11/05/2011 by TonyM.

I feel rather sad after the vote on AV. There was a chance to make this country more democratic but it got muddled up with Nick Cleggs current popularity. Also I am convinced that Cameron knew what he was doing in promoting the NO campaign the way he did, extremely underhanded and possibly illegal. I think that now the trust is broken with the coalition that the Lib Dems should leave and maybe let Cameron carry on with a minority and see how he likes things then. I have voted Lib Dem in many elections but this was the last, I am now going to vote Labour because under “first past the post” Lib Dems will have no chance at all (even though they sometimes get a third of the vote). Lib Dems main policy is/was voting reform, proportional representation, but I fear we will not see this in my lifetime, it was my main reason to vote Lib Dem.

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01/05/2011 by Dandy.

What an amazing spectacle the royal wedding was, we really do know how to do pageantry. People from all over the world could see our heritage and our ceremony and it has made me proud to be British.

What a shame that it was marred by one petty thing, that of the snub of our two latest Prime Ministers, what sort of message does that send to the world as a whole.

There were three reasons given for Tony Blaire’s non-invite. The first that he had written about William unfavourably in his book, which I have read and he only just slightly mentions anger over his mothers death, I think that I would feel the same in those circumstances. The other was over the Iraq war, and the Blair government were voted in for a third term after all of that, so they definitely had the mandate for that from the majority of the country. As for the third claim, about only those that hold the Royal Garter, that was just utter crap.

Probably the real reason was that Blair personally told the royals that they were unpopular over Diana’s death and that they had to acknowledge her by at least cutting short their holiday in Scotland. 

As far as I am concerned Tony Blair will go down in history as one of our greatest Prime Ministers, so I feel that the non-invite to the wedding was extremely shortsighted and actually made our country look rather stupid.

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