Posted on 05/06/2010 5:44:17 PM PDT by mgstarr
Tories gain Kingswood, target 135, as indications suggest a large swing from Labour; anger as voters turned away from polls.
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It’s 2am. Does the count go on all night, or is this a three day thing?
It’ll be done by morning, supposedly
Margaret Thatcher’s elevation to Prime Minister in 1979 was the first sign, for me, of hope during a most depressing time. The press here in America had not so much as mentioned her name before he election to high office, which only made it seem more sudden and shocking when she began to be heard publicly, a down-the-line conservative who made no apologies and took no grief from anyone.
Let this story be the same sort of harbinger for us, 31 years later.
I’m assuming you are from England! What is the atmosphere like there right now?Hopeful? My grandparents came from England....The Cotswold area...
Such a beautiful region, I really love that area.
My hubby is a Brit.....and a lib. He blames EVERYTHING on Thatcher.....just like you hear ‘Bush bashing’. I just grin....’cause I know better. ;-)
Good luck with that Steely Tom. I hope it comes to pass.
I have never been, CT!
Oh how I would love to go visit though....The photos I have seen show a lovely scenic place!!
I remember my excitement when Maggie was first elected - led to my excitement and work for Reagan in 1980.
Ahhhh yes. I do miss "The Iron Lady."
Good-bye Gordo Brown and take Labour with you.
I have family there and all labour voters until today, everyone one of them either voted BNP or conservative
more and more are turning to the right after the left got them into such a mess, shame we had millions star stuck on their messiah and the pathetic corrupt media
I’m one too and I know about maggie and she was great, she broke the unions especially scargill and the miners and that is why most hate her , well that and the likes of the BBC lying as usual.
What a time that was. Thatcher, then Reagan, the culmination of a never-before-seen (in many years) nation-wide prolonged corporate intercessory prayer in many churches for this country and the world. God answered those prayers with this really pretty miraculous time with people like Jeanne Kirkpatrick in the U.N. also.
I hope our prayers now can avail like that now, but with an added end of abortion-infanticide.
we have a song in the UK and it goes like this
you can stick your labour party up your arse
you can stick your labour party up your arse
you can stick your ;labour party
stcik your labout party
stick your labour party up your lefty arse
you have to know the tune to sing it but I’m singing it here
That’s exactly why he hates her. The miners.
You could always dump him and move in with me. :)
I live in MA so you might want to think about it.
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