Greece Bailout

[mobertol]

For lovers of all things French - watch this classic bit of Blackadder...some brilliant lines!

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by garinda

There's enough local anger to certainly significantly split the vote, enjoyed by the main parties.

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

a big UKIP vote would split the vote for the other parties and would hopefully make them realise that they've got to start taking OUR views into account.

You'd like to think so wouldn't you ? But as has been proven time & time again an undesirable element raises it's head (BNP specifically) & they're (the Politicos) all hand wringing & questions, how can this happen ? Why are people voting for these abhorent extemists ? Simply because the arris 'oles won't listen to the public. So they promise change & that they'll listen & as soon as it all cools down they're back to their self serving & egomaniacal ways, more empty rhetoric & us abandoned & left with frustration & fallout.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

You'd like to think so wouldn't you ? But as has been proven time & time again an undesirable element raises it's head (BNP specifically) & they're (the Politicos) all hand wringing & questions, how can this happen ? Why are people voting for these abhorent extemists ? Simply because the arris 'oles won't listen to the public. So they promise change & that they'll listen & as soon as it all cools down they're back to their self serving & egomaniacal ways, more empty rhetoric & us abandoned & left with frustration & fallout.

Just as the national psyche changed forever in May, 1979, I firmly believe the publics' opinions about politics changed irreversibly, after the expenses scandals of recent years.

There's very little respect for what many politicans now say, as opposed to what they actually do.

Consequently the great British public are no longer prepared to take any crap, off those who see themselves as our betters.

People (demand) power!

[Margaret Pilkington]

While we might not be prepared to take any crap. it is still very hard to make yourself heard......the politicians know that they are in for a number of years and hope we will have forgotten their transgressions when they ask us to vote again...also they know once they are in power they can do anything they like...it doesn't really matter what promises were made before the election.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

While we might not be prepared to take any crap. it is still very hard to make yourself heard......the politicians know that they are in for a number of years and hope we will have forgotten their transgressions when they ask us to vote again...also they know once they are in power they can do anything they like...it doesn't really matter what promises were made before the election.

It may be hard, but people are starting to demand that they're heard.

Personally speaking...hear my song.

A blanket over my cage ain't going to quieten me.

[jaysay]

Well at least Italy have got super Mario to put things right, think Greece are after Sonic the Hedgehog

[mobertol]

The Italians seem to have no qualms about putting someone in as Prime Minister who isn't even an elected member of Parliament. Can't quite get my head around the way they do things here even after all this time...

[Eric]

Just read in the "Guardian" that Angela Merkel considers that the cirisis in the Eurozone is the worst since WWll .......

Let's think about this one ... do the krauts think that the rest of the world has finally forgotten what happened between 1939 and 1945, and who caused it? Bloody Germans ....

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by mobertol

The Italians seem to have no qualms about putting someone in as Prime Minister who isn't even an elected member of Parliament. Can't quite get my head around the way they do things here even after all this time...

Well, when Tony Blair left office Gordon Brown stepped into the breech....he was unelected and proved to be unelectable when the time came for the people to have their say.

[Margaret Pilkington]

And when Margaret Thatcher resigned, John Major took over the reins.....again unelected.
I can't quite remember whether he ever won an election or whether he suffered the same fate as Gordon Brown.
Post script...he did in fact win the 1992 general election.....I have just checked to see that I wasn't misleading anyone. He was still eminently forgettable...unless your name is Edwina Currie.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

And when Margaret Thatcher resigned, John Major took over the reins.....again unelected.
I can't quite remember whether he ever won an election or whether he suffered the same fate as Gordon Brown.
Post script...he did in fact win the 1992 general election.....I have just checked to see that I wasn't misleading anyone. He was still eminently forgettable...unless your name is Edwina Currie.

Wells there is one thing Margaret we won't forget good old Tony or Gordon in a hurry will we

[Margaret Pilkington]

Nope!

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

And when Margaret Thatcher resigned, John Major took over the reins.....again unelected.
I can't quite remember whether he ever won an election or whether he suffered the same fate as Gordon Brown.
Post script...he did in fact win the 1992 general election.....I have just checked to see that I wasn't misleading anyone. He was still eminently forgettable...unless your name is Edwina Currie.

And all the way back to Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

[andrewb]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Well, when Tony Blair left office Gordon Brown stepped into the breech....he was unelected and proved to be unelectable when the time came for the people to have their say.

Brown was at least elected as a Member of Parliament. The Italians have just appointed some bloke who's never been elected.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Eric

And all the way back to Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

Hume was that