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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] We've only just had an election so we won't have to worry for another four years unless Blair (or his successor) screws the pooch so comprehensively a Vote of Confidence is called for and lost. Blair IS going to try to stay as long as he can, while endeavouring to ensure that things are screwed up sufficiently to make life very difficult for his successor as Leader of the Labour Party, especially if that person is Gordon Brown. A lot of the good things have come of the past nine years were Brown's ideas, you see, and what Blair fears more than anything is that Brown as PM goes on to achieve far greater things, leaving Tone as a mere footnote in history. Not, of course, that Brown has his hands clean. He did just as much as Blair to change their policy as stated at the time of their election in May 1997, to make the UK to the leading nation of Europe, to one which has led us to where we are now, a satrapy of the US. In fact, in some ways, Brown has done more to achieve this calamitous turnabout, by being so down on EMU (European Monetary Union) and by refusing to become the figurehead for Labour rebels on many issues, not least of which were the invasion of Iraq and various measures supposedly to counter the "War" on "Terror." (I await posterity's verdict on which of his many lost opportunities was his one actual big chance which he blew) The Conservative Party remain a shambles. After their 18 years in power they'd become so assured that they were the natural party of government and the people's choice that they never bothered to actually ask anyone if they agreed (no-one, is the answer). Much of their grudging stake in the centre ground has long been usurped by New Labour. Now they've chosen as their head an old Etonian twit who rides a bicycle to work but whose cabal of supporters (the "Notting Hill" set, and I'm sure there's a Hugh Grant/Julia Roberts joke in their somewhere) make US neocons seem like a bunch of old hippies. Ultimately they'll get elected just because they're not Labour, but hopefully not for about nine-odd years. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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