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Gordon Brown, Labour party & Government
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What should PM Gordon Brown do?
How can Gordon Brown save the Labour party? some respect him for soldiering on despite all the bad words said, others say Labour needs a new leadership, and then who reckons the country needs a general election and possibly the Conservative party in government?
Labour has been the ruling party for 12 years now, very popular at first but deeply unpopular recently. London is one of the last strongholds for Labour and with local elections there in May 2010, should Gordon Brown wait till next May or call an early general election?
How can Gordon Brown save the Labour party? some respect him for soldiering on despite all the bad words said, others say Labour needs a new leadership, and then who reckons the country needs a general election and possibly the Conservative party in government?
Labour has been the ruling party for 12 years now, very popular at first but deeply unpopular recently. London is one of the last strongholds for Labour and with local elections there in May 2010, should Gordon Brown wait till next May or call an early general election?
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What is interesting, despite the mass cock ups that labour have overseen, the bad times and the mistakes, they still did some good for some people. Im not supporting the labour party by posting this, but its more of a reminder than when things are going right, people dont care in politics, so you are never too sure of what public opinion really is like. When it goes wrong, everyone seems to be an expert.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.35
Record police numbers in England, Scotland and Wales
Best-ever primary school results
Funding for every pupil in England to double by 2008
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries
85,000 more nurses
32,000 more doctors
Brought back matrons to hospital wards
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice
Gift aid was worth £625 million to charities last year
Restored city-wide government to London
Record number of students in higher education
Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997
Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
On course to exceed Kyoto target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2010
Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
Over 30,000 more teachers in England schools
All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
A million pensioners lifted out of relative poverty
800,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard
Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
Free TV licences for over-75s
Free local bus travel for over-60s
New Deal - helped over a million people into work
Over 1.5 million child trust funds have been started
Free eye test for over 60s
Free entry to national museums and galleries
Overseas aid budget more than doubled
Cancer death rates down by 12 per cent, saving 43,000 lives
Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
But no politician goes into politics for the money. They could spend their time being CEO of some company making hundreds of thousands a year, instead they opt to be in the public eye etc.
I would suspect anyone who went into politics just for financial motivations is a bit of an idiot.
Mind you, Cuntwin told him to fuck off and doubtless when voters are telling the the psychologically flawed one to give up his, we'll get much the same reaction.
The British government may not have 'caused' the recession on their own but they are one of the two main countries responsible for it. Brown likes to try and deflect opinion by stating that it was a 'global credit crunch' but we all know that a 'crunch', like any downturn, has to start somewhere and Brown chose to rely too heavily on the UK financial systems and not on our industry.
What industry?
The credit crunch as people like to call it is really the pulling of credit to banks by central banks ...owned by the same international banking families who flooded the U.S with cheap money in the twenties and then pulled the credit without warning ...causing massive collapse and making them even more rich and powerful cos it all conveniently collapsed into their hands.
The last twelve years ...more so the last two ...has seen the biggest movements of wealth in history and it is continuing right now.
The wealth of the world is being cornered into fewer and fewer hands.
Even better will be seeing the look on your face when you realise the answer to this country's problems isn't the Tories.:rolleyes:
Labour might not be brilliant, but they're certainly better than the alternatives. Cameron's already telling us all how he's going to cut public services, and he isn't even in power yet. And you're lapping it up. Fantastic.
Cuts in public spending are going to be needed no matter who wins the election. Call Me Dave, despite admitting to a tiny number of cuts that he's going to make, is not being honest about what he'll do. Still, it's an improvement on the line our printer-smashing Prime Mentalist is taking - that spending will continue to grow forever and ever. Gordon claims he abolished boom and bust - he's certainly managed to abolish the bust!