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Jun 03 '09 by stubby43
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British goverment collapsing

Things are looking pretty bad for labour, by friday there might be elections for a new labour leader or the goverment might get dissolved until we can elect a new goverment.

bbc article

Either way people are calling for Gordon Browns head.

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garciagirl on Jun 03 '09 at 7:47am

What happens if your gov't gets dissolved?

staffell on Jun 03 '09 at 7:48am

RIOTS

stubby43 on Jun 03 '09 at 7:50am

Not much, I'm pretty sure the queen rules the country in the interim period until we elect a new goverment to take the old ones place.

Even if the goverment isnt disolved we will most likely have a new prime minister, I cant wait for him to be gone.

Kookaberry on Jun 03 '09 at 7:53am

So everyone is quitting cause they were caught spending a lot of money? That's what I could gather from the article anyway.

radiostaticstar on Jun 03 '09 at 7:55am

So everyone is quitting cause they were caught spending a lot of money?

sounds like just another day in congress...

radiostaticstar on Jun 03 '09 at 7:55am

*the

garciagirl on Jun 03 '09 at 7:56am

Has this ever happened before, I mean the gov't being dissolved?

Kookaberry on Jun 03 '09 at 8:12am

radiostaticstar on Jun 03 '09 at 7:55am

So everyone is quitting cause they were caught spending a lot of money?

sounds like just another day in congress...

Exactly, haha. Everyone in Congress spends money on stupid shit and they just deny it and then it's business as usual.

producer on Jun 03 '09 at 8:13am

i'm glad i'll be leaving britain in a week. it's gettin pretty wackadoodle over here

Mya Jamila on Jun 03 '09 at 8:22am

Eric, where are you heading?

producer on Jun 03 '09 at 8:24am

i'm going back home to baltimore, md

Mya Jamila on Jun 03 '09 at 8:25am

Ahhh.

tracerbullet on Jun 03 '09 at 8:32am

it probably sucks, but i actually find it kind of cool that the british government could just dissolve and they'll create a new one. that kind of stuff would never happen here. at least not without two years of an impeachment trial or something.

Kookaberry on Jun 03 '09 at 8:55am

Yeah, it's actually kind of neat that your government seems to have the capacity to change. Ours is so bloated that you'd basically need to drop a nuke* on Capitol Hill in order to trigger a total reelection.

*disclaimer: I'm not suggesting this, American government spy people =)

tracerbullet on Jun 03 '09 at 9:00am

oh great, amy. now everyone in this blog is on the FBI's list. thanks a lot!

nasmo on Jun 03 '09 at 9:00am

Well now old bean, wot's all this then, eh? You chaps in a spot of bother? Jolly good, don't mind me, I'll just fill up the lorry with petrol and take it over to my flat to eat some crisps.

Tallyho!

bsweber on Jun 03 '09 at 9:08am

you guys should just elect obama or something

tracerbullet on Jun 03 '09 at 9:16am

they can have bush or clinton. we're done with them now.

Steve The Great on Jun 03 '09 at 9:21am

producer on Jun 03 '09 at 8:24am

i'm going back home to baltimore, md

Woo Baltimore!!!!

Loot me something nice!!

producer on Jun 03 '09 at 9:25am

i will steve, i will

stubby43 on Jun 03 '09 at 9:26am

Technically our goverment dissolves every time we elect a new goverment, also the fact that our goverment can disolve at any time is a bad thing because the goverment thats in power usually calls an election when its too their advantage meaning their more likely to stay in power.

Also some of the claims were moronic, like moats.

producer on Jun 03 '09 at 9:28am

MOATS!

tesco on Jun 03 '09 at 9:29am

Also some of the claims were moronic, like moats.

and cabel TV porn. So glad to see Jacqui Smith gone, she was awful.

squintygirl on Jun 03 '09 at 9:31am

The Canadian system is parliamentary, also, and there's always threat looming to dissolve the government. It's a pain in the ass, but it's amazing to watch when it all go down in flames.

squintygirl on Jun 03 '09 at 9:31am

*goes

tracerbullet on Jun 03 '09 at 9:32am

moats? like...water surrounding a castle moats? is your government trying to keep the black knight at bay?

sonmi on Jun 03 '09 at 9:33am

i'm digging a moat around my car. then i can carpool.

sonmi on Jun 03 '09 at 9:33am

nice blog contribution, sonmi

tracerbullet on Jun 03 '09 at 9:35am

nasmo on Jun 03 '09 at 9:36am

The Daily Show segment about all this, especially the moats, was fantastic.

