An exiting time
1:16 pm on the 27th of January, 2004Will we be without a Primeminister tomorrow? Probably not, but if we were, what would happen? Would there just be a leadership election in the Labour Party or do they have to call a general election (surely if it’s found that the government lied then they have to?) I should probably know but I don’t whereas you probably do.
And what are your predictions for tonights result? My prediction is a narrow home win. Particularly after Nick Brown switched sides.
January 27th, 2004 at 10:38 pm on the 27th of January, 2004
Its easy to say now, but I swear this is true. I emailed a friend of mine this morning predicting govt majority of 5. Politicians never fall on the big issues. Except when they lose elections. What happens is they scrape the big votes, then get kicked later over something trivial. see Thatcher. Why did she go? IDS?
So tomorrow, Hutton will criticise the Beeb Campbell and Hoon. Hoon will resign on Thursday. He’s been kept in office precisely for that reason.
Blair now has six months. In that time he has to re-build bridges with his party. Regain his authority. Cos he lost it today. When Gordon Brown got Nick Brown to hand the vote to Blair, Blair became leader of the Labour Party in name only. Otherwise he’ll be out by the end of the year. With Howard ready to pounce, the Labour MP’s will be poll watching now. If they think their seats are in danger, they won’t hesitate.
January 31st, 2004 at 9:49 am on the 31st of January, 2004
Well it looks like big brothers prediction on the Hutton report was incorrect. I think we all forgot that just because law lords were meant to be impartial, doesn’t mean that they are.
Why is Geoff Hoon still in a job. He still deliberately ‘outed’ Kelly as the man who was the key witness, when he probably should have, not to mention all this stuff about the army being under-equipped in Iraq.
The Hutton inquiry was meant to be an investigation into the death of Dr Kelly, I thought, and not into the details of Andrew Gilligans story, which was just a part of his death. Sure, it was the first part, but it wasn’t just Andrew Gilligan quoting an anonymous source in his poor report that made Dr Kelly kill himself - plenty happened after that which the government has to be considered culpable for, surely?
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