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Can't afford to shop anywhere else. Heh. Apparently the best time to go is during the week, to avoid the rampaging mothers and prams.

Incidentally, I recommend you all contact your newly elected local MPs after Thursday to find their position on civil service job cuts, and the detrimental effect this has had on public services. Or something you care about. At least if you aren't going to protest, grumble to your MPs...

It seems to be official. Gordon Brown is the latest Prime Minister. I have a couple of thoughts about this coronation.

1- I wonder if he is being set up to fail at the next general election and really pop his bubble.

2- Is the deputy job being set up as an interesting challenge to make sure media attention is diverted from something else going on in government such as GB coronation?

3- Should we take this opportunity to have a general election to see what the population think about the new major policy decisions of our punctuation mad new Prime Minister?

i can't imagine anyone bar the conservatives would like to see gordon go down in flames at the next general election, because even the labour party would rather have an unpopular leader in power than be in opposition. i do think the deputy's race should generate a contest sadly lacking for that of the leader's post, though i think its more to sate the party's own need for internal struggle than to keep the media happy - anyone could win but i'm praying it wont be that dog-faced bitch hazel bleirs; that woman cannot answer a straight question without resorting to diversions, excuses and the old adage 'under the last conservative government...' ten years labour have been in power what the fuck are you people doing if things haven't changed since 1996?

although there wont be, i think there should be a general election simply because no one should be the prime minister of this country without being elected to the position. brown would probably win anyway in the current political climate - with a further reduced majority in all likehood, no chance of a hung parliament yet - but the prinicple is clear; democratic countries elect their leaders, they should not let them 'inherit' the job from someone else.

There is some argument to say that the general election is based on a party's policies and not their leader. However, why not try talking to an old lady and hear what a lovely young man that Mr Blair is how she made sure he was voted into power and see if it changes your mind.

I personally have never voted Labour but I am just a minority!

ive never voted labour either though surely a partys manifesto is decided in general by whoever the leader is. i think brown is gonna have a tough time trying to crawl from under the stain blair has marked the country with; complete withdrawl from iraq is impossible, we need to move away from america without seeming to reject them and the real opposition now sits in the scottish parliament

There was a response the the 10 Downing Street regarding the inheritance Tax.

They basically said. Tax is unpopular, we know this but without it there would be no schools and no police, blah, blah yuck.

They missed the point of the petition that states THIS IS AN UNFAIR TAX. People who are caught by this have already paid Tax on the sums of money they accumulated and it is highly unjust to continue with it.

Lets take this into a new context. It is unjust to sack a woman who becomes pregnant. If employers started doing this then Government would be right on the moral high ground.