HOW DARE THEY MAKE WARFARE LOOK KINDA SORTA NOT REALLY LIKE WARFARE BUT STILL INCLUDE VIOLENCEJabbawocky said:MY GOD! A game based on war and terroism violent?! Who would have every thought?
Yes, but nobody stood against him in the internal labour elections either, so he just kind of inherited the position. He genuinely was never elected.Amnestic said:Uh, no.Treblaine said:News flash: No one voted for our Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The government was voted in under Tony Blair then under inexplicable circumstances he was replaced by Gordon Brown. We are actually due for an election soon but - get this - Brown is delaying it. He can delay it as long as he can dare to.
That's not how it works. We elected the Labour Party, who elected Tony Blair as their leader. Tony Blair stepped down and the Labour Party (who we elected) then voted Gordon Brown in as their leader.
That's how it works, last I checked anyway.
Again, it was highlighted in glowing neon light before the election that this would be the case. As for the term, any parliament can call elections within 5 years, is just that most of them do it to the 4 year terms. Technically, if the MPs agreed, they could have elections every week. Tis the rules. If you don't like it, write to your MP and/or vote for a reformist party.Treblaine said:Yeah, MID-term. AFTER the election.Doug said:Bait and switch? Seriously? Who couldn't see that Blair was going to step down midterm? Seriously, every sodding news channel wouldn't shut up about it.Treblaine said:I know that is how it works but put it this way:Amnestic said:Uh, no.Treblaine said:News flash: No one voted for our Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The government was voted in under Tony Blair then under inexplicable circumstances he was replaced by Gordon Brown. We are actually due for an election soon but - get this - Brown is delaying it. He can delay it as long as he can dare to.
That's not how it works. We elected the Labour Party, who elected Tony Blair as their leader. Tony Blair stepped down and the Labour Party (who we elected) then voted Gordon Brown in as their leader.
That's how it works, last I checked anyway.
The Labour party would NEVER have won if it had been lead by Gordon Brown, it's a classic bait and switch.
The labour party we elected is now NOTHING like the one we have today. Brown was even obliged to hold an election after seizing power but he did not hold an election quite simply because:
HE KNEW HE WOULD LOSE.
He knew he had NO CHANCE with democracy or consent of the people so is clinging on to power as long as possible and dragging the country down with him.
Either way, I didn't vote Labour, so nevermind.
Bottom line, no one voted for any government led by Brown and from opinion polls it looks like no one ever will.
Which makes it all the more scandalous that the Prime Minister can delay their judgement by the medium of democracy simply because they know they will lose.
In fact almost every single UK government that delays an election has lost, it's just a mechanism to cling on to power and it only damages the country and bastardizes democracy.
Again, this isn't the government, its Keith Vaz, a slimmy shit of a man. He's going to have approximately zero effect on the game because everyone ignores his anti-gaming mongering - even the Sun can't be arsed to do a campaign about it, which just shows how unimportant he is.Cryo84R said:Why is this stuff so shocking to people?
You get a nanny state when you ask for one, no matter what country.
no no, most brits hate ALL of their goverment... its just spastics like this we hold up as examples...ziggybogidou said:Well, just that guy.Disaster Button said:I hate my Government, I really, really do.
Why does he make me think of a British Dick Cheny? Pretty sexy eh?WrongSprite said:http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/03/keithvaz.jpg
This, ladies and gentleman, is the awe inspiring force of nature intending to bring down MW2.
I don't think it's going to happen.