08/05/06 13:48:33 nOmLEJov0
>>826-827
I'm just happy that Labour are failing. My local area, however, had
no elections, but if they did, I'd have voted for Liberal Democrats.
I'm also happy that Boris Johnson was voted as the new Mayor of London.
>>828
Increasing dissatisfaction with Gordon Brown's government is the main
reason people are voting elsewhere. It's just been error after error,
with the latest being the abolition of the 10p range of income tax (before,
people who earned less than around £15,000 only had to pay 10% income tax -
now they're in the 20% range). This made a lot of people unhappy, despite
getting increased tax credit, especially after he spent so long defending
the choice, only to admit error in the end. We didn't even vote him in. He
assumed office as Prime Minister only after Blair stepped down.
British publications aren't really paying much attention to the BNP.
>>832
Yes, some people do. One of my mothers' friends often says it, anyway.
Some say the origin of this is from a book called 'The Vermilion Box', by
E.V. Lucas, which mentions "Donkey's Ears", as a sort of rhyming slang for
'years and years'.