[News] Brown scotches election rumours.

[davywavy]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday ended speculation of a snap Autumn election, stating that he would take the next two years to develop his 'vision' for the country. "I need to develop my vision for this country", he said, "And this will take me some years. Everyone knows I've had no vision up until now and I'll need quite a while to see what I can make up."
Brown went on to say; "When I took over as Prime Minister, I inherited a country which had been grotesquely mismanaged for the better part of a decade. The economy was left in a parlous state by the previous administration. It will take me some years to undo the damage, if ever. Thankfully, I have started taking advice from Margaret Thatcher which hopefully will speed the process."
At time of writing, neither Conservative leader David Cameron nor Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell have offered any comment on the annoucement as reports indicate they have not been able to stop laughing since yesterday.

Comments

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

Ah, he was never going to hold an election; there's no real precedent for it. In fact, if he did take advice from Thatcher, that'd probably have been it - after all, Major didn't hold one when he took the reins - although admittedly that was after a vote of no confidence had been taken within the party.

And Cameron knew it, hence his Scrappy Doo-ishness; except Scrappy at least thought he was ready for the fight. DC doesn't want to go anywhere NEAR an election until he's got the Express, Telegraph and Mail onside, hence the IHT and rich foreign people getting let off / poor ones being priced out of the country policies being hastily scrapped together.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

That might be a conovincing argument if it weren't for his loyal gnomes spending the last six weeks talking about one, and his own admission that 'should have decided sooner' not to have one; inasmuch as Brown ever tells the truth about anything, this would certainly indicate that he was considering one.

[(Anonymous)]

Plus the £25k flat rate tax bill for non-doms, (who currently pay nothing at all, thanks to Broons plutocrat friendly regime) to pay for inheritance tax cuts for the 32% of homeowners who now fall into that trap. Oh, and cutting the £7k average stamp duty paid on house moves (great economic policy, tax the mobility of the workforce)

Do try & keep up.