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5 Days that changed Britain

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longfingernails · 29/07/2010 20:18

Anyone else waiting for this? I hate Nick Robinson's smugness, but for all that, am still going to be watching with fascination.

I think Politics is probably a more suitable forum than Telly Addicts!

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megcleary · 29/07/2010 21:12

Am glued!

draftywindows · 29/07/2010 21:16

I am recording it as DH is watching the Hotel Inspector

megcleary · 29/07/2010 21:25

I still don't like Ed Balls

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longfingernails · 29/07/2010 21:28

What the hell? Labour hadn't prepared at all??

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JackieNo · 29/07/2010 21:30

I was just saying, I'd like to see the same programme after the government has ended - see if they're all as nice about things then.

megcleary · 29/07/2010 21:35

Paddy Ashdown coming across well

claig · 29/07/2010 21:39

Labour didn't want it, it was all a done deal a long time before. Paddy is an actor, he'll deliver whatever lines he thinks are useful.

megcleary · 29/07/2010 21:43

Wonder why Gordon not doing the programme................

claig · 29/07/2010 21:44

Clegg caught out. His whole election spiel was just a charade, he had already decided he wanted immediate cuts.

claig · 29/07/2010 21:46

Gordon's not doing the programme, because as they are all saying "Gordon is Gordon"

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longfingernails · 29/07/2010 21:49

Hmmm... It seems Clegg misled Cameron about whether Labour offered some sort of voting system change without a referendum. That could come back to haunt the Lib Dems.

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claig · 29/07/2010 21:52

totally unbelievable that Gordon Brown decides on his own that he will go to the palace. He was led by spin doctors all along, they even taught him how to smile.

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longfingernails · 29/07/2010 21:54

I said at the time that Gordon Brown resigning early was an act of spite.

If he wanted to act in the national interest he could have waited a few hours for the shape of the next government to be clear.

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OmegaMummy · 29/07/2010 21:55

i still fill up at the leaving number 10 bit where Gordon says second best job....what dignity

claig · 29/07/2010 21:59

agree longfingernails, it was undignified and a breach of protocol. But I can't believe he just said "stuff it" and all the spin meisters like Camobell and Mandelson said "ok if that's what you want". I can't believe it was all his own decision. Ed Balls seems to think there was dignity in what he did. Was it not just GB's spite, but Labour's spite?

LadyBlaBlah · 29/07/2010 22:04

Mandelson was saying it at the time

I think they did the right thing - there was no way Clegg was serious about doing a deal with them, whoever the leader

We haven't talked about how proud we have been of Davey on his travels yet have we ?

claig · 29/07/2010 22:07

Agree Clegg was never serious about a deal with Labour, it was all theatre. But Brown should still have followed protocol and waited longer before chucking it in in a huff and disappearing from our screens for months. Yes Davey seems to have made blunders, a bit like Miliband did when he went to India.

claig · 29/07/2010 22:12

I still remember Paddy trying to appear serious the day before the deal, on Radio 4 saying that he thought there would be a deal with Labour as they were much closer to the LibDems. Mr. Integrity?

LadyBlaBlah · 29/07/2010 22:16

Yeah but probably looking at that smug smirking grin of Clegg's as he lapped up all the attention was probably too much to bear - to be fair I couldn't take it anymore either

I think Davey trumped Milliband - he has done Pakistan, Israel, Koh-I-Noor and India, and the Turkey thing all in one week

Reeeeespect

southeastastra · 29/07/2010 22:18

i don't understand politics, it seems very corrupt

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longfingernails · 29/07/2010 22:18

I don't think Cameron's foreign affairs statements are blunders. Indeed, it seems quite possible his statements are a deliberate deal hammered out with President Obama last week. Often Britain can say what America cannot.

Everyone knows that Pakistan exports terror. It isn't a surprise. Personally, if it comes to having to choose between India and Pakistan, I would pick India. For all its problems, it is much more stable, much richer, much more democratic, and much more civilised.

His comments on Gaza are fair enough as well. I am instinctively pro-Israel, and sympathetic to their terrorism problems and Hamas militancy - but I am not going to defend the indefensible. The sad thing about the Middle East is that everyone knows that there is a possible political solution with two states, but no-one knows how to get there.

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claig · 29/07/2010 22:19

you're right, he has made some slip ups.

LadyBlaBlah · 29/07/2010 22:19

TBH The whole thing stinks

They were ALL just after their bit of power

Its pathetic this was how our govt was formed

disclaimer: I still dislike Dave the most.

claig · 29/07/2010 22:24

longfingernails, I am sure America tells people what they think behind closed doors. I doubt they need messengers like Cameron. Also it seems that Cameron has tried to distance hinself from the statements he made earlier.

LadyBlaBlah · 29/07/2010 22:28

Also, Obama has integrity.
That makes a difference all round