JingleBells
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I'm guessing David Miliband will win. Mostly because he is a disciple of his Blairness, who still has a lot of love in the labour party. I think labour is now very muc aware that the good old cloth cap working class values they once embraced lead to permanently being opposition, whereas opening their politics to the middle classes by being only very slightly left of center will get them back in government.
Cameron can't last, because people have a very short memory and another generation of voters/students will be around who grew up under the coalition in five years time, and by then he will have had to make an abortion of the welfare state. People will be completely disillusioned with the conservatives, and nobody has any respect for clegg and his tory kissing surrender monkeys, so Labour will be in (possibly as a coalition) with David Miliband as PM would be my guess.
This all sounds very good but it's complete drivel.
No offence.
No offence taken
Bit curious as to which part is drivel though.
Labour squandered all the money the Treasury earned and didn't put any aside for the hard times. So the hard times are even harder because the cuts need to be more harsh to balance the books in a reasonable timeframe.
Yes, Labour were tax and spend. No surprise there Zen.
But we can't actually ever balance the books. So why doesn't the bank of england cut us some slack and make a large proportion of government borrowing zero-interest-rated for the forseeable future.
That'd cut us a lot of slack tbfh. Fucking central banks and our gay money system
The only one of the contenders with their finger on the pulse of reality is Diane Abbott, but since when has being in touch with the electorate been a prerequisite for government?