From: "Ivan" 
Newsgroups: uk.politics.misc uk.finance
Subject: Re: Economic slump could return Tories to power says Howard
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 00:07:29 +0100


"hummingbird"  wrote in message
news:674uj1lof98j1e7tc7kd8kd1m6na87k3sk@4ax.com...
> On 1 Oct 2005 11:36:05 -0700, "allan tracy"
> 
>  mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...
>
> >> Blair clearly doesn't want Gordon Brown-Stuff to take over from him.
> >> Do you think that Blair's delaying his own departure long enough for
> >> Brown-Stuff's economic 'miracle' to go pear shaped and solve the
> >> problem he has about who takes over?
> >>
> >> I sometimes get that impression.
> >>
> >
> >Yes definitely, wait for the downturn to damage Gordon's reputation.
> >There are plenty in New Labour that would like to try for the
> >leadership, and plenty who will encourage them when things start to go
> >pear shaped and the prospect of lost seats and opposition government
> >starts to rear its ugly head.
>
> On that basis I think time is on Blair's side.  He could stay on for
> another 3-4 years but the downturn will likely go serious much sooner.
>
> >> >I predict that not only will the Tories win the next election but that
> >> >Gordon Brown will not be the next leader of the Labour party.
> >>
> >> True if the miracle turns sour...
>
> >Not if but when.
>
> I see Brown-Stuff's already started lining up the whipping boys -
> it's all OPEC's fault.
>
> >The penny still hasn't dropped with Labour that utopia has to be paid
> >for.
>
> Indeed.
> How they crave to create state dependency w/o realising the costs.
>
> -- 

It's all very well receiving say a 27 billion pound windfall from
mobile-phone licences and then injecting an extra 20 billion into the NHS.
But the expectation will be that that amount of money 'plus' will then have
to be found on a yearly basis, so much easier to give, than to taketh away!


> smart men solve problems, wise men avoid them.