Twenty Years of Spending Cuts and Increased Taxes

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Don't panic ... our politicians are on the case now ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters ... _hell.html

[Beachcomber]

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and strong leaders. I can't say I rank any of our recent PMs as having as much as half the balls that Maggie had. Spitting Image may have mocked her by showing her using a urinal but they knew what they were talking about.

NONE of our PMs since Thatcher (regardless of rosette colour) have had anything like the strength of character she had.

Like her or loath her, given a situation such as the Falklands Crisis, who would you rather have had at the helm? Damp-palm Blair or Ditherer Brown? I'm not even going to bother with Major.

The next few years are going to be particularly tough for the UK and we need a PM who will stand up for us in Europe and across the world without pandering to the US's imperial ambitions. The only person who seems to come close at the moment is Ken Clarke.

[bill]

As you say beachcomber,desperate times call for desperate measures, and strong leaders.

Unfortunately we have not had a strong leader at number 10 since the demise of Mrs Thatcher.The only hope is that Cameron can step up to the plate,but like Thatcher,he will be harnessed with the failures of the previous goverment.

The biggest "what if" in latter day British politics has to be the death of John Smith.He was regarded as a man of integrity , decent and honest, with a reputation as a moderate.Imagine 10years of him as PM instead of Blair.