Gordon Brown has proved on almost every measure that he has failed to govern the UK.
How can New Labour fight an election based on what Cameron ‘might do‘ when Brown has proved without dispute that he unable to govern the UK and has put us into recession and given us years of high taxes and reduced services to pay back the debts!
How badly does a labour leader have to perform before the Labour hierarchy decide that he (or she) cannot do the job? If Brown was a managing director of a company he would have gone a long time ago!
It astounds me that there is even a discussion about Gordon Brown being capable of running the country for the next five years. It is not as though he was simply unlucky with events completely outside of his control taking place around him.
Brown inherited a fantastic economy from the Conservatives. The ‘Golden Inheritance’ allowed Blair and Brown a wonderful opportunity and they totally failed to take advantage of it!
One of Brown’s early actions was to tax pension funds, so now most ordinary people will not be able to retire as expected, they will have to work for longer because their pension has been devalued.
Labour would point to new schools and new hospitals, but most of these would seem to have been built on borrowings – the PFI debt is huge and we still need to pay it back. I can only assume that the PFI debt levels are kept hidden from the public to protect the Labour government!
The British rail expansion/ rebuild is also on borrowed money. These two debts, and some others, are not even included in the UK debt level figures!
So how much debt is the UK in? Redefining the UK debt levels to exclude some large debts would seem to indicate that we are allowed to know!
There is one thing that is quite amusing with New Labour’s attempts to stay in power. They are continually claiming that Cameron would do worse running the UK than New Labour would. I don’t believe that anyone could do worse that Blair and Brown have done over the last 12 years!
