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Originally Posted by Gayle
I don't think they will Eric. I think a new person, from either party, would stand a good chance. For example, this area is mostly a Labour voting area. Greg has held his seat for 19 years. People may be a bit dissolusioned with the the Labour party and even with Greg so might not have voted for him if he'd have stood BUT a new Labour candidate can wipe the slate clean to some degree.
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Think I agree with Roy on this one. If JC came back to lead the Labour Party they will still lose .... if you have time, check out the '93 general election in Canada, in which Brian Mulroney's tories, who were about as popular with the voters as Browns Labour Party, lost 149 seats, and were left with only two MPs. I sure hope this doesn't happen in England. I think, and I always will, that in democracies such as ours .... and you might be surprised how similar our system is to yours at the federal level ... we need a left of centre party. If they don't form the govt., at least they can act as a brake on the right wing policies of tories.