why does the Labour win again?
437856
because in the end, the labor controls everything.
819799
Well, now that the Democrats are doing fairly well, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the machines anymore.  What a coincidence!!  Just wait though, if they lose, they will have to blame it on something or somebody else though.  Its how they roll.
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Saani is basically correct.\n\nI believe that the issue is not just of finding someone to control the Labour factions, but rather to invest a few years in destroying the factions and rebuilding something new.\n\nIf the horse is wild, unpredictable and throws the jockey constantly...you dont need a better jockey, you need a new horse.\n\nFactionalism in The ALP is primitive and a left over from a time when politcs was secretive and a mystery to all but the faithful.\n\nTodays generation just wont stand for it.  If they cant understand the "mechanism", they just wont trust you enough to vote for you.\n\nChanging technology such as the internet has brought an immediacy and transparency into the political forum for all parties...but for Labour its almost "MASONIC like" secrecy and foundation upon a myriad of smaller parties leaves it vulnerable and weak.\n\nGod help the Country if if Librals make a mistake and loose an election and Labour think they have won the lottery without cleaning up their act first.
748809
Hard to predict, but i'd go for a hung parliment with the liberals holding the balance. Outright, i'd say labour would have the majorty.
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They are already using the "Diebold (maker of the new touch screen machines)won a no bid contract from the government so they are corrupted by the conservatives" excuse. Watch, if they lose it will be because of the machines. It can't possibly be because they really are too stupid to vote correctly.
723424
Bad luck, sometimes a lack of desire to win, bad managerial decisions and a bit of cheating has stopped us winning.\nThe current side is probably the best that we've ever had. But the other sides have improved too.
825523
I asked a similar question yesterday and completly agree with everything you say - it really does defy belief.\n\nPlus, what sort of messege does this send? e.g. its ok to take drugs, kill someone and go to prison because when you get there you can either carry on taking drugs living in luxery at the taxpayers expense or sue the state and win loads of cash.\n\nEnough is enough - this government is a complete farce and really has lost the plot, my vote will be going elsewhere (anywhere in fact that is not Labour) at the next election. I hope others do the same.
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Well now hear this from one old man lmao. \nAt one time the Democrats were for the working people, and the working people knew it.\nBut somewhere along the line they drifted off in a direction that leads them to not helping working class anymore but helping with the programs that only few can get.\nJust look at all there programs out there that the Democrats have make in all the past years and please tell me one that a working man or woman can get on.\nYes we need to help the poor but we do not need to have them lead us.\n\nSo I say the silent majority will win again, cause most of us are now Republicans.
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Tony Blair will step down nexy year.Elections are in 2009/2010 so it is too early to predict who will win.\nDavid Cameron has shown nothing to say why people should vote for him.\n\nTony Blair  is history .Brown or even Smith may lead Labour so hard to say now
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it is on the ballots i've filled in\n\nif none of the above wins the ballot the election is re-opened to new candidates
1010623
You ask because they will win for 3rd time the trophy?\n\nNothing. Trophy is now perpetual.
610393
Local council elections were yesterday with vote counting last night. The Conservatives won both the largest share of the vote and the largest number of net seats.\n\nThe BBC has good coverage on this:\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk_politics/2006/election_2006/default.stm
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The fact that the Labour Party supported the CND means nothing,that was yesterday. Politicians have no principles they would sell their mothers and your mother also. Like the war in Iraq what's in it for Bliar,Brown and the rest?.Thanks to Bliar and Brown's support for the war when Bliar finally goes he will have a licence to print money in the USA with of course the support of the Bush Family. No doubt Brown has his own agenda for enrichment of himself, sadly none of their real reasons will come out for many years they'll see to that. So much for the Freedom of Information Act
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They can't - in order to focus on the reasons for the protest votes, the Labour party would have to face up to the fact that, today, they are *not* a Labour party. When the Tories sound further left than Labour half the time, things have gotten very bad indeed. \n\nLabour's target voting block are caught between a rock and a hard place - they won't vote Lib Dem because of the intellectual image, and they won't vote Tory because they'd prefer not to be chopped up for firewood, which only leaves a protest vote. The most effective protest vote in modern Britain is for the most backward, reactionary load of bigots available. \n\nThere are days when Blair and Brown do seem to be singing from a red hymn sheet, and one cannot help but wonder why they don't sound like that *every* day. If they did, not only would the protest votes cease but most of the opposition to boot.
847216
Come on now, don't you understand it's only rigged if they lose. It went flawlessly this time, silly. SARCASM.
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G'day Mitch and Laura,\n\nThanks for your question.\n\nI have been an active member of the Liberal Party and I am certainly not discounting Labor's chances in the election. I can assure you John Howard isn't either.\n\nAustralian Federal elections are traditionally pretty tight. Labor needs 4.8% to win with Dobell on the central coast as the benchmark seat. Interestingly, the Prime Minister's seat Bennelong is one of the 16 seats Labor needs so he certainly won't be sitting on his laurels. The coalition had a similar margin in 1998 and Kim Beazley nearly won then. Labor are doing pretty well in the polls so they are certainly in it with a show.\n\nKim Beazley is almost certain to be the leader at the next election. In my view, he will need to start telling people what he stands for soon as his "small target" strategy failed in the past. In 2001, he had to go around telling people what he stood for because people didn't know. He needs to stop being so negative about everything the government does.\n\nHowever, the Labor Party has a good chance of winning in 2007. I believe that the Coalition does too but we certainly aren't a lay down misere.\n\nI have attached sources for your reference.\n\nRegards
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People are f**king stupid.  Personally I have NEVER voted for labour, I always knew they were ball licking, scum bags.  I was just 10 years ahead of the majority I guess.  I don't necessarily blame them for Iraq though, the best intellegence from all spy agencies (not just the CIA) said Saddam had WMD and he had used them before, and he barred anyone from verifying he didn't.  But their pissy pants policies on crime are disgusting, there was an actual study that was carried out, giving some A level students tests from 15 years ago, and 45% failed, 45% did significantly worse, but passed, and 10% equaled or bettered their current grade.  So yes the dumbing down of the education system diabolical.  Speed cameras, well anyone who has robbed or attacked knows the cops are useless, lazy, wan**rs.  I mean what do you need to be a cop a grade 10 education and a bad moustache?  Not much more anyway.  PC has always been a joke, but the past 10 years have brought it to new heights of idiocy.  Hopefully, we will get a change, but NOT GORDON TAX YOU TILL YOU DIE, THEN TAX YOU AGAIN, BROWN.  Unfortunatly, I don't know if David hug a hoodie Cameron will do much better.\n\nJoesph M: You failed to mention with this great standard of living we have, we also carry the largest personal per capita, in the world, an increase of 50% in bankrupcy, and all those people that over extended buying that lovely house that they own at 3% interest, now 4.75% an set to increase more, the government false economics look good on paper, but the bubble is going to burst, and when it does, then we'll see how fantastic the standard of living is.