'things done' rather than statistics based on the claimed successes of policies. But to no avail :-)