Originally Posted by perseus

Sorry, but I partly blame this on women voters, who always have a tendency to vote Conservative despite receiving most benefits and equality from Labour. As a left wing female political commentator said, they are like Turkey's voting for Christmas.

Kind of a funny sexiest comment.
In the US the opposite is more accurate. Women seem to vote their own minds here and they seem to be more interested in social issues than men. Lumping women into a single voting block would be very short sighted here.

Originally Posted by Chukpike

Kind of a funny sexiest comment.
In the US the opposite is more accurate. Women seem to vote their own minds here and they seem to be more interested in social issues than men. Lumping women into a single voting block would be very short sighted here.

neal Boortz pointed out that there was almost no spending on social projects @ the Fed. level untill women got the Right to vote, done nothing but climb since.

Saying their is a tendency isn't putting a group in a block! That's why I said tendency! Neither do I arrive at such conclusions lightly. Statistics show that women have tended to vote Conservative more than men despite the majority of women politicians being Labour who have campaigned and implemented womens rights far more vigourously. I am also quoting a female journalist.

Beware parties which have slagged off other parties, but may subsequently require them to form a coalition for government! This is a classic. Our Prime-minister is on the stand with his coalition partner and a reporter asks him if he now regrets calling him 'a joke' in a TV debate only weeks earlier!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTkUKkJc1Js

This excruciating moment is probably only beaten by this one by the previous Prime-minister during the election campaign. He left his mic on! Bear in mind a few percent change in vote can result in a massive change in seats. It probably sealed his fate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFl_evwML2M

I am bathed in a rosy glow of political history. In 1945 I was just 10 years old, when I saw the empty bomb damaged pub on the corner just behind the buildings where I lived in the deep east end of London being used as the Liberal headquarters of their candidate , Major Paul Wright, one of Montgomery's staff during WW11. I didn't know what was going on, but I was interested and hung around the front door until they invited me in. Who is your Dad going to vote for, they asked me. Labour says I. Ha they tell me, Labour hasn't got in for 14 years.

Anyway, I worked for them right through the campaign, even did a bit of typing for the front window. Major Wright didn't win, Dan Chater (Labour) won, but I remained an old fashioned Liberal all my life.

That was 1945 - and they never made it into government until now.
Good on 'em. Glad I was around to see it- I can say I told you so, my boys made it at last. Good result for an extreme moderate like me! A Liberal contribution to government. You know it makes sense.