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Britain Follows Canada?

By The Daily Dish
May 6 2006, 2:50 AM ET

This email strikes me as on the money:

I've taken to listening to BBC radio 4 podcasts. What is interesting is the comparison between England and Canada. Canada had a fiscally-responsible centrist party running the show for a decade or more under Cretien. They starting getting lazy and corrupt. Cretien stayed on power two years too long and his finance-minister successor was heading a party that "needed to lose". The Conservatives managed to rebrand themselves as a center-right rather than right party and now Stephen Harper is Canada's Conservative PM.
Blair and his party have gotten lazy (no corruption like the Liberal corruption in Canada) and Blair is staying too long. The Chancellor who will succeed him is losing his time to undo the laziness in the party. By the time he gets power Labour will "need to lose". Cameron is rebranding the Tories as a center-right party.
Prediction based on Canada: Brown's Labour will form an unstable minority government after the next election and will then lose after a year or so when Cameron will win a small majority/large minority.



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