Are the Conservatives doomed?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Depends on your point of view.

[monolith94]

All I know about the subject is what I learned from Withnail & I.

[FredKarno]

this sceptred isle

To beleive anything that the pathological liar Tony(Britain is a young country) Blair says is foolish to an extreme degree.
This ship of fools has the politician at the helm that the awful people in it desearve. He has it all. Of course the real Tories are doomed. The soviets failed in creating the new man. How strange that all the while he(she, it) was being formed here!
Of course the tories are doomed. Witness their latest heap of horror - this attempt at proving how hip they are by various higher-up persons of them displaying their love of ****e 'music'. At this rate they will be saying how much they love the Damien Hirsts and Tracy Emminnins (howeaver the tart's name is spelt). Court they the evil perverts in vain. Their foolishness is revolting. They are not Tories! To hell with them and everyone else in this land of infinite uglyness.

[Provost Harrison]

We love you too!

[Zulu Elephant]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
A question: Should Labour retain it's majority, how likely is it that whoever replace Blair will have similar foreign policy views to Blair? Is it likely Blair's replacement would be someone anti-US and Pro-France/Germany?

The British establishment doesn't do anti-Americanism. Whitehall loves/needs access to American intelligence too much. We wont be having an anti-American PM for quite some time.

As for being pro-France/Germany, Blair and Heath are the only two really pro-European Prime Ministers we've had in the post-war period. Its hard to see someone more pro-European than Blair getting elected.

Doesn't look like Blair is going anywhere quite yet...

Don't you believe it. Despite his announcemnt to serve a full term, he'll be gone in three years (well, maybe that's not SOON, but it's SOONER than he says). The electorate can't stomach three terms of anyone - even Thatcher didn't last that long.

[Standup]

I've often thought it would be interesting to have an abstain box. This would allow you to make a protest rather than not voting or spoiling. If you don't vote it's likely to be assumed that you can't be bothered rather than you don't agree with any of the candidates.

PR would solve this but i'm not sure the turnout in Scotland has been any higher than under first past the post.