Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for nine years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
The views expressed here are mine in a personal capacity, not those of the Labour Party, Sandwell MBC, Aston Villa or Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Get it! Mine... just mine!
May 2010 will be going right to the wire, as Sunny Jim did in '79, and it doesn't leave any wriggle room, but John Major won in '92 as a 'new' Prime Minister in an old government.
You pays yer money and takes yer choice... but Kauto Star in the Gold Cup looks a safer bet than both options to me.
I think you must mean June 2009 which was my banker until last autumn's shall we, shan't we fiasco. It would probably mean three elections on one day for many people (local + Europe + general) and I'm not sure that the shall we, shan't we brigade could decide whether that was a good thing or a bad thing in time - they've only got 14 months to ponder! So Mr K may well be correct...
March 13, 2008 1:24 PM | permalink
I think you must mean June 2009 which was my banker until last autumn's shall we, shan't we fiasco. It would probably mean three elections on one day for many people (local + Europe + general) and I'm not sure that the shall we, shan't we brigade could decide whether that was a good thing or a bad thing in time - they've only got 14 months to ponder! So Mr K may well be correct...