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UK General Election May 6; Tories lead in polls; chances of hung Parliament
Political leaders have headed off on the campaign trail after Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Tuesday the UK general election would be held on 6 May. He said he would seek a “clear” mandate to continue the “road to recovery”, as Labour bids for a fourth term. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules.....“It's the most important general election for a generation. It comes down to this. You don't have to put up with another five years of Gordon Brown.”....
Apr 07th, 2010 - 03:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0- LOL What an intelligent debate!
Where are the ideas??? These tories..... I don't see HOW they are gonna make that decliving country to grow again.
jorge !!
Apr 07th, 2010 - 07:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0UK Debt & Liabilities as -- 360 %-- of GDP
Quite amazing how we hang on to our AAA rating, now remind me, what was Argentina's credit rating ....... B wasn't it ??
Apr 07th, 2010 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse 02 gdr, you are right. They will bite the dust!!!!!
Apr 07th, 2010 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Of course, it doesn't really matter who wins our election ..... none of the political parties are prepared to discuss the issue of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands with Argentina .,... after all, there is nothing to discuss and no problem over sovereignty that requires any talks .... :-)
Apr 07th, 2010 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0gdr - “UK Debt & Liabilities as -- 360 %-- of GDP”
Apr 07th, 2010 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Where did you get that figure from?
world rank ( 6 ) ....AFGANISTAN ..budget deficit : 16.58 % GDP
Apr 13th, 2010 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0world rank ( 8 )....UK...budget deficit : 14.62 % GDP
world rank ( 154 ) ..ARGENTINA ..budget deficit : 1.39 % GDP
population below the poverty line ( %)
Apr 13th, 2010 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0world rank : (78 ) UK -- 14.19 %--
world rank : ( 79 ) ARGENTINA -- 13.70 % --
Ah wonderful, your country is poorer than my country type Arguements, where did you pull those figures GDR CIA world factbook? aren't those the same people who said there were WMD's in Iraq?
Apr 13th, 2010 - 11:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I tend to base gdr on how well a country is doing, by the infant mortality rate, if the infant mortality rate is very high it indictaes that the country is not investing in basic social care for it's population, either because it doesn't have the resources or has high levels of corruption.
lets compare Argentina and the UK then: UN population statistics UK: 4.8, position 22, Argentina 13.4, position 71.
And for added benefit Afghanistan, bottom of the league with 180.
Thats nearly 3 times as many deaths as the UK, somethings going on here? Money isn't going to where it's needed!...two outcomes exist, the Argentine government doesn't have the resources to invest in the health service, or the Argentine government has the money but corruption stops the money reaching where it is needed.
I think the answer lies somewhere in between for Argentina.
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