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Posted by michael on September 25, 2009
So Gordon Brown is ‘Statesman of the Year’
It explains a lot. This award is going to embarrass him. It would seem to show where his priorities are!
We have been through a massive recession, which Brown, as prime minister should have foreseen and prepared us for.
He has obviously been more focused on global events than he has been on looking after the UK. No wonder he didn’t see the recession coming!
The UK is in recession, in deep financial trouble. It might show signs of coming out of recession now, but the UK now has such high debts that we all have to suffer tax increases and reduced services for years to come as a result.
Yet Gordon Brown was able to spend so much time on world events that he has got an award for it!
Brown cannot claim that he could do both jobs simply because of the deep financial mess that he has left us in.
His lack of time working for the UK has left us leadership through troubled financial times.
People are going to blame him, and New Labour, for abandoning the UK for his own personal ambitions.
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Posted by michael on June 8, 2009
I suspect that the result of the New Labour MPs meeting that is going on now is that the Labour MPs are going to support Brown!
They don’t really have a choice. Labour cannot have another unelected Leader. They would be crucified by the people of the UK if they tried that again!
So whatever they think of Brown, they are stuck with him!
They could leave Brown as PM and give some MPs the job of managing him, effectively a puppet leader with the real power behind the throne!
New Labour is a sham. The object was to pretend to the UK that New Labour was no longer a socialist party. The pretence was that New Labour embodied all the elements of the Conservative party policies whilst still retaining socialist values.
This sham, which could only work if it had a dynamic, charasmatic leader, was successful whilst Blair was personally holding the house of cards together. Managing the press and the news media was an important part of the pretence.
When Blair left (had he seen the inevitable collapse of ‘New’ Labour?) he passed control over to Brown without an election! This was the first mistake. The second mistake was that Brown is totally the wrong sort of person to replace Blair.
In my view Brown could never have replaced Blair. Now the country can see for themselves that New Labour is simply another manifestation of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
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Posted by michael on June 7, 2009
The New Labour vote has collapsed. Perhaps it is because Gordon Brown’s handling of the UK economy is so poor. The UK economy is in a terrible state, the consequences are going to have to be massive tax rises to pay for the incompetence of those running the country.
The recent elections have hit Labour hard. They blame the expenses row. But the Conservatives have done very well in both the local elections and the European election. So have the Libdems. So it cannot just be the expenses mess.
Perhaps people understand that New Labor and Gordon Brown are responsible for the expenses problems!
All the Labour people on TV and the radio seem to think that there is no competent person in the party who could do a better job than Brown who has actually got everything wrong. Perhaps they are right!
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Posted by michael on June 5, 2009
It is fascinating how quickly a government can fall apart.
Does it happen because of panic? Or betrayal by colleagues?
Suddenly many of the colleagues and friends(!) of Gordon Brown are coming into the public eye and telling us how bad he is and how he needs to go for the good of the country!
The background to all of this is Labour’s standing with the electorate. I don’t know why there are no poll forecasts this time, but the initial official poll results seem to show some sort of Labour meltdown.
Labour would of course have taken their own polls. These must have shown that the Labour vote was collapsing which is why people are panicking. The government ministers who have resigned over the last few days have done so presumably because these poll results have been so poor!
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Posted by michael on June 4, 2009
Well, well, well! The honourable members of the New Labour party are behaving very much like the Old Labour party. Perhaps that little word ‘New’ was only added to to make Labour acceptable to more voters – the same people, the same politics but a different image!
Looks like a plan, a well worked out plan, by the colleagues of the Prime Minister to turf him out.
So will that mean that another, un-elected leader of Labour is going to appear and run the country without a mandate!
I don’t think that the UK electorate would stand for that. They will want an election not a new leader.
Who says politics is boring? How can people not be interested in on-going collapse of New Labour?
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Posted by michael on June 3, 2009
One wonders whether Brown’s cheesy grins are in direct proportion to the desperation he feels!
I have never seen him try to smile so much!!
There is this continual clash between Brown and Cameron with the PM insisting that Cameron announces Conservative policies for the UK; as though the leader of the opposition is in a position to implement their policies!
Brown appears to believe that he can pursuade people that Cameron’s silence mean that he has no policies. But most people would acknowledge that the Conservative policies, of which I am sure they would have spent a lot of time on, are not relevant simply because the Conservatives are not in power yet.
Invoking a discussion about the Conservatives policies during PMQs would take the pressure off Brown and the disasterous state of the UK economy.
So Cameron is right to stay quiet and keep the focus on Brown and the collapse of the UK economy after 12 years of New Labour.
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Posted by michael on May 31, 2009
Just watched Brown on the Andrew Marr program.
I cannot see any acknowledgment that he has been prime minister for several years and, prior to that, the chancellor. He has been in power and in very influential positions for twelve years now.
There is no acknowldgment that any of the problems facing the UK now are his fault or his responsibility. It is a ‘global’ recession, yet the UK government failed to regulate the financial industry to prevent them going out of control.
We are in a deeper recession than almost every other nation on the planet because of our huge debt levels, much of it not even included in the debt figures!
The government is spending a fortune in war against other nations.
The government has failed to control immigration and illegal immigrants to the UK.
There is a long list of failed computer systems, all wasting millions of pounds.
Yet Brown does not seem to accept any problems as being his fault!
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Posted by michael on May 28, 2009
This is a story in the Mail, read it yourself to see the details. But I am getting more and more concerned about the level of petty bureaucracy that is beginning to control all aspects of our daily lives. We now seem to have groups of people who preying on everyone else, looking continuously to catch people who have broken the rules! But there are now so many rules it is almost impossible to avoid breaking some some of them!!!. For example the act of dropping a piece of paper can get a person a fine even though they immediately pick up the paper. Effectively we are being fined for the act of dropping something even if it was not deliberate and we pick it up immediately. During the second world war there was only one Hitler. Now in a so-called free society we have hundreds of them!
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Posted by michael on May 28, 2009
The Government hasn’t got any money!! It has spent it all over the years and we now have huge debts that will take many years to pay off from extra taxes on our incomes! There has to come a point where the government has to come clean and admit that it cannot afford to subsidise everyone who needs it. Of course they could abandon schemes such as the ID cards and some of the other hugely expensive computer systems that they are planning! We cannot spend money that we do not have!
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Posted by michael on May 9, 2009
When ‘Fred the Shred’ got his company pension when the bank he managed almost collapsed from huge debts, Gordon Brown promised that ‘he would not keep his pension’.
Not only has Sir Fred Goodwin still got his pension, but the bank is still promising huge bonuses to certain staff (according to the Mail – may 9th).
Now the government, acting as our agent, holds 70% of the shares. Yet they seem totally incapable of managing to do what they said that they wanted to do!
Is this just another example of the incompetence of this government?
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