Monday, 1 October 2007

What Is The Point?

It is psephologically impossible for the Tories to win the next General Election. The swings required are off the chart, they would need an eleven point lead to secure an overall majority of one, and level pegging with Labour would deliver a Labour overall majority of ninety. But if the Tories actually cannot win, then what is the point of the Labour Party?
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8 comments:

  1. Anonymous1 October 2007 at 14:11

    Actually the more pertinent question is, what is the point of the Tories, that after 10 years they are still unelectable...

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  2. David Lindsay1 October 2007 at 15:48

    Yes, but we knew that anyway.

    The Tories are the point of Labour, always have been. If the Tory bogeyman went away, then no one at all would stay in the Labour Party, which is already down to a couple of hundred members per safe seat (mostly elderly, and almost all either in recept of councillors' allowances or married to people who are), and practically none anywhere else.

    Even Labour's own Leader would rather have Tories and Lib Dems. Perhaps THAT is the point of the Tories - to provide members of Gordon Brown's Government? Yet you still seem to love him. Why? He visibly despises you even more than the last one did. And that really is saying quite something.

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  3. Anonymous1 October 2007 at 23:17

    We need a reasonably close contest if only to keep power in check. We have seen what big majorities mean - a Government that can do what "They'' want and an opposition so demoralised it hardly bothers because it knows it will make not the slightest difference to its chances.
    Were Governments on a knife edge all the time they would have to listen to the public, if only to save their scrawny hides and heelp their sewaty hands on the perks and privileges that go with the job.

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  4. David Lindsay2 October 2007 at 09:52

    What does it matter what the majority is, if all the parties are in any case just trading names of single entity?

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  5. Anonymous2 October 2007 at 18:05

    To suggest that the Labour Party and the Tories are essentially the same party is to have a very shallow understanding of both parties' policies.

    Of course i wait with baited breath for your (non)party to "hit" the political scene.

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  6. David Lindsay2 October 2007 at 18:09

    What policies? On everything that really matters (and most things that don't), their policies are either exactly the same or equally non-existent.

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  7. Anonymous2 October 2007 at 22:30

    Yes, the "corporate'' parties are more or less the same. Blazers or jackets, the big idea, feeding ordinary people rubbish while pursuing agendas that, just by chance, benefit the BIG international money interest.

    Would they stand for a "real'' party that made a genuine stab at trying to implement policies that did actually benefit ordinary people, or would they use their considerable power to wreck it? Is the Palace of Westminster now a glorified parish council?

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  8. David Lindsay3 October 2007 at 09:44

    There's nothing wrong with Parish Councils, we get a lot done, and we all do it for free.

    As for whether they'd stnad for it, if their Electoral Commission snads for it, then they are just going to have to at any General Election from 2009 onwards.

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