Er, I mean... Crikey, guv'nor! It's a right sticky wicket, and no mistake!

sonmi on Jun 03 '09 at 9:40am

I'M IN A MOAT

noodlezoop on Jun 03 '09 at 9:40am

sonmi on Jun 03 '09 at 9:33am

i'm digging a moat around my car. then i can carpool.

omg. I did not expect that. that was the best. I'm shaking. there are real tears running down my face.

mullmuggins on Jun 03 '09 at 9:41am

The MP claiming for the duck Island was in the constituency where I grew up. It has prompted my dad to consider running as an independent candidate... Go dad!

randyotter3000 on Jun 03 '09 at 9:43am

you guys should just elect obama or something

oh you mean the guy who does pretty much as equally fail as any other president but gets away with it cus hes almost black ?

mullmuggins on Jun 03 '09 at 9:43am

Also, I love how - true to form - the Tories are claiming to have their moats cleaned and for duck islands whilst Labour are claiming for tv's from John Lewis and porn... haha

Krakaboom on Jun 03 '09 at 9:44am

The list of claims get worse and worse everytime you read them. MPs were claiming for computer equipment for their family, flats that their siblings were living in, lightbulbs, gardeners, mortgages that had already been fully paid off... one of them even claimed 5 pounds that they'd given to a charity.

The two most annoying things:

1) None of them are admitting guilt. They're insisting that what they did was well within the rules.

2) If WE were caught cheating on expense claims, we'd be fired, and possibly be facing criminal charges. These MPs are offering to step down, and will still be eligible for some jawdropping pension pots.

They're not all bad. But the ones that are, are unbelievably bad.

tracerbullet on Jun 03 '09 at 9:45am

whoa, whoa, whoa, someone wants a duck island? like, an island specifically for ducks?

i think i might vote for this guy.

Mya Jamila on Jun 03 '09 at 9:58am

Kookaberry on Jun 03 '09 at 8:55am Yeah, it's actually kind of neat that your government seems to have the capacity to change. Ours is so bloated that you'd basically need to drop a nuke* on Capitol Hill in order to trigger a total reelection.

*disclaimer: I'm not suggesting this, American government spy people =)

Do American gov't spy people actually do the whole "following" thing?

mullmuggins on Jun 03 '09 at 10:17am

Hey, tracer, you can't vote for him and my dad... What if my dad promised you your own duck island?

tracerbullet on Jun 03 '09 at 10:23am

then i would vote for your dad

squatterjohn on Jun 03 '09 at 10:23am

When I was in Malta, which was 2006, I would read the British papers and back then they were all calling for Tony Blair to resign (cos apparently he'd had long enough and it was Gordon's go now) and now they've realised they don't like him much either. My question really is isn't Britain due for an election by now anyway?

tracerbullet on Jun 03 '09 at 10:25am

my completely invalid vote is totally for sale

mullmuggins on Jun 03 '09 at 10:27am

haha, SJ - we last had one in 2005 and Gordon Brown has until next year to call one, which he won't do because he knows he would lose. It's so frustrating - he wasn't even voted in to power and now he won't leave!

mullmuggins on Jun 03 '09 at 10:28am

Thanks tracer, your duck island is in the post. Some assembly required...

tracerbullet on Jun 03 '09 at 10:29am

yes!

stubby43 on Jun 03 '09 at 10:30am

Long over due, to be honnest the only people that wanted Gordon Brown in power was labour (and even then probably only a few people), the media just wanted a story.

We've never liked him, he's an un elected prime minister leading a party that we've been trying to get rid of, the problem is they've always managed to look like the lesser of two evils but thats changing now.

I'll probably vote conservative simply because they have the best chance of getting in power.

squatterjohn on Jun 03 '09 at 10:31am

John Howard did that. Just held on to the bitter end cos he was going to lose. He really should've palmed it off to some smug underling to lose the election to the other smug guy we have now, maybe that's what Blair did. But we get an election every three years.

tracerbullet on Jun 03 '09 at 10:32am

foreign politics are so much more interesting than u.s. politics

welshalex on Jun 03 '09 at 10:32am

What I love about Britain, is how noone votes in elections or gives a crap about politics until everything goes tits up.

Im voting for our local independent candidate tomorrow. Im not voting for another political party until all the MPs who didnt claim any expenses get together.

squatterjohn on Jun 03 '09 at 10:35am

It's compulsory for us to vote.

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