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PM set to announce that there will be no early election.

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LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2007 16:14

I always thought he'd be mad to risk losing the premiership so soon after waiting 10 years to get it.

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LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2007 17:33

Michael Portillo is talking about 'flushing out election policies' on BBC News 24 atm, so you're in good company wheresmysuntan.

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SueBarooeeooeeooooo · 06/10/2007 17:45

I think my instinctive response to that is...

bok bok bok b-kooook.

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LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2007 17:48
Grin
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policywonk · 06/10/2007 18:14

eh, Sue? Have you gone analogue on us again?

SueBarooeeooeeooooo · 06/10/2007 18:36

'tis a chicken sound. I'm callin' him yellow.

policywonk · 06/10/2007 19:36

Aaah. My phonetic attempt at a chicken would be something like 'qwar qwar qwar qwaaaaarq', I think. But then I'm not a country girl.

Where does David Cameron stand on this, I wonder?

screamsprout · 06/10/2007 22:01

Always amusing to watch David Cameron trying to look like a serious politician. Stop it Dave, you're killing me.

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LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2007 22:05

Are there any David Cameron fans here? He's a lot better than his predecessors (Michael 'Dracula' Howard, Iain 'the quiet (boring) man' Duncan Smith).

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screamsprout · 06/10/2007 22:05

That's not actually saying that much though, is it?!

screamsprout · 06/10/2007 22:06

David Cameron may be popular but the Tories are not. When he gets a lot of coverage, they go up in the polls but when people consider the horror that is the Tories, en masse, they drop again.

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LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2007 22:07

He seems to think he's been cheated of his chance to strip Gordon Brown of his premiership. In your dreams Dave.

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chisigirl · 06/10/2007 22:10

Brown, what a coward.

I know it's the UK system but I can't STAND that he is effectively an unelected PM. IMO, he should call an election asap.

aintnomountainhighenough · 06/10/2007 22:31

This is the only way he can guarantee any time in power. When it all comes crashing down over the next 12-18 months there is no way he will be elected, imo of course!

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LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2007 22:35

I reckon 2009 at the earliest for the next election. All will depend on how he runs the country over the next (less than) two years. I do think he'll do a good job.

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Tinker · 06/10/2007 22:35

But you don't elect a PM you elecet a party.

He was in a no-win situation anyway. If he called an election he would be accused of doing it after being taunted by "Dave", if he didn't call one, he be accused of being scared.

Will be good to see the tories attempt to maintain conference week momentum. AS in amusing, not good. Remember Dave was teh "brains" behind Michael Howard's election campaign - remember how nasty that was? Either that's teh real him or he's as showman as TB. Hmm, let's think...

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LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2007 22:36

Definitely a showman. He's a bit too slick for my liking. GB is more solid.

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UnquietDad · 06/10/2007 22:36

Cameron looked cross in the interview outside his home, didn't he?! Although he almost cracked a smile at that Boris remark. One almost thinks he maybe was up for an election rather than wanting to call Broon's bluff to get it called off...

tiredemma · 06/10/2007 22:37

Good. I would like to see what GB can do in the next couple of years.

Dave cameron is a joke.

chisigirl · 06/10/2007 22:41

Granted, Tinker, we in the UK do elect a party, rather than a PM. But presumably part of the decision in deciding which party to vote for (in my case at least) is who the leader is and what policies he/she has adopted. It seems particularly dishonest, given that TB kept on saying he was goint to stand for 3 'full terms'.

It just amazes me that you can vote for a party with a particular leader and next thing you, someone else is in charge. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge Blairophile or anything but it does irk me. Bring on electoral reform!

Tinker · 06/10/2007 22:42

Quite. Cameron actually has to follow through now with some consistency rather than flailing around trying to see what sticks.

Tinker · 06/10/2007 22:43

I do like teh idea of fixed term elections. But I certianly didn't vote for TB, I voted Labour in the knowledge that TB wouldn't be PM for much longer

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LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2007 22:45

Didn't TB always say he woudn't serve a full third term?

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chisigirl · 06/10/2007 22:49

i'm curious, do you think you would be as content if, by some fluke, some other leader had been elected whose policies/approach you didn't like?

personally, i don't think any party in any country should be in power for more than two consecutive terms. just breeds complacency i think.

eek, past my bedtime. 'night.

chisigirl · 06/10/2007 22:51

re the infamous third term, I found this. politics.guardian.co.uk/labour2004/story/0,,1317374,00.html

Tinker · 06/10/2007 22:52

No, don't agree on limiting terms on parties. The idea of a compulsory tory term would make me genuinely fearful.

I always thought TB said he wouldn't serve a full term as well.