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British Prime Minister Brown to Resign by September (why wait?)
FoxNews.com ^ | 5/10/2010

Posted on 05/10/2010 9:22:52 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies

LONDON -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he will resign by September

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: gordonbrown; labour; quitter; resignation; uk2010
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To: dfwgator

Yes but Scotland is still part of the Union, and hence is entitled to its democratic representation just as much as any other section of the country. You might equally say that if not for the North East it would have been a rout for the Tories, or if not for the shire counties, it would have been a rout for Labour.


21 posted on 05/10/2010 10:17:49 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Genoa

Would you really want to be in charge when the debt crisis hits?


22 posted on 05/10/2010 10:18:28 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: dfwgator

Thats an awful lot of suck :) Perhaps we should rename him Gordon Dyson.


23 posted on 05/10/2010 10:18:52 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9

Just sayin’ maybe to the Tories, letting Scotland go independent might not be such a bad idea.


24 posted on 05/10/2010 10:19:00 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: GeronL; Genoa

It has been said by some observers that this was a very good election to lose...


25 posted on 05/10/2010 10:19:59 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: dfwgator

You might have a different viewpoint if you live, as I do, on the borders. All the evidence from history is that this island is not big enough for two governments.


26 posted on 05/10/2010 10:21:47 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: dfwgator

Agree with you on the issue of Scottish independence. Scotland drags down the rest of the UK both ideologically and financially. The Scottish Nationalist Party is even further left than Labour. Scotland’s impact on UK politics is very similar to the impact that the province of Quebec has on Canadian politics. The fear of independence leads the other parties to policies of appeasement. If Scotland and Quebec were independent, Britain and Canada would both be better off.


27 posted on 05/10/2010 10:23:11 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: GeronL
No GeronL...it means he is attempting to make a deal with the lib dems to keep Labour in power. He is, in effect, sacrificing himself for that ambition. He has little choice really. No way will the Lib Dems form a coalition with him as Prime Minister.
28 posted on 05/10/2010 10:23:30 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9

Clegg wants him gone. I know that.


29 posted on 05/10/2010 10:24:47 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: dfwgator

“Letting Scotland go independent?”

I don’t think it is the Tories who oppose it,just that Labour depends much like any liberal party on the a large monolithic Anglo socialist bloc.

Not to mention they could lose quite a few seats if Scotland bounced.

But no the UK is as unlikely to crack down on Scottish Independence as it is to really back the Unionist cause in Northern Ireland.

These areas were never really part of England anyway.Unlike Wales or Cornwall.


30 posted on 05/10/2010 10:25:09 AM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: littleharbour
Scotland can't form an independent government. What are they going to live on? Over half of them are working for the UK government as it is. What happens when the UK government is gone? The new Scottish government will not need all those people.

They have some agriculture, and some fisheries, and there's always tourism, but that's not going to keep them going. Most of the heavy industry has long gone. The shipyards are dependent on subsidies. They have a very good education system that they won't be able to afford without English subsidies, so that will go downhill. Unemployment will rocket, and in order to pay for it they will have to print money or raise taxes, which will impoverish them even further. Odds on they will blame the English for their celtic paradise going belly up (the alternative would be to take responsibility for their own ineptitude, and of course they will never do that, being guid lil socialists).

The prospect of a paranoid, poverty-stricken, fragmented and riotously unstable nation to the north doesn't fill me with much cheer. Particularly as I live in the borders.

31 posted on 05/10/2010 10:31:42 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9

Didn’t they mostly live by cattle-raiding each other before Bonnie Prince Charlie days? Most of my Scottish history comes from romances (Outlander, yay!) & children’s novels (Sally Watson).


32 posted on 05/10/2010 10:35:52 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: Vanders9
The prospect of a paranoid, poverty-stricken, fragmented and riotously unstable nation to the north doesn't fill me with much cheer

Pretty much sums up the American southwest.

33 posted on 05/10/2010 10:37:05 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Vanders9

So Scotland is Detroit, MI basically; they don’t realize that those they keep voting to put in power, due to the fear of losing their handouts, are the very same people who destroyed their economy in the first place?


34 posted on 05/10/2010 11:11:51 AM PDT by Lilpug15 (The Forgotten Man: He works, he votes and he generally prays - but He Always Pays": Sumner)
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To: Vanders9
Thats an awful lot of suck :) Perhaps we should rename him Gordon Dyson.

lmao

35 posted on 05/10/2010 11:12:14 AM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Looks like UK Conservatives manage to get out maneuvered even when they win.....just like here.


36 posted on 05/10/2010 11:14:37 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Times Square: A law enforcement success made possible by an intellingence failure.)
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To: clintonh8r

But, “It’s Scotland’s oil!”....


37 posted on 05/10/2010 11:51:42 AM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: CondorFlight


Oh what a day it's been. Ruined the British Empire's economy and now I need a nap.
38 posted on 05/10/2010 1:53:12 PM PDT by mentor2k
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To: fishtank

Good to “see” you again!


39 posted on 05/10/2010 3:01:07 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
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To: nina0113

Look up the word “reiver”.

Its where we get the words “bereft” and “bereaved” from.


40 posted on 05/10/2010 3:21:06 PM PDT by Vanders9
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