Who really thinks the new UK PM is going to leave Iraq and all that oil behind voluntarily?

[NNN0LHI]

Who would like to purchase a pre-owned bridge?

Don

[Kagemusha]

1. Who gave you the impression the UK was gonna get any of that oil?

I'll wait until I see proof of any such thing.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Great sarcasm

http://www.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/04/09/bp.reut/

BP maps out Iraq strategy

World's No. 3 oil company is getting ready to work on the world's second largest reserves of crude.

Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Posted: 2:04 AM EDT (0604 GMT)

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- British oil company BP PLC has put a team to work on a strategy for its future in oil-rich Iraq, people familiar with the situation said Tuesday.

The news follows a meeting in London at the weekend where Iraqi exiles and U.S. state department officials agreed that international oil firms should take a leading postwar role in reviving Iraq's oil industry.

Oil companies and the U.S. and British governments have been unwilling to talk openly about the future of the oil industry in Iraq.

They fear fueling accusations that the invasion of the country by U.S. and British troops was motivated by a desire to get western hands on the world's second largest reserves of crude.

But concerns are already growing among European companies that a U.S.-dominated postwar administration will give first bite of the Iraq oil cherry to its own companies.

In February this year, as war clouds gathered, BP Chief Executive John Browne voiced those concerns, saying: "The most important thing for us is that there remains a level playing field when it comes to consideration for activity in Iraq."

[Greeby]

2. I somehow think he wants to be elected more

The political observers who can read between the lines have stated that Broon will call a snap election in Spring 08 if the polls are going his way. And they're not gonna go his way unless he makes concrete steps to get out of Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

4. Do they actually have elections in Britain?

I thought the poodle just handed the job off to his buddy or something?

Seems to me if they actually had real elections in England this regime of thugs would have been gone long time ago.

Don

[LSdemocrat]

5. Yes, but the opposition parties aren't much in the way of alternatives

Britain does use all paper and pencil, hand counted ballots for all elections.

However, the opposition parties aren't much of an alternative to the current Labour party. The main opposition party, The Conservatives, if anything, are even more supportive of the war and, at the core, still pretty much the same as they were under Thatcher. The 3rd party of British politics, the Liberal Democrats, are solidly anti-war, but they don't really hold many other solid beliefs. Generally they change their views on the main issues of the day from left-wing, to centrist, to right-wing libertarian depending on what they think will get them votes at the next election.