The last week I have been sick, and stayed home from school. So I have had enough time to watch the news! So for a change, the Norwegian news channels has started to show reportages about the UK election. Since the UK election will be relevant for our English exam this spring, I have been trying to get some information about it earlier this year, but not getting any luck. The Norwegian news shows just didn't show any interest for it, until now. Two weeks before the election.
Some of the topics that has been up in the media is how Gordon Brown revealed his real personality (some people might say), by forgetting to turn of his microphone after a conversation with one of his own voters. He did not speak nice about her, even though she just asked him about something that would be relevant for all the voters to know. The woman was shocked over what he said, and some people excused Gordon Brown by saying "he is just a normal person, and its too bad that that one time you speak bad behind someone's back, the whole nation is about to know it. Everyone makes mistakes, and its not like I've never said anything bad about some one". Something that is for sure, is the this only made Gordon Brown loose even more votes!
In an article on VG.no, I read about how Cameron is trying to get the last votes to win the election. Cameron and the conservative party, are on top of this election. The public opinion poll has so far showed the drastic change. So this morning Cameron announced plans about how he will rule the country the first days, if he wins the election. On one side, this provokes many people. At least Nick Clegg, saying : "Have you seen the papers this morning? David Cameron, with breathtaking arrogance, is already measuring up the curtains for No 10 before you have even voted, telling you what he's going to do with Britain when it's not for him to tell you what to do with this country, it's for you to tell us, the politicians, what kind of future you want."
An other article from dagbladet.no, it tells me about the question time, which they have as a part of their government. This was the last question time before the election. This time the prime minister suffers from David Cameron's attack. Cameron makes Brown apologize for not sending helicopters that worked, to the British forces in Afghanistan. He picks on him for something he said earlier, that the conservatives deceived business people. At the end of the question time, Brown looks rather melancholy.
Now its only three days away, and then we will know who's going to be the next prime minister. This election has taken a big surprising turn, and I am very excited to know who wins!
Me too, it will be exciting to see how this election turns out. I'm pretty sure that Nick Clegg will do well with the Liberal Democrats. The question is how many votes will they get? Will the conservatives get the majority they need? We will now soon enough!
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