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DAMNIT!!!
I meant to make this a public poll (coz reckon this question will cut right across left and right) ! I am not sure even mods can change it now (will try)
Neil Kinnock's Labour Party
The Conservtives: From Hague to Cameron
This is a discussion on Who were the Worst Opposition in the UK? within the Coffee Room forums, part of the The House of Commons category; Poll just for fun really...
Poll just for fun really
DAMNIT!!!
I meant to make this a public poll (coz reckon this question will cut right across left and right) ! I am not sure even mods can change it now (will try)
either do it or don't. But I got places to be
I've gone with the Conservatives, but I would specifically state under Michael Howard they were the weakest. Certainly the most un-electable politician during my lifetime.
"Something of the night" about it him indeed.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
"To be honest, you think a/c jump the fence, I say the whole college jump the fence"
The wonder that is Angelcountry
"If we're going to have a police state, at least orgainise it properly!"
Guy Outside the Chilcott Enquiry as he was led away by police for causing a 'disturbance' (thanks to LA I now know his name is Michael Culver)
accidental genius!
Gone with the Tories also, just because although the Labour Party in the 80s had its problems (what with the split away from militant etc) there was at least a very vocal opposition to every single Conservative policy (even if it was just Tony Benn, Dennis Skinner and Tam Dalyell on occasion). Whereas the Tories were complicit in some of the worst decisions of Blair's tenure, for example the war; although this does of course reflect rather more badly on NuLab than the Tories.
"The object of universities is not to make skilful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings." John Stewart Mill
Agreed and as much as it was tragic what Blair did to left wing politics in Britain, the silver lining was watching the Tories flailing about having had the carpet pulled from under them! At times under Blair they were completely out flanked ON THE RIGHT (e.g law and order)!! This meant they either had to agree and support him, shut up or try and move to the left (as Cameron half heartedly tried - well we'll try anything at this point).Originally Posted by Opinionated74
It was often rather entertaining to watch the dying fish flap about one way then the other!
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