Is the UK really going to put our basic security at risk by allowing men or women in burkas to go unchallenged through our towns and cities and  security lines?

Instead he talks as though knows what the current government should be doing!

I know what his record as Chancellor was. Spending money that the UK did not have! Borrowing more and more money to keep going!

They blamed the ‘global’ recession and ignored the fact that the UK suffered badly from the recession because Labour changed the way that the financial industry was regulated. The controls that would have prevented so much damage to the UK economy were no longer in place!

But my main criticism of the Brown/Darling Labour government is that they just kept borrowing money to keep the economy going.

It was clearly more important to them that they stayed in power even if it meant that the people of the UK were saddled with debts for the next twenty years!

They kept themselves in power at the expense of us all.

Subsequently I  am not interested in the opinions of Darling, Brown or any of the Labour ministers on what the Conservatives and Lib Dems  are doing!

In fact it would concern me if Brown or Darling agreed with the way the ConLib coalition were working to fix the UK economy from the consequences of 13 years of New Labour government!

Labour cannot claim that the crisis was caused by the banks system failures. If Labour had proper controls in place the banks would not have got into the mess that they did.

How could the Labour reply not include any acknowledgement that their term in government was the cause of the budget that they are attacking?

Labour cannot even claim that the crisis was caused by the banks system failures. If Labour had proper controls in place the banks would not have got into the mess that they did. Labour don’t have a right to complain about the new government fixing the economic mess that Labour made when they were in power.

The UK economy is in a very poor state yet if one had believed the last Labour government then everything was really OK. Brown emphasised his ‘prudence’ in dealing with the economy.

Yet we now find that the debts are more than anyone imaged, and the UK growth figures have been exaggerated.

Although Labour lost many seats, their share of the vote was higher than expected.

I do wonder how many people were misled by Labour emphasising that prudent Brown has the economy in control!! I know of some people who voted for Labour because Brown was seen as more competent to look after the economy.

Of course these people now know that Brown did not have the economy under control. They now know how much in debt Labour have plunged the UK into.

As far as I am concerned there should be very few people who will ever be able to trust a Labour government again!

Governments are supposed to serve the people, but New Labour do not seem to have considered the needs of the people at all!!

How could any minister sanction spending sprees at the end of their term in government when they knew how bad the debt situation was.

I would like to see an investigation into what happened in the last few months of the New Labour government. One reason why this is necessary is that several of these Labour ministers are trying to elected as the new Labour leader. We should know now whether they are fit and competent people to potentially be in government again!

These dinosaurs of economic thinking do not seem to understand that the UK simply does not have the money to spend on these high levels of public sector jobs and services.

All public sector jobs are paid for through the taxes of everyone in the UK.

Both Darling and ‘call me prudent Brown’ simply borrowed the money to pay for their public sector improvements.  Anyone who thinks that this practice could go on and on is not being sensible!

How Labour thought that they could get away with it is staggering! It was always going to end in a financial crash and/or the IMF coming in to run the economy (as has happened before with Labour in power!)

Labour, new or otherwise, have shown themselves to be unfit for government, especially whilst they have ministers from the Brown government in the Labour party!

There are even Labour supporters still saying that we must maintain the same level of spending on public services!!

These dinosaurs of economic thinking do not seem to understand that the UK simply does not have the money any more to spend on these high levels of public sector jobs and services.

All public sector jobs are paid for through the taxes of everyone in the UK. Both Darling and ‘call me prudent Brown’ simply borrowed the money to pay for their public sector improvements.

Anyone who thinks that this practice could go on and on is not being sensible! How Labour thought that they could get away with it is staggering!

It was always going to end in a financial crash and/or the IMF coming in to run the economy (as has happened before with Labour in power!)

Labour, new or otherwise, have shown themselves to be unfit for government, especially whilst they have ministers from the Brown government in the Labour party!

Many more have died since.  Even now, 25 years later,  there are many children still being born with birth defects every year.

The BP oil leak clearly fits into this category. It does look like BP may have finally got some control over the leak. It is not certain that the cap will seal the leak but it seems to have a good chance of working. It is of course a temporary measure and will allow time for the relief wells to by completed which is the permanent fix.

But the politics is interesting. Obama is getting a bad press on this issue. The American public is rightly very upset with the environmental disaster in their midst.

But I do accuse Obama and the American government and the American press of pure hypocrisy!! Remember the Union Carbide gas leak  in Mumbai in India in 1984?

The release of this gas killed 5,000 people that night and 15,000 more in the following few weeks!

This site has still not been cleared up after 23 years, and there are many children still being born with birth defects every year.

It would be good if this environmental disaster in America reminded the American public and Government that they have not yet dealt with the plight of thousands in Mumbai.

The Americans don’t like what has happened to them! Yet they don’t seem to care what an American company did in Mumbai!  It seems to be a case of ‘Hypocrisy Rules!‘.

I never heard Milliband saying that the invasion was wrong once he had become an MP. I never head Balls say publicly that Blair was wrong to go to war.

As a member of the cabinet Balls agreed 100% with Blair to invade Iraq.

Did I hear either of these people say that the invasion of Afghanistan was wrong? How many other Blair and Brown policies that so many people in the UK objected to, will now be disowned by these two ex-ministers? And if Labour ever win another election, will all these failed policies be resurrected?

Balls and Milliband must have known that the UK debt was so high that the country could end up needing the IMF to rescue it?

They must have understood that the people of the UK were going to have huge tax rises and massive cuts in services because of the Labour governments policies. Did they stand up for the people then?

This seems to be a case of ‘hypocricy rules’!!

This Labour leadership election with failed ex-cabinet ministers trying to become the party leader is just a bad joke. No one in the UK will trust these people again. If Labour want success then dump these losers and get some real, genuine people as Labour MPs!