Mr. Cameron accepts the job offered by the Queen.
Posted on 05/11/2010 3:22:15 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Tory leader David Cameron has entered Number 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister for the first time - and said: "This is going to be hard and difficult work." To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser.
He told the waiting media: "On behalf of the whole country I would like to pay tribute to the outgoing Prime Minister for his long record of dedicated public service."
And he added: "I aim to form a proper and full coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats."
US President Barack Obama is thought to have already congratulated him by telephone, while Downing Street staff showed Mr Cameron's pregnant wife Samantha around Number 10.
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Mr. Cameron accepts the job offered by the Queen.
So is this good or bad?
Well, I guess he was never going to say "Gordon you Leper, you really fracked the country up. Sod off back to Scotland before we bomb it."
Would have been nice though.
“And he added: “I aim to form a proper and full coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.”
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Like all the bipartisanship we have here in the States. Good luck with that.
If he makes 8bn pounds worth of cuts and reduces marginal tax rates, it’s good.
If he fudges about and starts issuing edicts about carbon credits, then it’s bad.
I’d ask which end the excrement comes out of, but I’m pretty sure the answer would be: Both.
If he fudges about and starts issuing edicts about carbon credits, then it’s bad.
Problem is, he probably doesn't have the votes to enact the kind of reforms the UK needs to turn its economy around.
But at least the UK will have a leader who isn't trying to deliberately destroy their economy. Wish I could say the same for the US...
Just one day after the 70th anniversary of Churchill taking over from Chamberlain.
I don’t know enough about UK politics but isn’t a Lib Dem-Tory coalition as weird a mix as possibly could be imagined? Sounds positively unnatural
In British politics conservative means “not really conservative”. Liberal means “leftwing extremist”, and the Labor party is “appeasement liberals [ like Chamberlain].
True conservatives are in such a minority they can’t form a major party.
Uhhhh, Chamberlain was a Tory.
In British politics conservative means “not really conservative”.
Of course, that was the old-style liberalism that produced people like Gladstone.
>>>>I don’t know enough about UK politics but isn’t a Lib Dem-Tory coalition as weird a mix as possibly could be imagined?
Actually, the Liberal Democrats consider themselves to be the ideological heirs of the Whigs and other classical liberals. They come from the same Liberal intellectual tradition as America’s Founding Fathers, who were Whigs in Colonial America, and from the tradition that produced Edmund Burke and John Stewart Mill in Britain. Unlike the Labor Party, the Liberal Democrats do not consider themselves to be part of the socialist intellectual tradition.
It is true that all 3 major parties in Britain, the Tories, Labor, and Lib-Dems, have moved to the left in recent years. But on economic issues, Lib-Dems are closer to the Tories than they are to Labor. But the Lib Dems are left-wing on social issues.
Hey, after all they ARE politicians . . .
"Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal has not heart and any man who is over thirty and is not a Conservative has no brains.".....Winston Churchill.
Ah Thank you for the enlightenment. Makes much more sense now
Today’s lib-Dems have as much in common with the old whigs as Obama does with Democrats Andrew Jackson or Tom Jefferson.
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