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Did the May 2010 UK General Election already take place? Why is Hague talking as if he were Foreign Secretary? Did I miss something?

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Oct 24th, 2009 at 03:12:38 AM EST
Don't you realise that opinion polls count as much as elections these days?  That's how eurosceptics know Lisbon was effectively rejected by EU members and the Parliamentary ratification is just a con job.  The Tories are the "Government-in-waiting" with only the unelected Brown acting as a barrier to the democratic process.  The Prospect of Blair getting the Euro job is just so dreadful because it would mean they can't get rid of those awful nuLabour people who usurped their position as the natural party of Government entirely.  Come to think of it, are Tories ever out of power - in their own heads at the very least?

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Sat Oct 24th, 2009 at 05:05:46 AM EST
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Speaking of those dreadful elections, what are the chances of the right wing and anti-labour vote being so split between the Tories, Lib dems, UKIP, BNP, raving loonies and assorted nationalists that Labour gets in again with only 30% of the vote - or at least that the Tories fail to get an overall majority?

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Sat Oct 24th, 2009 at 05:08:38 AM EST
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Chances would be minute due to constituenties divided into districts and winner takes all.

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Sat Oct 24th, 2009 at 05:55:05 AM EST
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