I am beginning to despair of the Conservative Party. It is beginning to look as though they couldn't organise a p*ss up in a brewery. Labour should be weak at the moment. They have an outgoing prime minister who, the public have finally realised, mislead and lied and manipulated (well lied may be strong but the other two statements stand) things to his best advantage. One who is now trying a rapid world tour to get his legacy. Well, what do you expect, he spent most of the time out of the UK anyway, he may as well finish in the manner he's grown accustomed to (there's a thought, he may have to start paying for his own flights). And an incoming prime minister who is there because of an inherited right (they worry about the Royal family!) and no-one daring to challenge him, so no democracy there then. And are the Conservatives capitalising. No. Instead they go into a self destruct mode. When they could be talking about education instead they are bickering over the name of the type of school. Really, whether it is a grammar or an academy isn't the point. The point is we need to find ways to improve schools, to improve education for all, to raise everyone up to be the best they can, to reach their potential rather than pushing everyone down to the bottom rung.
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Woah - Genuinely I'm almost starting to feel twinges of sympathy! ;-)
Mind you, this seems to be as good a place as any to air a certain niggle that I have - remind me what happened the last time a serving Tory Prime Minister went mid-term? I recall I was at Uni and whilst a certain amount of beer was consumed in those years, I kind of think I'd have remembered if there was a general election...
Which is kind of fair enough, we elect a government not a Prime Minister (which is a de facto position).
So why are so many Tories whinging about the Gordon Brown thing?
Just thought I'd mention ;-)
It isn't that there isn't a general election. It has never been necessary to ahve a general election because, as you say, it is the party that is voted in. It is the fact that there has been no contest within the party. Does the labour Party really only have one viable candidate for Prime minister, in which case they had better worry, or was it simply that he was an automatic shoe-in, even if he isn't the best person for the job. It is the suspicion that it was always going to be this way, and that is certainly not democratic.
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