And may the door hit you on the arse on the way out!
Posted on 05/10/2010 5:33:50 PM PDT by BP2
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LONDON — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a dramatic bid to keep his beleaguered Labour Party in power after it was punished in elections last week, announcing Monday he will resign by September at the latest even if the Liberal Democrats — being wooed by the Conservatives — decide to join his party in government. The political theater, played out in front of the iconic black door of No. 10 Downing Street, comes as David Cameron's Conservatives — which won the most seats in Parliament but fell short of a majority — struggled in their attempts to win over the third-place Liberal Democrats. Brown's party has been willing to entertain supporting the Liberal Democrats' demand for an overhaul of the voting system toward proportional representation, which would greatly increase that party's future seat tallies. But evening brought a further twist with a counteroffer from the Conservatives — of a referendum on a less dramatic type of electoral reform. While uncertainty prevails, to the displeasure of the markets, one thing appears certain: The career of Brown — the Treasury chief who waited in the wings for a decade for his chance to become prime minister — is winding to an end. |
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Forgive my stupidity but who are the good guys here and
can anyone give me the nitty-gritty in short?
Brown is a conventional British Labour lefty, and somewhat clueless in my view. Cameron is the "conservative" leader, but "conservative" in his view means a greener but less radical socialism. The Liberal Democrats are even more leftist. So I'm note sure there's a real "good guy" involved - Cameron should be that, but he's wrecked the Conservative Party as far as any real conservatism is concerned.
It’s the ol classic:
“You’re fired!”
“You can’t fire me, I quit!”
VERY good analogy, IMHO. ;-)
Cameron is a big squish. Like that one writer said last week, it might be better to let Labour and the Lib Dems take the fall for the coming train wreck. Cameron lost all of the Tory momentum when he started going to the center. Had the election been at the begining of the year, the Conservatives would’ve won a governing majority.
I can only say thank god the British finally woke up and dumped him.
Thank you
The good guy is Nigel Farage, of UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party). :)
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