Gordon Brown possesses only two advantages as our Prime Minister. The first is that he is not Tony Blair and the second is that he is not married to the repugnant Cherie. For these things he enjoyed a brief surge in the opinion polls.From there, I am afraid, it is all downhill.
As Chancellor of the Exchequer he: frittered away our gold reserves, put into place failed policies for job creation for young people, introduced at least 110 stealth taxes, reduced wealth and spending power for workers, knowingly and wantonly wrecked hundreds of thousands of pension schemes, upped public spending with very little to show and in his last budget announcement reduced living standards for the poorest with his assault on 10% income tax rates.He not only broke his promise to reduce bureaucracy in the Civil Service, he actually increased it.
So how did this dangerous man gain a reputation as a prudent Chancellor? - Firstly, he built on and continued the corrective work from the tories for which he can only glean the very minimum of credit; then the socialist broadcasting corporation gave him both an easy ride and free propaganda but best of all, he never had to face a world recession - in 17 years the tories had faced four.
Oh lucky man!
He won his premiership without having to lead his party into a general election and within weeks shows that he is no more than Tony Mark 2.
The troops remain in Iraq; the troops remain in Afghastlystan; he has betrayed us to Brussels [one more in a very long, mixed party line], he has rejected the promised referendum on the most spurious of grounds; he cosies up to Dubya and is not prepared to tackle issues such as the West Lothian Question and the Barnett Formula.
He tells us what he knows are lies about the effectiveness of his 'economic tests' and 'red lines' which are mere chaff in the wind. He has not stood up against one single piece of politically correct nonsense.
Even so, after all of that, do we really believe that 'Our Dave' is any better?
In the name of sanity - please stop casting votes for parties of the liberal elite!
