Gordon Brown … you might just hang yourself, let alone Parliament
Perhaps the best result the Tories could have is this:
Conservatives – 34%
Liberal Democrats – 30%
Labour – 28%
This would give Labour an unjustifiable but largest number of MPs, and with it all that Gordon Brown feels he needs to hang onto Number 10.
But here’s what happens under his first properly elected premiership. Gordon has to beg for the support of the new larger number of SNP MPs, who under Alex Salmond demand what they have had their mind set on for decades, which is the return of all that oil revenue they believe to have been ’stolen’ by Westminster. English and Welsh taxes will be diverted up to Edinburgh – the SNP now having forgotten their earlier pledges of allegiance with Plaid Cymru – thereby restoring the power of any bank with the word Scotland in it’s name. Brown will also have to impose cuts to everything to survive this drain on resources and the imposition of demands from the International Monetary Fund – cuts to civil servant’s paypackets, impoverishing cuts in provision of all public services including the NHS, cuts to the military fighting in Afghanistan.
The Public, already very angry at the party coming third being still in charge, will join together and the resultant strikes through first and ‘Autumn of Discontent’ followed by a ‘Winter of Discontent’ will be fed up of Gordon Brown once and and for all. The Hung Parliament will hang itself and the Liberal Democrats will not support anyone government who doesn’t agree to the first Bill on the Statute Books being the introduction of Proportional Representation. The Conservatives will rally a vote of “No Confidence” in the Government. Brown will have no option to go to the country for the second time in 2010, and……. the angry electorate will boot Labour out for a generation.
The question really is, does a politician have the courage to bide their time? Perhaps someone should lend David Cameron a history book with the page turned over on Stanley Baldwin (around the election of 1923).
First past the post is set to go. What will happen after that will depend on David Cameron’s courage. If he gets it right, he WILL be Prime Minister. If he gets it wrong, PR could remove Conservative government forever. One way or another, the outcome of the 2010 General Election will see a big name – Labour or Conservative – fall from power for a long time to come.
Tags: 2010, Conservatives, David Cameron, General Election, Gordon Brown, Hung Parliament, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Stanley Baldwin 1923
Gordon has done a pretty good job of hanging himself today, with his “bigoted woman” remark…