Winners and Losers in the UK Election - Democratic Underground

mystieus

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Wed May-12-10 05:08 PM
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Winners and Losers in the UK Election

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3f-VVgg7uk

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Posted on DU: May 12, 2010
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For all his faults, I was struck by outgoing British Prime Minster Gordon Brown's resignation speech. It wasn't the pomp of the job he loved, he said, it was the chance to make his country a fairer place.

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muriel_volestrangler

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Wed May-12-10 05:50 PM
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1. Interesting to compare her to her sister, who's the BBC's economics editor

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8668488.stm (I don't know if that plays outside the UK or not; here's a clip from last year if it doesn't: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv1wK73NZ8Q )

Their accents are remarkably different.

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