This is my first post on this forum (HOORAH!). Anyway...

 

With the (great!) news of the US elections kicking off in the US, a milestone in humanitarin progress has happened and it's got me thinking about the general election next year in the UK. Unfortunately, the thought turns my stomach...

 

Will David Cameron get in next year? Will peoples desperation for a new party be too strong for Labour to stay at 10 Downing Street?

 

Thoughts and opinions... :D

Brown can hold out till April 2010 if he wants to and I guess he probably will

 

But unless he is caught shagging a shetland pony in a field or something Cameron is 100% sure to be the next PM

But unless he is caught shagging a shetland pony in a field or something Cameron is 100% sure to be the next PM

I don't know about THAT... I think Cameron is only about 7 points ahead now, which if replicated in an election would likely produce a hung parliament. I would still make him the favourite, mainly because it's only commonsense that when a recession hits, the people turn against the government, but it's nowhere near as certain as it looked a couple of months ago.

I don't know about THAT... I think Cameron is only about 7 points ahead now, which if replicated in an election would likely produce a hung parliament. I would still make him the favourite, mainly because it's only commonsense that when a recession hits, the people turn against the government, but it's nowhere near as certain as it looked a couple of months ago.

 

There has been a bit of a post conference bounce for Brown but the economy will get worse before it gets better and it is unlikely to improve to any significant amount between now and when the next poll legally has to take place. When the recession really bites people will blame Brown tbh even if it is not really his fault

 

Whenever it is, I'll be voting for the party & leader that is furthest away from the divisive and down right awful policies of Margaret "There's no such thing as Socialism" Thatcher that we are all paying for today thanks to her party flogging off the national utilities for a knock down price so that we can be ripped off with a shoddy service whilst paying well over the odds today to foreign owners.

 

At the moment my vote is heading towards the Conservatives.

 

David Cameron saying his political hero is Sir Robert Peel is far better than Gordon Brown's endorsement of Margaret Thatcher inviting her to 10 Downing Street, something Tony Blair was clever enough to avoid doing.

 

Besides anyone who has Scott Of The Antarctic as their childhood hero should be a huge warning sign to anyone regarding leadership skills. Whilst Brown should not get away for his responsiblity regarding his "prudent" running of the economy. His comment about "the years of cycles of boom and bust are over" is about as crassly stupid as McCann's statement regarding the US Economy the day Lehmann's Bank went bankrupt.

I dont particulary like Gordon but i would perfer him to any conservative, especially David Cameron.

 

Not that my say matters as im not 18 though :(

But unless he is caught shagging a shetland pony in a field or something Cameron is 100% sure to be the next PM

 

...coming from the bloke who famously stated 'obama will never get elected president', ill regard that statement as equaly as wrong!

 

polls schmoles, they mean nothing, remember the general election of 92? :lol:

ANYONE but David Cameron please :( Brown is the best option unfortnately for now so it looks like I'll be voting for the same as last time. The public want to get rid of the current party but all they'd be doing is just electing the same thing but only a lot worse with the Tories right now. -_-

If only the Lib Dems would give the leadership to Vince Cable there would be a candidate worth voting for!

...coming from the bloke who famously stated 'obama will never get elected president', ill regard that statement as equaly as wrong!

 

polls schmoles, they mean nothing, remember the general election of 92? :lol:

 

I think that the election of Obama will really boost Cameron

 

Brown is and looks like an old dinosaur, there is a new breed of younger charismatic politicians like Obama, Johnson, Cameron, Sarkozy now and like Obama, Johnson and Sarkozy Cameron will appeal to and energise the generation of young voters

 

Cameron is a bit too liberal for me I would have preferred someone like David Davis or Liam Fox to have won the Tory leadership but I think Obama like Cameron will appeal to younger voters and win the election

 

Cameron is the British Obama except obviously different skin colour

Edited November 6, 200816 yr by B.A Baracus

Im not a fan of Brown, but id much prefer to have him in office than Cameron.

I think that the election of Obama will really boost Cameron

Perhaps. But Downing Street are hoping that Brown becomes a kind of mentor figure to Obama. If that does happen, Obama's immense popularity here could boost Brown (though of course, Obama might not be so popular by our next election).

Cameron is the British Obama except obviously different skin colour

 

You think so? Cameron is unsincere and vile. Did anyone hear his desert island discs?

 

He's an idiot!

 

Granted, the next election will be rather like choosing which dog turd you would like to stick your foot in, but it's a democratic right and every eligible UK citizen should vote!

Brown can hold out till April 2010 if he wants to and I guess he probably will

 

But unless he is caught shagging a shetland pony in a field or something Cameron is 100% sure to be the next PM

 

..... and to highlight the publics fickleness and the inaccuracy of the polls.... labour hang on to glenrothes , a seat they were expected to lose..

 

so no, the very same thing WILL happen if there was an election tomorrow.. brown would return (albeit with a reduced majority). cameron is a boy full of hot air and ideologies that in the real world are unsustainable.

not guaranteed.

 

The torries have quite litteraly no seats in Scotland, and thanks to Thatcher are unlikely to make serious inroads ever again. This is not the same picture in England and Wales so you can't say that Brown would return tomorrow based off an By-Election where only Labour or the SNP had a chance of winning.

 

Just because labour managed to hang on (Thier odds of winning were equal to the SNP by the end ;) *Source:Kingdom FM*) doesn't mean that the result is likely to be replicated across the country. Different consituencies have different issues and different parties meet those issues better than others.

...coming from the bloke who famously stated 'obama will never get elected president', ill regard that statement as equaly as wrong!

 

:lol: :lol:

 

Same here mate... Love his back-peddling in the later post positively GUSHING "There is a new breed of younger, charismatic politicians...", whereas before he criticising these very same "younger, charismatic" politicians for their lack of experience.... :P

 

I'd never even countenance voting Tory though, and am quite shocked that Richard is contemplating voting for Cameron... It matters not to me, if Cameron is "better" than Thatch, or that I may agree with him on one or two issues, he's still a fukkin' TORY, and this is reason enough for me not to vote for him.... :P :P

 

Cameron is the British Obama except obviously different skin colour

 

He's Tony Blair with a different coloured tie on and he's using the exact same 'young' campaign that Blair used in 1997. Labour would do themselves a favour to announce Brown will stand down at the end of this 'term' and let David Milliband fight the election on the 'I'm young too' ticket.

 

There's too little to call between the two parties policy-wise just now anyway. What I'd like to see in a candidate is one who will promote the traditions of either party instead of coming across as the middle of the road in order to try to please everyone.

Labour would do themselves a favour to announce Brown will stand down at the end of this 'term' and let David Milliband fight the election on the 'I'm young too' ticket.

 

Milliband..??? You're kidding, right... He's a two-faced little sh!tehawk, probably even more objectionable than Broon or B-liar..... :lol:

 

Ah, I didn't say I supported it, just that they'd be fighting on an equal footing then. A two-faced little $h!tehawk versus a two-faced little $h!tehawk vs Nick Clegg ;)

Cameron is the British Obama except obviously different skin colour

 

The man who cycles through red lights, and has a car following behind him :lol:

 

I ain't no Brown fan either, but I'd rather have him in power than Cameron. I was a Lib Dem person until they stabbed Kennedy everywhere and kicked him out of the way.