If Gordon Brown has any sense he will ignore the nay sayers and stay on until he's obliged to go. First of all he's managed to engineer what could be the end of the recession and he should be in charge until the outcome of his polices are realised.
Second of all, you cannot change the countries leadership without a general election...again.
Thirdly the backstabbers and quitters (Blears etc) don't impress anyone, and no one should listen to their words of advice, hopefully their disloyalty has condemned them to years in the wilderness.
The local elections look bad - but these were the shires for the most part - the Middle England, Daily Mail/Express/Telegraph reading heartland.
The alternative to sticking around is letting the Tories in.... and that can't be countenanced...
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Aikon10
- 2009-06-06 @ 12:45:58
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punch
- 2009-06-08 @ 13:09:26
I quite agree that the government are indeed responsible for the state of the nation -but I would tend to forcefully disagree with your assessment of that state - what mess? The worldwide recession (which we're now slowly climbing out of - probably due to Gordon Brown's timely intervention) was probably a result of a severe problem in the US financial markets combined with the recklessness of bankers around the world. If you're talking about the fall in property prices? Well, that was the inevitable result of an overheated market and its difficult to see what the government could have done other than manipulate interest rates with the attendant risk of mortgage defaulting? Or is it something else? Terrorism? Knife crime, bird flu, swine fever...blah blah blah. Most of the foregoing exist as problems only in the overheated imagination of the editors of the Mail, Express etc. Which civil liberties have you had removed? The right to vote? the right to free speech? The right to free movement around the country/Europe/ the world? By all means e-mail ministers, but that isn't democracy -that's free speech and though a jolly good thing, lobbying your minister isn't going to make as much difference as placing your x mark in the appropriate box at the next election.
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They should all go and we should start afresh because they are all responsible for the mess we are in because they do not look to the future and plan for the future. They also take away people's civil liberties the right of choice the freedom of speech and ministers should receive e-mails and letters from the public and not your local MP because it is the ministers who make the policies to be put before parliament.