You really have no clue about parliaments, do you

Post #84,586 by jake123 2/27/03 8:55:53 AM Reply	You really have no clue about parliaments, do you If that happened, chances are good that the Labour party would return to power. I don't know if you've checked lately, but the vast majority of Britons are against going to war in Iraq. Losing Blair (and then splitting from the US position) would improve Labour's election prospects, not damage them. --\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \r\n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \r\n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #84,758 by rcareaga 2/27/03 11:48:43 PM Reply	He really doesn't M doesn't talk such a bad game as jingoes go, but every now and again he betrays, as here, a ludicrous gap in his comprehension of the way the world is put together--in this instance comically compounded by his innocent failure to remain silent when he was first called on it. This just in, Marlowe: when you find yourself in a hole, you stop digging. mirthfully, "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #84,759 by dmarker 2/27/03 11:53:19 PM Reply	I kindly told him once before ... Not to dig his own grave with his tongue. Ahhh well, we can only but try. Cheers Doug
Post #84,966 by jake123 2/28/03 7:44:49 PM Reply	Well, here's how it works He would no longer be PM. The Labour Party would select a new leader, and that person would become PM. The likelihood of the Conservative Party making him leader would approach 0; it's extremely unlikely that they would take the person who was disloyal to his party and make them the leader of their party... such a move smacks of political opportunism, and in parliamentary democracies, the person who would do that is not to be trusted in a party. Then, come election time (and him voluntarily leaving the party would NOT be a pretext for calling an election) it would be the luck of the vote as to whether the person who is leading the Conservative Party would become PM... who would almost certainly NOT be Tony Blair. For him to do that would be comitting political suicide. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #85,027 by dmarker 2/28/03 11:26:44 PM Reply	More to the point, in the history of Brit politics ... No PM has ever left office to join the opposition let alone imagined they could be immediately the oppositions choice of PM. Churchill left the Libs after WW1 to join the Tories but went into the political wilderness for 25 years. Cheers Doug
Post #85,034 by jake123 3/1/03 3:39:56 AM Reply	Like I said... chances approaching the limit of 0 --\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \r\n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \r\n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------

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