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Japan's prime minister Yukio Hatoyama falls on his sword

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  • 02-06-2010 9:02am
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    funnyname
    Registered Users Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭


    A politican with integrity, will the guys in the Dáil learn from this?
    Japan's prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, today said he would resign just eight months after he took office, after failing to honour election promises to bring sweeping change to domestic policy and fundamentally alter the country's relations with the US.

    The world's second biggest economy faces yet another period of uncertainty after Hatoyama, whose Democratic party won by a landslide last year, became Japan's fourth prime minister in as many years to step down after a year or less in power.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/02/japan-prime-minister-yukio-hatoyama-resigns


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    Biggins
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    funnyname wrote: »
    A politician with integrity, will the guys in the Dáil learn from this?

    I know your question is rhetorical - for the answer is sadly, daily with every failure, obvious.


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    mike65
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    I see what you did there!
    The German President also went after a "gaffe", David Laws went across the water without needing to be dragged to the podium.

    Ireland is different.


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    jmayo
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    Believe it or not this kind of thing actually has happened in Sweden where minister found to have employed illegal or some such and it has happened in the likes of Australia and NZ.

    Of course we are different and the locals reward the bast***s with re-election.

    We have no honour nor no shame it appears.
    As a few people often quote "we get the politicans we deserve".


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    BlaasForRafa
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    Like many a politician he made a promise that he just couldn't keep. As the op pointed out its a rare one that actually admits it openly and resigns, in Ireland most in that position seem to claw on like grim death till the end.


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    funnyname
    Registered Users Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭funnyname


    Trevor Sargent said he wouldn't lead the Greens into governement with FF so what does he do when the numbers add up, resigns as leader and then the way is clear for John Gormley to go into coalition with them.

    Is that integrity? I think we all know the answer to that one.


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    wes
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    Saw this earlier, and was surprised like so many above, of a politician who has resigned for failing to keep a campaign promise.


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    Nijmegen
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    Probably had something to do with the fact that his fellow party members demanded he leave owing to upcoming elections they have no hope in with him as party leader...


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    cavedave
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    Yukio Hatoyama is a mathematician (operations research a very applied branch of maths). The only other mathematician politician I know of is De Valera. Not that this is overly relevant but it is good to have a mix of skills amongst your politicians. Having the majority as lawyers and hereditary TD's is probably a bad idea.


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