Well this is my last word on the election – for now!!!
This isn't really a coalition government in Britain; a coalition would be made up of the three parties as it was in World War II; this is a pact between two of the parties – the most popular of the three main parties and the least popular.
This isn't really a coalition government in Britain; a coalition would be made up of the three parties as it was in World War II; this is a pact between two of the parties – the most popular of the three main parties and the least popular.
If it was truly representative of what the British population wanted it would be made up of Conservative and Labour and then truly truly representative it would be a coalition of the three.
Then you would have in the cabinet the best people for each job and maybe the chancellor of the exchequer would be Gordon Brown – who knows?
Labour in the last thirteen years had quite a few faults but it did redistribute tax credits, double the spending on the National Health Service and introduce a minimum wage; so it wasn't all bad, you know.
The Liberal Democrats in their manifesto said they would keep everybody earning under £10,000 per year out of the tax bracket and the Conservatives in theirs said they would abolish inheritance tax under £1,000,000 – I think I heard they were going to abolish it altogether but I'm not going to do any research as I've read enough about them – but isn't it easy to see where each parties priorities are?
What I don't like is that within days they are advocating a referendum to change the voting system and hidden in there is to have fixed terms; like in America. The one strong thing about the British voting system is that you can get the buggers out if they lose a vote of confidence in the commons.
Will they still have the vote of confidence option?
So that's my last word for the moment.
Where I really should be at the moment is at the Cannes Films Festival; I have been four times to Cannes and look – there I am at the top of the page with black hair - well blackish with some streaks - in those days; the guy on the right facing the camera is the famous guitarist Vic Flick who played the guitar on the original recording of the James Bond theme; we were on our way from Cannes to a picnic on Ile Sainte-Marguerite a half a mile boat ride to the island in the sun;
Labour in the last thirteen years had quite a few faults but it did redistribute tax credits, double the spending on the National Health Service and introduce a minimum wage; so it wasn't all bad, you know.
The Liberal Democrats in their manifesto said they would keep everybody earning under £10,000 per year out of the tax bracket and the Conservatives in theirs said they would abolish inheritance tax under £1,000,000 – I think I heard they were going to abolish it altogether but I'm not going to do any research as I've read enough about them – but isn't it easy to see where each parties priorities are?
What I don't like is that within days they are advocating a referendum to change the voting system and hidden in there is to have fixed terms; like in America. The one strong thing about the British voting system is that you can get the buggers out if they lose a vote of confidence in the commons.
Will they still have the vote of confidence option?
So that's my last word for the moment.
Where I really should be at the moment is at the Cannes Films Festival; I have been four times to Cannes and look – there I am at the top of the page with black hair - well blackish with some streaks - in those days; the guy on the right facing the camera is the famous guitarist Vic Flick who played the guitar on the original recording of the James Bond theme; we were on our way from Cannes to a picnic on Ile Sainte-Marguerite a half a mile boat ride to the island in the sun;
the island (just above) is famous for its fortress prison (the Fort Royal), in which the so-called Man in the Iron Mask was held in the 17th century.What you can't see, between me and Vick, are many cans of beer and food; when we got there we had a great picnic and even left some beer buried in the sea to keep cool as one of the party was returning the next day; hard life for some.
So it's back on with the novel writing – I'm also going to start to adapt my first novel into a screenplay and then make a film of it; it will probably be my life's work and might involve more trips to Cannes and I leave you today with a few up to date photos of what's happening in Cannes now; will my wife let me go? Comments welcomed.
Hi Chris Methinks you may have given 'er indoors the opportunity to let you go off to Cannes and for her to do a runner with your well gotten loot [and the Volvo]! Oh foolish boy!!
ReplyDeletegreat chris i enjoy reading your writing,its entertaining, love the zombies lol, everyone i know hates this government, yeah they keep saying its a coalition first in 60 odd years but in reality there was the alliance in 74 i think it was with Ted (3 day week) Heath and Jeremy (my boyfriend shot my dog ) Thorpe, lib con again, we dont learn do we lol, enjoy your self in cannes
ReplyDeleteps/ the vote of confidence or no confidence is still there but they raised it to 55% from 50% labour has 47% torys 53% lib tory makes 55% were lib labour would only be 53%, so labour would not be able even with help get the torys out so its 5 yrs till next election :( they already spent 10 billion apparently to create the alliance, after brown got us out of the resection they put us straight back in
ReplyDeleteNo Ted Heath was ousted and Wilson moved in to number 10 and had another election the same year - 1974.
ReplyDeletethis from Wiki:
In March 1977 the Labour Government with no overall majority faced a motion of no confidence, in order to remain in office Prime Minister Jim Callaghan approached the Liberal Party under the leadership of David Steel. An agreement was negotiated under the terms of which the Labour Party accepted a limited number of Liberal Party policy proposals and in exchange the Liberal Party agreed to vote with the government in any subsequent motion of no confidence. While this 'pact' was the only official bi-party agreement since the second world war (until the Conservative – Lib Dem coalition following the 2010 election) it fell far short of a coalition. The Lib–Lab Pact concluded by mutual consent in July 1978.