On 13/05/2010 5:29 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010 11:33:53 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>
>> On 13/05/2010 10:08 AM, andrel wrote:
>>> BTW did we already congratulate you on your new government?
>>
>> Thanks but I don’t know if congratulations are in order. ;-)
>
> Well, think of it this way - with Cameron as PM, he's got to make several
> unpopular decisions, and according to at least one pundit (I forget who),
> those decisions could well exclude that party from being in power for
> more than 5 years. (The article my wife read suggested that the winner
> wouldn't be in power for a generation after they got done).
>

I think that that was Mervyn King the Governor of the Bank of England. 
And your wife is correct about being out of power for a generation.

> So if you're not a fan of the Tories, this is a really good thing.
>

The 1st Duke of Wellington and the 2nd Earl Grey will be turning in 
their graves at the thought of the Whigs and Tories in coalition.

>>> And on the speed they formed one. Here it often takes months to form a
>>> government.
>>
>> But the world will stop turning if we don’t have a government, so the
>> politicians say. :-P
>
> Certainly their world will stop turning. ;-)
>

Especially if no one noticed.



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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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