Says the bloke who thinks cutting education and school refurbishment programs is a good idea.

Its Tory supporters that don't live in the real word. Who think that slash and burn is a good idea.

Hull FC thread on this, 6 pages. Hull KR thread, 2 pages.

And some people on here have the cheek to say they are obsessed.

Thats exactly the sort of comment that lost labour the election, old arguments for the sake of it!!

anyway this thread is all very rugby isnt it!!!
we have amalgamated a singing loudness thread, a political thread and so many others i have lost count , but is all heading towards a my dads bigger than yours thread..

The end of the day HKR would not get a penny even if everyone in the UK signed their petition because the council would have to get that ammount signed off in London and that aint gonna happen!!

Well my Dad is bigger than their's

And our coach is better than their's...and our team are better than theirs...and our stadium is better than theirs

Labour are no longer in power because the public, myself included (who didn't vote Labour) are largely against the war. That and its difficult for any Goverment to survive a worldwide recession.

BTW, to loose, doesn't somebody have to win?

So they voted for the Tories and Lib Dems who supported the labour government at the time, when the decision was taken to enter Iraq and then ultimately on to Afghanistan

Go down the street, and ask 100 average Joes if they know that.

How many times have you heard the war refered to, not as a govermental mistake, or a politcal one, but as "Tony's" - how many posters were they of TB as a poddle?

Bit of a sweeping generalisation that mate...

Maybe unemployment, schooling, NHS had a bearing on people's decisions who they voted for.

Its deliberately a generalisation. Those points were definitely considerations for people, but IMO, the war and the recession were the two [imajor [/i (or put another way, "largely"icon_wink.gif issues for Labour in the last election.

And unemployment particularly hasn't been helped by said recession, in which ironically the UK performed very well in. Just behind Canada in second place I believe of the "G" nations.

And Labour, through programs like BSF which the Tories have just put the sword too, were trying to improve schools while maintaining jobs in the infrastructure industry.

Correct, no one wants wars but someone has to deal with these things as usual the same faces, as for the worldwide economic issues its true few parties would survive such aa collapse but especially wwhen the labour party were generally regarded as one of the instigators of the whole thing in the first place!!

and Gordon brown himself was the worst possible public figure you could have ever have imagined ... a very senior party member ( who lives very close to Hull) said in conversation a wee while ago at a function on my table " if tony blair had been a pirate he could have walked the plank and never hit any water on the way down" he knew the right time to jump off the ship thats for sure!!"

I think we cut this here. It was lucky to have got going in the first place as it's about Rovers and not Hull but now it has gone into politics too.

Rovers board for their issues and the Sin Bin for politics.

Cheers.