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JustinUK on 06 March 2009
SamuelRSmith said:

Brown needs the support of the people, else he could develop a bunker-mentality like most prime ministers do, and that's not good for anyone.

Unfortunately unless he does something spectacular he won't win approval. A lot of people are scared, jobless and/or angry about the economy. I personally have lost out because of the housing market slump. Not Gordon's fault but people in general see an election as an easy target to kick the government and vent their frustration. An election now would be a Tory landslide.

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SciFiBoy on 06 March 2009
JustinUK said:
SamuelRSmith said:

Brown needs the support of the people, else he could develop a bunker-mentality like most prime ministers do, and that's not good for anyone.

 

Unfortunately unless he does something spectacular he won't win approval. A lot of people are scared, jobless and/or angry about the economy. I personally have lost out because of the housing market slump. Not Gordon's fault but people in general see an election as an easy target to kick the government and vent their frustration. An election now would be a Tory landslide.

 

anyone who thinks thoose things would be better under the Tories knows next to nothing about politics, most of thoose problems would probably be alot worse under the Conservatives



SamuelRSmith on 06 March 2009
JustinUK said:
SamuelRSmith said:

Brown needs the support of the people, else he could develop a bunker-mentality like most prime ministers do, and that's not good for anyone.

 

Unfortunately unless he does something spectacular he won't win approval. A lot of people are scared, jobless and/or angry about the economy. I personally have lost out because of the housing market slump. Not Gordon's fault but people in general see an election as an easy target to kick the government and vent their frustration. An election now would be a Tory landslide.

 

 Yeah.

I think it's all particularly interesting. I mean, Milliband soon hushed his gums about leadership when news of a recession started flapping about. Tories will win the next election, but (I think) they'll be a one termer once people realise that the Tories can't really do much to help the economy. The (probably) 2015 election will be a tough one for both parties, but I think Labour will edge out with their leader being Milliband.



JustinUK on 06 March 2009
SciFiBoy said:
JustinUK said:
SamuelRSmith said:

Brown needs the support of the people, else he could develop a bunker-mentality like most prime ministers do, and that's not good for anyone.

 

Unfortunately unless he does something spectacular he won't win approval. A lot of people are scared, jobless and/or angry about the economy. I personally have lost out because of the housing market slump. Not Gordon's fault but people in general see an election as an easy target to kick the government and vent their frustration. An election now would be a Tory landslide.

 

anyone who thinks thoose things would be better under the Tories knows next to nothing about politics, most of thoose problems would probably be alot worse under the Conservatives


I personally do not blame Labour for the economic troubles. It's something that's affecting the whole world regardless of which political party is in charge. At a time like this though an election would be an easy way for the population to kick a government it wants to blame.

SamuelRSmith on 06 March 2009

I don't think any of us are under the illusion that the electorate knows fuck-all about politics.

If you were to ask someone walking down the street to name 5 members of the cabinet, they'd fail. They'd probably also struggle to name 5 MPs.

I'd also wager a dollar to a doughnut that they wouldn't know the difference between Parliament and Government.



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SciFiBoy on 06 March 2009
SamuelRSmith said:
I don't think any of us are under the illusion that the electorate knows fuck-all about politics.

If you were to ask someone walking down the street to name 5 members of the cabinet, they'd fail. They'd probably also struggle to name 5 MPs.

I'd also wager a dollar to a doughnut that they wouldn't know the difference between Parliament and Government.

 

that is the problem, we should start teaching Politics in school, that would help with that problem



SamuelRSmith on 06 March 2009
SciFiBoy said:
SamuelRSmith said:
I don't think any of us are under the illusion that the electorate knows fuck-all about politics.

If you were to ask someone walking down the street to name 5 members of the cabinet, they'd fail. They'd probably also struggle to name 5 MPs.

I'd also wager a dollar to a doughnut that they wouldn't know the difference between Parliament and Government.

 

that is the problem, we should start teaching Politics in school, that would help with that problem

 

 My school did teach politics. For three hours. Three PSRE lessons was all we had on the most important topic of them all. However, since I've left, it's changed to "Citizenship" - and there's less of a focus on religion, so, hopefully, they'll get some politics down.



SciFiBoy on 06 March 2009
SamuelRSmith said:
SciFiBoy said:
SamuelRSmith said:
I don't think any of us are under the illusion that the electorate knows fuck-all about politics.

If you were to ask someone walking down the street to name 5 members of the cabinet, they'd fail. They'd probably also struggle to name 5 MPs.

I'd also wager a dollar to a doughnut that they wouldn't know the difference between Parliament and Government.

 

that is the problem, we should start teaching Politics in school, that would help with that problem

 

 My school did teach politics. For three hours. Three PSRE lessons was all we had on the most important topic of them all. However, since I've left, it's changed to "Citizenship" - and there's less of a focus on religion, so, hopefully, they'll get some politics down.

 

thats better than my school, not once was poltics even mentioned, even in history we barely coverd any politics (other than at GCSE when i did history of medicine and we learnt about the NHS), they should teach it instead of Religion, have at least 1 hour a week till GCSE then you can choose wether or not to continue with it



SamuelRSmith on 06 March 2009

^That could cause issues of resentment, though, much like RE does.

They should just sneak areas in to other subjects like English, geography and history.



Kasz216 on 06 March 2009
SamuelRSmith said:
^That could cause issues of resentment, though, much like RE does.

They should just sneak areas in to other subjects like English, geography and history.

Yeah.  Religion and Politics can be bad buisness when it comes to schooling.  Just because you could get claims of bias.. and honestly there likely would be bias in the politics teachers.