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Pondering, and while slightly more optimistic than we once were, still really quite unhappy Lefty thread

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Hassled · 08/05/2010 17:20

Where had we got to? We'd agreed that we all love Cameron, right?

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TDiddy · 10/05/2010 18:10

LeninGrad - how come I could swap braised peas recipees mid thread but can't swap investment tips?

curlyredhead · 10/05/2010 18:09

Can you train up BIWI? Get on the website asap, before all the seats sell out! Hope that you get good news for your DH, we know a lot of people at head office who are the other 600 being made redundant

Interesting times... I think it is very statesmanlike of GBrown - was going to email and tell him so, but can't find an address on a quick google. Anyone know?

TDiddy · 10/05/2010 18:08

Guys- even if we end up with ConLib coalition, Clegg would be mad not to play Labour off against the Tories. Doing it in public applies more pressure to the Tories.....for the Tories it must be like seeing your ministerial car drive off without you.

justaboutacompletedfamily · 10/05/2010 18:07

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BecauseIAgreeWithGordon · 10/05/2010 18:06

I don't know what to think any more!

TDiddy · 10/05/2010 18:06

1)If we get ConLab- then Labour renews itself and has good chance at next election.

2)If we get LibLab then it means that they MUST deliver PR, otherwise they will be punished and blamed for everything at next election and we will get 3 straight Tory terms

Note that Clegg is playing a very tricky hand very very well in deed. he is looking like a statesman, keeping his side on board and playing Lab and Cons off.

MmeLindt · 10/05/2010 18:05

I posted on the "not another unelected pm" thread.

Probably not a good idea.

TDiddy
The whole thing with the markets annoys me. On the one side the traders have been betting on the £ falling and are making money out of it, on the other side they are wailing about it.

LeninGrad · 10/05/2010 18:05

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Prolesworth · 10/05/2010 18:03

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SpringHeeledJack · 10/05/2010 18:01

I agree with Ken

[always agrees with Ken emoticon]

Quattrocento · 10/05/2010 18:00

Really sorry to hear that BIWI

policywonk · 10/05/2010 17:59

That sounds hopeful BIWI: fingers crossed.

TD - I have no idea what I think! Can see how it could all go wrong. But can equally see how LibCon could all go wrong (and - possibly unusually on this thread - I'm as interested in the LibDems' good fortune as I am in the Labour party's).

TDiddy · 10/05/2010 17:59

Done

TDiddy · 10/05/2010 17:58

I will get slated for saying this but I can see the city types fretting about markets going turbulent. But they will then go and trade that volatility and make money from it.

Might sell a bit of FTSE myself.

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Hassled · 10/05/2010 17:57

BIWI - what a bloody nightmare for you. We came dangerously close in DH's Aviva years - never nice even if you're OK because then you see your friends leave around you. I think it calls for wine regardless of the day of the week.

I do see the concerns re this going tits up, but we have to keep the faith. Labour just have to make damn sure this looks like a straightforward, dignified leadership election - no shenanigans. I'm so impressed with Gordon - what a man.

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TDiddy · 10/05/2010 17:55

policywonk- I think heads Labour can win, tails labour can win. If there was an election winner then it was possibly labour

BecauseIAgreeWithGordon · 10/05/2010 17:55

Thanks all. DH says all is OK for him, although he's in the insurance bit, his job is categorised as being in a different part of the bank. This is the second time in not so many months that redundancy has loomed - last time we went through the whole consultantion process, so I'm really hoping it won't come to that, and that DH is right.

Nymphadora · 10/05/2010 17:55

Oh & my worst time for news Monday 5pm

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TDiddy · 10/05/2010 17:53

Brown was the engine of much of new Labour's substance. Press painted him as power grabber forgetting that he has put party before ambition before when he didn't run against Blair.

Nymphadora · 10/05/2010 17:51

Interesting but I love Hammy getting shafted!

Happy GB stays for a bit but hoping liblab doesn't take too much flak

policywonk · 10/05/2010 17:50

Even if you don't think LibLab is a good idea, you've got to take some pleasure in the bewildered, foot-stamping fury of this here Tory (wtf is he?)

NANNY!

Nymphadora · 10/05/2010 17:49

Interesting but I love Hammy getting shafted!

Happy GB stays for a bit but hoping liblab doesn't take too much flak

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