Lincsbodger said:
First of all the voters have short memories --
Well some do and some don't. I always said that the Conservatives would not be electable until there were enough voters who didn't remember Thatcher. Will it be Slimy Tony or Bumbling Brown who sticks in the craw of a whole generation of disillusioned Labour voters?
and also said:
-- and second its not oppositions that win elections, its governments that lose them
Very true. I hope the coalition does a good job but how, in five years time, do we vote for them again? Unless they merge into a single party (called what?
) there is no way to vote for what we've got now. We can only vote for one party or the other and this is where they might come unstuck.
Shifty22 said:
I don't trust women to make the right decisions when they really matter
That's a bit unfair. According to the Martian/Venusian theory, Martians solve problems; Venusians don't. But women are rather good at problems that have no solutions - or which don't actually exist. Consider these two scenarios:
1) Hold the front page. There's an asteroid coming our way.
Martian response: "Right. We need rockets, we need bombs and we need our best brains to work out the best way to hit that son of a female dog!" (Damn that automatic swear word detector!
)
Venusian response: "I'm really sorry I didn't invite you to my seventh birthday party.
"
An imminent asteroid strike is an engineering problem which we men are good at but --
2) Hold the front page. Archduke Ferdinand's been shot; and his wife too.
Venusian response: "Oh how terrible. Did they have any children?"
The Martian response is well known. That's one war decision that would have been better left to women.