They don’t start counting until the morning.
Major came close at times, but managed to hang on for a full term.
Yup. Look at it this way: none of the main parties would dare suggest scrapping the NHS, none are keen on capital punishment, none want any really significant tax cuts, all want to find a way to increase the state pension, etc etc…
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The Dems are conservative over there? :eek:
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From “Beyond the Fringe” a sketch called ‘That’s America’ which basically joked about evry area- The South, The Mid West, The West, The North not ‘being’ America- and concluding that ‘New England’- only a bit of Old England- ‘That’s America!’ digresses and they say-
[posh British Accent]‘Off course, they inherited our two party system as well. They have the Republicans who are just like our Conservatives, and they have the Democrats who are just like our Conservatives!’[/posh British Accent].
Brown is not keen on the euro, and even Blair recently accepted that we aren’t going to join it any time soon. But the idea had already been kicked into the long grass a while ago, so this election hasn’t changed things much.
The hotter, or at least warmer issue at the moment is the proposed European constitution. “New Labour” (Blair’s allies), the Lib Dems, and some left-wing Tories are keen, most others are sceptical. Opinion polls are not in favour. It’s still just about conceivable, though, that the referendum could be won. If Chirac pulls it off I think Tony will go for it. If he loses, which he probably will, he’ll resign. If he wins, he gets what he has always wanted, a place in the history books next to Margaret Thatcher.