The Bandwagon

[trish1234567]

Does anyone know of a bandwagon that Tony Bliar won't jump onto?

[Ducati]

The truth bandwagon?

[FastBarry]

The Tory Bandwagon.

[Ralph]

Does anyone know of a bandwagon that a Politician won't jump onto? Adoption of a cause that a tabloid has pointed out, before the other guys get it is the only thing any of them can do to try and differentiate themselves from the others. At the end of the day (it gets dark?) they're all much the same and will do much the same if / when they're elected.

[trish1234567]

Come on Ralph ........ Bliar is the King of the band wagon jumpers!

[luckyboy]

Hes got a rival in michael howard.

Seriously if you are trying to make a party political point, it won't wash to just bash one individual, as ralph says they are all at it...come on, mickey howard has jumped on more bandwagons this last month than most politicians do in a lifetime.

[Ralph]

The other boy does loads of it too! I really believe that either of the two main parties in a position to govern this country are as bad as each other. Jumping on the latest policing statistics bandwagon or school dinners bandwagon or immigration / asylum seeker bandwagon (very separate issues but rarely portrayed as so), etc. ad infinitum, is not the sole territory of any political party in this country. One of the two big parties will get elected next month (no big surprises!), probably Labour again but you never know, and who ever it is will do just as good/bad a job as the others. The Tories may lambast Labour over Euro policies for example, but if they were given the reins they'd do no (or very little) different .
I'm being politically neutral here, it's just what I see on the news, see in the papers and see around me. I do vote and consider it important to do so, but I'm not letting my political preferences or social views affect anything I post here (not yet anyway) since there is soooo many other people doing that already.

[trish1234567]

Luckyboy - Your Tone would be most upset at being called "one individual". Seriously though, no other politician can match up to Blair's blatant lying and opportunitism.  He even phoned up Jonthon Coleman recently to wish him luck on his new programme spot. Probably Allistair's idea. Now, he plannng - again - to take up the same faith as his wife.  Next step the Pope's funeral. One can read him before it happens!  Admit the Tories could do better than Michael Howard. However, at least he took the bull by the horns and did something about

[Dom Tuk]

Hw will not jump on to the 'evolution' bandwagon as he is firmly committed to the 'creationist' bandwagon and has declared that he will 'square it up' with his maker for all his follies on this planet..... 

[cheyenne]

The poll tax bandwagon,That mr howard instigated!!Sorry howard but we will not forget.Once bitten twice shy!!

[luckyboy]

Oh yeah we go.. party politics.

Trish..hes not my tone..its just my view.. and it is a correct one that all politicians are opportunists when it comes to vote grabbing, and trying to say that "tone" is worse than say michael howard or even charley kennedy when it comes to vote grabbing is absurd. "your mickey" has been touring the tv and radio stations just as much making hay on anything from asylum seekers, gypsies promising this and that, wheeling out his family etc..not blaming him thats his job to try and win as many votes as possible, and that is tony blairs job as well... but keen observers of political campaigns down the years of both political parties can tell you that many of the promises are never kept.. and issues like crime, immigration, europe are just used by both sides as populist rhetoric to get us the people to believe that there are marked differences between the major parties when in fact there isn't. 

[Ralph]

Hear hear!

[jenstar]

The socialist bandwagon?

[eupraxia]

Like Luckyboy says jumping on bandwagons is a politicians job.

But you could always go for the Nazi party. They did it the other way round. They had the bandwagon and if you the voter didn't jump on it then you were the one for the chop.

At least we have a choice. All be it not a great one.

Eupraxia