absolutely, cameron's said himself he wants to be the new blair, which considering they're meant to be on opposite sides seems a little weird.
It's definately a little weird considering what he's said about blair in the past. The thing is I still don't feel that cameron has the same connection with the people that blair had. Now yeah some people hated him because of the war and still do but at the end of the day tony blair successful kept the labour party in power for 13 years. blair was and is the Labour Party's longest-serving Prime Minister; the only person to have led the Labour Party to three consecutive general election victories; and he is the only Labour Prime Minister to serve consecutive terms, more than one of which was at least four years long - that is fact no matter what you think of him. Even if people weren't for the war the majority kept him in power even when only 60% (I believe) of people voted in the last general election. I don't feel that at any point cameron could do that.
as for trust, i don't think any one can (or should, actually) ever trust a government. i don't think they should always be hounded by any means but i think the questioning of authority is far more important than people think. a population that allows a government to blindly lead them places is going to end up being dictated to before they know it (just look what happened with hitler, no decent opposition + apathy and the depression of an economic downturn = oops!). we vote for these people, we essentially give them their jobs and as such they are accountable to us, and we should be able and willing to hold them to that account.
yes, exactly! it is about representation, or at least it should be, but these days i don't think they do a very good job of representing the people, they seem massively out of touch - did you see that c4 thing recently where they made a bunch of mps live on very poor estates for a week - none of them had a clue! they were shocked that people still lived in such conditions in this day and age but if they're meant to be representative of the people - how can they ignore and/or be utterly clueless of massive chunks of the population like that?
agreed!
i think it's unlikely, but i also hope so...The real fun will start after the Leaders Debate tommorow. I hope one of the leaders is able to step outside the box and actually surprise us...
I have a big headache after watching the Leaders Debate on ITV. I think Gordon Brown stepped out of the box a little for me but mostly they were all humming the same tune that they've always done, Brown say we're on the road to recover, Cameron babbling on like a twit about change and Clegg saying I'm the one to make a real difference and real change. What did you make of it all *lisasimpson*? Were you able to watch it? The 1 minute each thing was a little annoying but atleast it meant they kept to the point!
BTW, the next one is next Thursday on Sky News at the same time. Last one will be done by the BBC.
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