Cameron the new prime minister

[Eater Sundae 12]

the numbers didn't add up, it needed the support of the minor parties and they didn't seem to want to commit. i think if the numbers added up then they would have gone for labour.

 

a minority government wouldn't have lasted beyond a few weeks and wouldn't have been able to do anything except watch the markets collapse.

 

a coalition will make it hard for one party to cut and run if things get too tough, so in a way its not surprising that they have gone for it

 

I'm glad they've gone for a formal coalition and not just an informal agreement. It might commit them for a longer term. Nobody will want to be seen to be pulling out, particularly while the economy is in such a bad state.

[Ivor&Mel 10]

Will NEW Labour still exist? Maybe the old dinosaurs will come out of the woodwork with a call to return to the party's "roots".

 

"New Labour" is dead. And there are few "dinosaurs" left in the party (certainly far fewer than in the Tory party). This is a great opportunity for the Labour party to resurrect itself while the Tories and Lib Dems grapple with the country's and their own problems, internal and co-relational. Unfortunately, I don't see any potential leaders within the Labour party who are capable of taking it by the scruff of the neck and giving it a good slap in the face. No matter what you think of Blair and Brown, they were politicians with force and gravitas, who could effect change within their party. The likes of Milliband, Johnson, Balls are pale shadows, and will have no power to control and unify the party, and will have little appeal to the country at large.

 

The voters have decreed that we must live in interesting times...

[Tony 10]

You don't have to be nostradamus to realise the above. Don't forget the wholesale privatisation of the nhs, schools and whatever else they can think off. more teaching assistants less teachers, more special constables less police officers, laws to make us work until we are 70. More wars , more crime, more cameras/surveillance , more poverty, more trials without jury, more terrorist laws, more dumbing down.

 

A nice summary of 13 years of Labour.

[hitch_1980 10]

Clegg Is deputy

Liam fox is Defence

4 posts for lib dems

New Budget in 50 days

Cons give into lib dems 10,000 tax free

No National insurance rise

No Mansion Tax which lib dems wanted

Tax free for millionaires thingy.....is rejected

Trident to be reviewed......but no like for like replacement

Plans by lib dems to join euro scrapped

5 year fixed term goverments agreed

[Br8inend 10]

Is there anyway we can set something up on this forum where we tick which of those policies get pushed through.....if they do .....which is doubt lol

 

All the policies will lead to the above but it won't be advertised in neon lights , it will be spun as a necessary evil. Wake up

[hitch_1980 10]

All the policies will lead to the above but it won't be advertised in neon lights , it will be spun as a necessary evil. Wake up

 

lol.....so we wont know....but you say it will happen......

[Eater Sundae 12]

Finally.......I have no Idea whats going to happen now, but after this election and seeing how a fair proportion of sheffield hate the cons.....i want them to do well.....then we will see if sheffield has anything to complain about, ....like it seems to always do.

 

I'm in my late 50s and have always voted since I've been old enough. I've never voted conservative, and never even come close to voting for them. But I'm not one of those rabid anti conservatives who blames everything on Maggie.

 

I'm pleased with the way things are turning out. I wish the Con/Lib-Dem coalition succeeds.

[Zaytsev 10]

You don't have to be nostradamus to realise the above. Don't forget the wholesale privatisation of the nhs, schools and whatever else they can think off. more teaching assistants less teachers, more special constables less police officers, laws to make us work until we are 70. More wars , more crime, more cameras/surveillance , more poverty, more trials without jury, more terrorist laws, more dumbing down.

 

Thanks for the run down on Blair and Browns achievements over the last 13 years. Now what about Cameron.

[Br8inend 10]

A nice summary of 13 years of Labour.

 

Yep who just continued tory policies, pretty pointless voting isn't it? Especialy now Cleggy has finally come out.

[Eater Sundae 12]

Ed Balls made it clear that the decision was taken out of Labour's hands - it was the LibDems who walked away. Although I agree, there was increasing pressure within Labour not to touch a deal with a barge pole.

 

Each side is sure to blame the other when negotiations fail.

[sheffield_uk 10]

give it a month and everybody will want a new one because this one is no

different...

[hitch_1980 10]

I'm in my late 50s and have always voted since I've been old enough. I've never voted conservative, and never even come close to voting for them. But I'm not one of those rabid anti conservatives who blames everything on Maggie.

 

I'm pleased with the way things are turning out. I wish the Con/Lib-Dem coalition succeeds.

 

I wish it every success too....i have voted labour in the past, but wasnt happy with how they were performing. I think we need to hope this works, and hope they sort this countrys finances out. I just sometimes find that sheffield is too negative in many aspects and bring up memories that should really be laid to rest, or it will never go forward.