opinions on last night's question time

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Popel Vooje Oct 24, 2009 12:51:21
Replying to handofdave

I would agree with your posts so far, except for one detail - the far right HAS had power in this country to the same extent that the Republicans have in the States - under Margaret Thatcher. It wasn't left-wing protests or a recovering economy that caused the National Front (the fomrer BNP, to all intents and purposes)to wane in popularity - it was Margaret Thatcher's pre-electin speech about britain being swarmed with immigrants. Hey presto, all but the most extreme of right-wingers suddenly started voting Conservative, and we had a government in power for thirteen years that was only three steps to the left of the BNP, if that.

I also suspewct that the same thing will happen again with Cameron. He may be presenting himself a sa reasonable, moderate new school Tory, but once the Tories get into power you can bet your boots they'll start showing their true colous again.

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handofdave Oct 24, 2009 13:10:46
Replying to Popel Vooje

I didn't forget about Thatcher. Since then, however, we've only had a total of 9 years where the president was a Democrat, and even that was a bit of a fluke... Clinton won without a majority vote because Ross Perot bled away ballots cast for Bush 1.

Obama won because Bush was a fuck-up. Yeah, he's charismatic and all, but if the economy hadn't tanked before the election, and if McCain hadn't screwed himself by choosing that twit Palin to be his VP, things would have ended differently.

The USA is primarily a center-right nation. Even here in Massachusetts, which has traditionally been lambasted by the right as being a 'lefty' state, we had Republican governors for the vast majority of the last 20+ years.

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