Re: Paxman and Mr Brown
Originally Posted by
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Have a browse through all the currencies over the years from 1997 'till 2008 and tell me again Brown's an idiot.
No-one, well me, is not saying that Brown was a reasonable chancellor but I found Brown, like his mate Jack Straw who I know personally, to be dishonest and two faced, as shown by Bigotgate.
Gordon Brown started the election campaign by claiming he will 'fight for Britain '. Isn't this the same Gordon Brown who prevented us having a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty which handed over control of Britain to our friends in Brussels? Gordon Brown who was apparently so embarrassed at his Lisbon Treaty sell-out that he avoided having his photo taken with the other EU leaders at the signing ceremony?
Brown's commitment that his prudent economic management would put an end to what he called 'Tory boom and bust'. This was repeated time and time again in the House of Commons and innumerable times in media interviews. For fairly obvious reasons, our PM doesn't mention this any more.
Brown's repeated pledge that he would provide British troops with the proper equipment. In one parliamentary questions time, our prime minister tried to weasel-word his way out of trouble by insisting that the deaths of several soldiers on foot patrol the previous weekend had nothing to do with a lack of helicopters. Given that they were on foot patrol, it was fairly obvious their deaths could not be blamed on insufficient helicopters. However in making this statement, Brown seemed to forget that the deaths of over a hundred British soldiers killed by roadside bombs could have been avoided had more helicopters been available.
His commitment to 'British jobs for British workers'. This was a promise he never had any way of fulfilling. Firstly because anyone from the other twenty six EU countries could come and go at will. And his government's deliberate policy of swamping us with almost uncontrolled immigration has led to British workers finding their jobs being taken by new arrivals willing to work for less money.
Brown recently told us, 'The first thing we've got to do is to clean up politics once and for all'. Since then, he's been doing all he can to protect his own thieving ministers and to avoid any reforms of MPs' expenses. They weren't even mentioned in the latest Queen's Speech. He has also allowed his labour MP's to get legal aid to fight their court cases.
As a condition for putting taxpayers' money into banks, we must also take action to end the old short-term bonus culture'. Given that our bankers are currently awarding themselves a bonus tsunami paid for with our money, it seems this promise too was just sound with no substance.
For the first two years of his chancellorship, Brown kept to his manifesto pledge to hold spending at the level proposed by the previous (Tory) government and was able to repay some of our national debt as tax revenues exceeded public spending. But from 2000 onwards he really let rip, doubling public spending and dishing out more every year than the government collected in tax. So, each year our debt levels shot up leaving us hopelessly exposed when the recession hit and tax revenues collapsed.
Brown pledged to give Britain of full employment within our generation'. Over 2.7 million people are out of work and another 2.5 million are on disability benefits - the highest rate of supposedly disabled people in the western world.
His commitment to provide training or a job for every young person which has curiously resulted in Britain having the highest level of NEETS (young people not in education, employment or training) in our history.
His promise to reduce bureaucracy in the NHS so that more money could go to frontline services. This has given us a doubling in the number of managers from 20,000 to 40,000 so we now have more managers than medical consultants (39,000). Moreover, we have lost so many hospital beds that when New Labour were first elected we had over 12 beds per manager - this has now fallen to just over 4 beds per manager.
Then his commitment to reduce paperwork to get more police out on the beat. Yet the government's own measures show that the police now spend more time on paperwork and less time preventing crime than ever before.
Browns private thoughts, 'you should never underestimate the stupidity of the British voter' they will believe anything.