Petition: Don't hold an Election Until 2010

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Not Hold a General election before 2010".

"In order to have the time to fully implement its manifesto commitments and fulfil its electoral mandate the Prime Minister should consider waiting until 2010 before holding a general election".

In response to Tory spam on my blog (and others) to sign the Petition at the 10 Downing Street site calling for a “general election in 2007”, I have created the above petition. It was rejected once for being “political” and having “duplicates” so I have had to change it. It was approved this afternoon and so far it has one signature on it – Me!

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/GenElection2010/

and the answer to the question is no, I haven’t got anything better to do…..



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Re: Petition: Don't hold an Election Until 2010 (#1)

I'd prefer June 2009 to be honest!

Re: Petition: Don't hold an Election Until 2010 (#2)

So would I. No good looking like we were holding out to the bitter end.

Re: Petition: Don't hold an Election Until 2010 (#3)

Under the current system, I think it is right that it is a matter for the PM and the Cabinet to decide when to go to the country. To paraphrase "three years is a long time in politics".
 
In the interest of true democracy, though, I firmly believe that the sooner we moved to a fixed term government the better. In my view, nothing concentrates the mind more than a deadline. If a government knows they have only four (or five) years in which to deliver on it's manifesto, it will knuckle down to the task with some eagerness.
 

Re: Petition: Don't hold an Election Until 2010 (#4)

Anyonr remember "cycle of Elections" another one of the good New Labour ideas the civil service stymied with the help of the numpties Blair employed.