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Heres what a hung Parliament will do

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lincstash · 18/04/2010 09:42

WE have been there before, with both Wilson and Heath.

No one can rule with a minority government. Its an abortion. Nothing radical, nothing decisive can get passed into law. Nothing gets decided, no real advancement can be made, everything is fudge and a compromise.

IF we get a hung parliament, Labour will retain power (as the incumbent governments right to), completely unable to do anything decisive about the economy, and eventually, after being defeated in multiple votes government will collapse with a year, and another election will ensue. You only need a major bill such as the Finance Bill to get destroyed by the opposition, and thats thats.

Meanwhile, the militant left wing unions (UNITE and GMB) will set about ejecting Labours Blairites and Brownites from the party , (as they have promised they can and will), and whilst labour struggles along in the minority in westminster, civil war will rip the party apart as the unions seize control and force the party back to socialist far left. Policy making and decision making will cease within the government

Meanwhile, the worlds financial markets will see the political chaos, pull the plug on our credit rating and that will be it, game set an match. The economy will collapse, and the World Bank will be forced to step in, as it did with the Wilson Government. We will then be a prime target for the EU vultures to take further control of us.

THis is not speculation, this is based on previous times in our history when we have been in this position. We are the 5th largest economy because we always have had majority governments. If you want examples of what happens to countries with minority rules, look at places like Italy, Argentina, Brazil. 3rd rate counties because they cant be ruled decisively.

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foreverastudent · 20/04/2010 15:10

I haven't read the whole thread but

"No one can rule with a minority government"

Well, Scotland has been run by a minority govt for the past 3 years...just as effectively as it was before.

Alouiseg · 20/04/2010 15:11

She does not need sectioning!

She has an opinion and she is entitled to that opinion as much as any of us are. There is a horrible undertone on mn of "be liberal or be wrong".

Clarissimo · 20/04/2010 15:39

Really Alou?

TBH I don't think she needs sectioning

A little acceptance of other people's ability to make decisions for themselves might be nice though

Despite strongly held covictions I don't go round telling people who to vote for and I don't like it when aimed at me; disrespectful and patronising

DroosieCat · 20/04/2010 15:41

...but there are any number of independent (or not) websites also saying a hung parliament won't be the disaster some are saying.

Clarissimo · 20/04/2010 15:43

And fair's fair DP that didn't quite represent that thread did it? I suggest anyone who thinks DP has been randomly outed as having MH issues on a thread reads the frankie boyle thread

AFAIK one eoprson (was when I went on) said you ahd NPD.And it asn't just for laughing at FB, it was a thread full of parents of disabled kids unhappy at some jpokes about kids with downs syndrome that he amde

Dp, full story not 1/3 please

daftpunk · 20/04/2010 16:01

Clarissimo; I have not got MH issues just because I laugh at FB....(or jokes about disability in general)

..This is what has become of us...this is 13 yrs of Labour...you are brainwashed fgs..

...It's not wrong to laugh at a comedian....

...It's not wrong to think homosexuality isn't normal..

I had to report 4 people on that thread, 1 of them kept linking me pictures of dolls and rabbits..(wtf??) and you think I'm the one who's mental....most of their posts have been deleted they were so hateful...

I don't really know what's happening around here, but there are quite a few people who need to get a grip, it's a bit worrying actually...I will be taking my picture off my profile....that's how concerned I am that some people on MN are not in a good place mentally.

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 20/04/2010 16:11

Must confess, I'm completely baffled how you're going to make sure no-one ever tells your kids it's Ok to be gay.

Are you going to stop them from ever listening to rock music or reading Kerrang! for example?

Fliight · 20/04/2010 16:13

Oh dear I've looked at it and, well, you look different to how I imagined.

Clarissimo · 20/04/2010 16:18

fuck off DP, I am not bnrainwashed and I never said you ahd MH issues

stop trying to paint it on another thread as if I said you did

you don't even know the voting proclivities of the eprson who did say that. It's unrealated

Clarissimo · 20/04/2010 16:22

Dp I passed your message about brainwashing on the lady who actually said it with a link to the thread

Seemed only fair

daftpunk · 20/04/2010 16:22

Clarissimo.....I'm really sorry if I misunderstood you...Please take this the right way, but sometimes I have real trouble understanding your posts...

I haven't mentioned you on another thread...what are you talking about..?

Fliight · 20/04/2010 16:27

Nice one, DP. Clarissimo I'm not sure this is worth our time.

Clarissimo · 20/04/2010 16:29

I emant stop trying to paint it on here as if I said it elsewhere, i give you that one- I phrased it appallingly

You're on teh totehr thread so you know I never said that about NPD. In fact een with MH Nursing experience it's never occurred to me: I just think you combine narrow mindedness with a love of getting attention to be honest

Fliight · 20/04/2010 16:31

I just think she gets a lot out of being manipulative, but that's been evident from the start. Trying to have a conco without that getting in the way is really difficult so I hereby quit.

Fliight · 20/04/2010 16:32

convo, sorry ds2's head in the way

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 20/04/2010 16:34

DP - You said to Clarissimo:

"Clarissimo; I have not got MH issues just because I laugh at FB....(or jokes about disability in general)

..This is what has become of us...this is 13 yrs of Labour...you are brainwashed fgs.."

She said: I never said you have MH issues, I will pass your comment about 'brainwashing' onto the MNer who did.

HTH.

Now do you fancy answering my question?
"How are you going to make sure no-one ever tells your kids it's Ok to be gay?

Are you going to stop them from ever listening to rock music or reading Kerrang! for example?"

daftpunk · 20/04/2010 16:44

Clarissimo; I didn't say it was you who said I had MH issues...I was just telling you that I haven't...

This is getting silly now....this thread is about politics....get back to talking about that.

Clarissimo · 20/04/2010 16:47

I think Heathen is trying to ask you a question DP

noddyholder · 20/04/2010 16:53

If Dp ever answers a question seriously explaining her views backed with facts/reasonable argument I will eat my hat

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Fliight · 20/04/2010 17:02

Barnaby, advertising however great the product is out of place on a conversational thread.

You need to go to non member requests and pay the fee, sadly. Look under the talk homepage.

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 20/04/2010 17:13

noddyholder i have asked her it several times when we have 'met'. She hasn't answered yet, but y'know, neither of us are going away so maybe one day...

noddyholder · 20/04/2010 18:26

Ah heathen it will never happen you can't give an answer if you don't have one.I don't think DP actually thinks that far ahead in the argument she doesn't seem to realise that with strong views people will want to ask you why? and you need to know!

Alouiseg · 20/04/2010 18:42

How many people on here do back up their opinions with proof as "fact"?

DP has some reasonably controversial (for mn) views but in no capacity does that make her wrong. She is consistent and i'm certain informed. Yet because she has opposing views to a lot of you she is derided.

daftpunk · 20/04/2010 18:43

TheHeathernofSuburbia

If I answer you I will get accused of hijacking this thread for my own political aims, I will also get accused of being an attention seeking loser with a narcissist personality....If I don't answer you I will be accused of being an ignorant bigot who can't back anything up...

I can't win...

(I have just seen a thread started by a UKIP invader....off to investigate....)

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