nightrider Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 How do you think Boris Johnson would fare as prime minister? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tracker Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 A bloody sight better than Grasping Gordon or his successor Mr Bean! Boris is a clever and intelligent man in the guise of a buffoon and the other two are buffoons pretending to be clever and intelligent men! At the moment DC is, on balance, doing OK as far as I can see in very difficult circumstances and it is too easy to be negative and critical rather than positive and supportive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightrider Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 I've got a sneaking admiration for Boris, to Boris a spade is a spade and he is not feared of making his views known, love to know how he would handle Nicholas Teacosy the French dwarf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGD Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 I have met him. He is a very very intelligent man. Do not be taken in for one second by the cloak of "buffoonery". He is also extremely astute. The issue in the UK really is not about who is Prime Minister. The issue is about who runs the country. Increasingly it is the Executive, at national, regional, and local level, not the elected Parliament that does so. I don't think one man, in one parliamentary term, whoever he might be, could any longer make much of a dent in that continuing drift of powers away from Parliament to Whitehall. Massive shifts in national policy take generations to play out, not a few months. Additionally, UK plc is bust. In fact it is far, far, far more broke than just bust. Accrued Government borrowing is so eye-wateringly massive now, it is just loony. The future of the UK is already mortgaged to the hilt and then miles beyond. In just the last two year of Gordon Brown's Government alone, he borrowed more, (in order to prop up the Public Sector that Labour had massively increased), than in every single other year since world war two. ADDED TOGETHER. ALL of that has to be paid back by UK taxpayers; plus all the guaranteed interest on it. It is debt repayment over the coming 50 years plus; and cutting back on Public Sector spending that is the only policy that any Prime Minister has at his disposal. In short, the future of the UK is to all real intents and purposes fixed, regardless of who gives a few speeches and feathers his own nest whilst suffering a spell as PM. In truth, it really matters not very much at all who is PM now. The damage is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laimeduck Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 BGD - 2011-12-19 2:44 PM I have met him. He is a very very intelligent man. Do not be taken in for one second by the cloak of "buffoonery". He is also extremely astute. The issue in the UK really is not about who is Prime Minister. The issue is about who runs the country. Increasingly it is the Executive, at national, regional, and local level, not the elected Parliament that does so. I don't think one man, in one parliamentary term, whoever he might be, could any longer make much of a dent in that continuing drift of powers away from Parliament to Whitehall. Massive shifts in national policy take generations to play out, not a few months. Additionally, UK plc is bust. In fact it is far, far, far more broke than just bust. Accrued Government borrowing is so eye-wateringly massive now, it is just loony. The future of the UK is already mortgaged to the hilt and then miles beyond. In just the last two year of Gordon Brown's Government alone, he borrowed more, (in order to prop up the Public Sector that Labour had massively increased), than in every single other year since world war two. ADDED TOGETHER. ALL of that has to be paid back by UK taxpayers; plus all the guaranteed interest on it. It is debt repayment over the coming 50 years plus; and cutting back on Public Sector spending that is the only policy that any Prime Minister has at his disposal. In short, the future of the UK is to all real intents and purposes fixed, regardless of who gives a few speeches and feathers his own nest whilst suffering a spell as PM. In truth, it really matters not very much at all who is PM now. The damage is done. Ok Bruce..... we can take it .....Tell us the bad news now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightrider Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 BGD - 2011-12-19 2:44 PM I have met him. He is a very very intelligent man. Do not be taken in for one second by the cloak of "buffoonery". He is also extremely astute. The issue in the UK really is not about who is Prime Minister. The issue is about who runs the country. Increasingly it is the Executive, at national, regional, and local level, not the elected Parliament that does so. I don't think one man, in one parliamentary term, whoever he might be, could any longer make much of a dent in that continuing drift of powers away from Parliament to Whitehall. Massive shifts in national policy take generations to play out, not a few months. Additionally, UK plc is bust. In fact it is far, far, far more broke than just bust. Accrued Government borrowing is so eye-wateringly massive now, it is just loony. The future of the UK is already mortgaged to the hilt and then miles beyond. In just the last two year of Gordon Brown's Government alone, he borrowed more, (in order to prop up the Public Sector that Labour had massively increased), than in every single other year since world war two. ADDED TOGETHER. ALL of that has to be paid back by UK taxpayers; plus all the guaranteed interest on it. It is debt repayment over the coming 50 years plus; and cutting back on Public Sector spending that is the only policy that any Prime Minister has at his disposal. In short, the future of the UK is to all real intents and purposes fixed, regardless of who gives a few speeches and feathers his own nest whilst suffering a spell as PM. In truth, it really matters not very much at all who is PM now. The damage is done. Bruce, If as you say UK PLC is bust how is it that we can give away millions of pounds to countries like India who has its own space programme costing millions? is there no way of some government departmental watchdog saying sorry but your not on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tracker Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Because the government are not running the country. DC is just a figurehead and just as in 'Yes Minister' the truth is far less pallatable than Whitehall would have you believe. When the Prime Minister and/or Parliament make decisions that Whitehall likes because it expands their empires they go along with it out of self interest and empire building no matter how good or bad it is for the country. The Prime Minister makes decisions that Whitehall does not like and they mobilise the unions to object. Either way and whatever goes awry it is never seen to be Whitehall's fault - either Parliament or the unions. Clever innit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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