Man in a Shed: Will Labour try to fix the next election ?

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Will Labour try to fix the next election ?

The stalinist sounding "National ~~socialist~~ council for democratic renewal" apparently meets today, according to banana man on R4 this morning whilst he was try to pass of being a total wimp and putting his own career ahead of the country's interests.

Its a very Brownian type idea - like the citizens juries Labour used tax payers money to bribe people to turn up to.

Brown's underlying problem is people who disagree with him. Which makes negotiating with the opposition a complete non starter ( evidence the shouting of Brown at Cameron over MPs expenses that was so bad that Clegg had to end the meeting ).

Lets be clear this council is Brown's idea and has one selfish tactical aim - more Labour MPs after the next election, and less Conservative.

That amounts to fixing an election - we will no longer be a democratic country if any change to our electoral system is made before a referendum after the next election.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Looks like he may try we will soon find out as he plans electoral reforms before the next general election. This Brown we are talking about so theres no doubt self intrest involved.; 12:23 pm

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