Ming?
Yeah, I thought this was going to be a Flash Gordon thread too. But you got the wrong Ming for the new series.
Anyhoo, does this news spell victory for the Tories soon? UK internal politics truly mystify me, so lay it out for us outsiders.
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Yeah, I thought this was going to be a Flash Gordon thread too. But you got the wrong Ming for the new series.
Anyhoo, does this news spell victory for the Tories soon? UK internal politics truly mystify me, so lay it out for us outsiders.
nonconformist
Miserable
Not if we've got anything to do with it.
Lambert Simnel
One across
If anything, it makes it less likely. The LibDems have broadly been suffering at the polls, and their support has tended to run to the Tories. Ming has (rightly or wrongly) been a part of the problem. A new leader offers the possibility of a rise in the LibDems fortunes, and while that could well pull support from Labour as well as from the Conservatives, the ones most likely to return are those who have recently stopped indicating they would vote for the LibDems - and thus a new LibDem leader is more likely to hurt the Tories.
Anyway (anyhoo ?), there isn't likely to be an election now until 2009, or even 2010, so we shouldn't get too worked up with election fever on this side of the Atlantic just yet....
Mise
isle of lucy
Well, elections are won and lost on the economy, and it didn't look like, under Ming, the LibDems had a great deal of direction when it came to the economy. I'm hoping that whoever gets the job will give some clarity to where exactly the LibDems stand on the economy. They have in recent years been somewhat ambiguous in that respect, walking a tightrope between what seems to me are two competing "Liberal" agendas.
ComradeDavo
Formerly God
They've made their 'tax the richest 10% and those that pollute more and cut taxes for the poor' economic agenda pretty clear now. An agenda that the old Labour party would have loved......
"Anyway" is boring. "Anyhoo" is folksy, friendly, and more charismatic.
Anyhoo, thanks for the explanation!!
Lambert Simnel
One across
Yeah, and the old Labour party repeatedly lost elections with just those sort of ill-thought out, hardly costed at all type of proposals. Anyway, I'm maybe getting off the point here...
Lambert Simnel
One across
Ahh, right. Thanks! I'll do my best to remember that "VRWCAgent is the folksy, friendly, and more charismatic one" - you just need to forgive me the odd slip from time to time
More seriously, is this mainstream mid-West speak ? I can't say I've heard it any time I've been out there (but then again, perhaps they didn't want to appear folksy).
I wouldn't say "raised eyebrow" so much as probably the same look I give people when they pronounce "creek" as "crick" and so forth. The "wow, hick boy speaks weird" look.
...Crick?
The word seems to suggest how its to be pronounced O_o
Chairman Meow
Class IV
But "crick" is the right way to pronounce "creek"...I wouldn't say "raised eyebrow" so much as probably the same look I give people when they pronounce "creek" as "crick" and so forth. The "wow, hick boy speaks weird" look.
Mise
isle of lucy
Yeah, Lab and Cons have both ripped off LibDem green taxes in one way or another. But I was thinking more about the Orange Book, for example. Both Huhne and Clegg contributed -- I wonder what of it they'll actually implement.
Incidentally, they're both more right wing than their predecessor, one socially the other fiscally. I guess they're trying to grab Tory votes this time round, since the Tories are grabbing Labour votes.
brennan
Argumentative Brit
Yeah, but... Huhne and Clegg?!
Confess Mise: you want us to be a two party 'democracy' don't you?
Confess Mise: you want us to be a two party 'democracy' don't you?
Catharsis
catch u on the flip scythe
Anyone see Chris Huhne's 'answer the readers' questions' bit in the Independent? Let's play 'Count the Football Analogies'!
I'll vote for anyone who uses the phrase 'damn fool' in a newspaper interview during an important leadership campaign.
I'll vote for anyone who uses the phrase 'damn fool' in a newspaper interview during an important leadership campaign.
Mise
isle of lucy
If one of them's Huhne and the other's Clegg then maybe...
It'll be like that Futurama episode, with John Jackson and Jack Johnson.
