Will Brown be the next PM?

[Loosehead]

I think once Blair goes, the reds under the bed will emerge and contrive to put a lefty in charge and Brown will miss out, then they'll impose as much socialism on us as they can before Cameron kicks there butts out, just my own view what do abers's think? All views welcome.

[The Ponderer]

Jeez Delboy get back to your filofax!!

Can't see why anyone other than the top earning 10% of the population would want the tories back in.

Overall I believe Labour has done a good job, war in Iraq aside and implemented some good policies like Minimum Wage, Tax Credits(could have been implemented better) but have the best interests of the majority of the population at heart.

[youngmafbog]

Suggest you go to Specsavers then Ponerer. Lets start with education shall we ?

By the way the war in Iraq is probably the best thing Mr Blair has done. Shows he does look beyond the end of his nose unlike most lefties

[jake-the-peg]

I think you've been picking your own mushrooms again Loosehead!

Seriously though I think Blair will hand over to Brown and there'll be a honeymoon period just as Major enjoyed.

I think your Old Etonian buddy will have to fight more than one election to have a realistic shot at number 10

[Loosehead]

I just think (hope!) new Labour will self distruct when Blair goes and middle England who giveth will taketh away!

[youngmafbog]

If anyone seriously thinks the looney left will sit back and miss an opportunity then they need their heads looking at.

Mr Brown may also find that the economy (hit by massive stealth taxes) explodes soon.

Although some AB'ers may not like the comparison Blair is like Thatcher was - effectivley the party.

[Drusilla]

If David Cameron becomes Prime Minister, I think he will disappoint the former Thatcherites in the Conservative Party, as much as he upsets traditional Labour supporters.
The majority of the British public just want a reasonable standard of living with reliable services and no longer seem attracted in large numbers to left or right radicalism.
British politics today seems to start from the centre ground and move slightly left or right, and it seems appropriate that a new Conservative leader is a bit of a clone to New Labour's leader. After a few years in power, I bet we can't tell the difference.

[Chessman]

Cameron will win the next General Election. Brown will be the next PM, but only if Blair keeps his promise and hands over. At least if Brown does become PM, it'll get him out of the Chancellors office.

This country is going bust in a big way, two years at best, and its all Browns fault.

[jake-the-peg]

Going bust in a big way?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/business_uk_economy_plc/img/1.jpg

You don't think you might have caught the world's biggest ever case of exager-itis do you?

[Dolly1308]

Is it true that the NHS is 620million Pound in the red ?

[youngmafbog]

Once Stealth taxes bite (and they are starting to) then it will be a downward spiral. There's not much point in sticking your head in the sand.
Brown has taxed us to the hilt in typical labour tax and spend style. Mr average now has no spare cash, less on the high Street, Less to manufacturing etc. Also employing armies of civil servants with gold plated pensions and rights is not economically viable, any schollboy economist knows that.

[Loosehead]

Not to mention the 600000 new public sector "jobs" since 1997. I mean we relly must have all those diversity consultants and five a day coordinators all on gravy train pensions as you say YMB.

[jake-the-peg]

Do you remember Margaret Thatcher's ideas of economics?

Trickledown - that was one.

Give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and the benefit will "trickle-down" to the economy - trickle down to the BMW boardroom more like.

And the accusation is "schoolboy economics"!?!

That's nearly as funny as the newly elected leader of a party last in power 8 years ago calling a sitting Prime Minister "yesterdays man"!

I must go and polish my boots now didn't Cameron promise a return to National Service? - Bet that'll get quietly forgotten now that he's won!

[youngmafbog]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4494384.stm

Would appear �620m loss is predicted according to the Blair Broadcasting Corporation.

What do you expect its just a great black hole. Money wont sort it out, good mangement will. We need the NHS but it should be remembered it is National Health Service not Worldwide Health Service.

[johnlambert]

The Conservatives will wil the next election, after all they have been in power since 1979 and we've had 3 Tory PM's, Thatcher, Major and Blair.

[youngmafbog]

What exactly has Thatcher got to do with stating facts about Mr Browns policies. He has raised taxes to ordinary people but by the back door. This will have an effect on spending whcih then has a knock-on to everything else.

Civil Servants generate nothing to the GDP. They are a drain on society and should be kept to a minimum. Its not rocket science.

And the sooner National Service is bought in the better, hopefully then get some proper jails built too.

So long as we get a government that stops pampering to liberals I dont care what they call themselves.

You'll have to excuse me now, I'm just of to polish Maggies portrait in my library.

[Loosehead]

Thing is YMB even though Mrs Thatcher has been out for 15 years, assorted Liberals and Lefty's still insist on blaming her for problems that their own wet policies create.

[MrsT]

Sigh, I did my best but you're so right, they keep blaming me. I'm feeling a bit rough at the moment, bloody hair dresser, I told her the dryer was too hot.

[jake-the-peg]

You feeling better Mrs. T I thought you were in for a dodgy ticker today?

BOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jrtv]

I hope you are feeling a lot better Mrs T, you put this country back on it's feet when it was ill, keep up the recovery.

[MrsT]

Thank you both, you are so kind.