Comments on: 22 point Tory lead from ComRes

By: John B Dick

John B Dick — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:33:04 +0000

“Prof Anthony King wrote in the Daily Telegraph that he thinks Gordon Brown has almost zero chance of re-election. Do we agree?”

I think you could fairly say that John Curtice does.

What does Gordon Brown think though?

People dislike Alex Salmond becaues he looks smug. Have you noticed any recent change in the way Gordon Brown looks? I think that both of them agree with you too.

By: John B Dick

John B Dick — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:20:27 +0000

Mike:

“for Scotland 3 party politics”

No. With PR it will be at least 6 as before + independents, with many possible combinations of coalition and periods of minority government as now.

After independence, even a rebranded Conservative party can bid for minor party coalition position in contention with LibDem and even Labour, because Labour would not be NewLabour, but Real Labour as in Real Ale.

Even if the SNP fragmented and there was only the Socialists instead of NewLabour the Greens would make it up to 4.

The Greens are worth watching. They were cheated in 2007.

By: thomas

thomas — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:36:16 +0000

An incompetent government is a government which loses power – so in the end they are all incompetent.

The best measures of a regime is the dignity with which it conducts its affairs and its ability to raise the dignity of those subjected to it.

Oddly, the manner of his leaving will become Tony Blair more than anything he did during his time at the top, but that says as much about the general level of incompetence in parliament as it does about him.

By: stuart gregory

stuart gregory — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:57:59 +0000

i´ve said it my self alot that any govenment blue red or gold for that matter will be good for one or two terms then bad afterwards, the only difference with this govenment is it inherited a good set of figures, falling inflation, falling unemployment, strong growth, falling national debt. any incoming govenment will be left with labours normal mess when they leave office, and for any party to say we will cut tax is stupied at this time as we are now in so much debt that tax may have to go up for at least a year or two to pay off the mess gordon brown has put this country in by browing to much at this time

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:44:54 +0000

I’d be tempted to say the periods of incompetent government are the norm. Usually not when a party is newly elected,
with a new mandate, new leader, perhaps after being out of power for a while. Otherwise downhill all the way.