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Should Gordon Brown call a March election?

  • 66% are saying yes
  • 34% are saying no

comments from readers

npgdavies
17 December 2009
yes

The sooner the better

Tonypro
23 December 2009
yes

He needs to put the Tory's on the back foot and also use TV debates between his ministers of state and the Opposition equivalents to expose their policies before the election.

doveo
23 December 2009
yes

If he had done this in Sept 2007 he would have been much more popular

terence patrick hewett
30 December 2009
yes

We are sharpening our pruning shears. And the longer they leave it, the sharper they get.

psychometrica
30 December 2009
no

Tories will self destruct, give them time, they have no substance.

mrandyc
30 December 2009
yes

I want to get it over with so I don't have to hear Cameron say 'Change' one more time.

Julian Ware-Lane
30 December 2009
no

I believe in fixed-termed Parliaments, so Gordon should wait until May.

Protagonista
02 January 2010
no

The government needs to reposition itself before going into an election and a possible Tory initiated economic meltdown through their ineptness, the stakes are too high.

Belinda
03 January 2010
yes

The longer the delay, the more time there is for more Labour lies and spin.

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