Gordon Brown

Devious and Untrustworthy

Isn't it strange how The Stranglers predicted his coming in 1981? Spooky.

Gorden Brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind he runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with Golden Brown

Never a frown
With Gorden Brown
Never a frown
With Gorden Brown

Once you hear that song like that it's never the same again.

I wanted to give him a fair chance but I'm angry with him this week. After keeping the postal workers' dispute at arms' length and pretending it is nothing to do with the Government, he came out yesterday telling them to accept the Royal Mail's lousy deal and get back to work. And yet, if he had decided to call an election he would have sent his begging bowl to the postal workers' union, the CWU, hoping for half a million pounds of their money!
Whatever happened to the Labour Party being the political wing of the labour movement? More like the bosses' party these days.

Gordon Brown has had a fair chance for the last 10 years. He has been the minister in charge of expenditure. He has used that chance to increase taxes and increase the size of the state sector, therefore undermining any competative advantage we had as a nation.

Surely if the Prime Minister really wanted to support working people then his government could do so by reducing the amount of money he takes from us in the form of direct and indirect taxation.

For many years Labour hasn't represented ordinary working people in terms of their economic relationship with their bosses. Labour prefers to represent people in terms of their ethnicity, culture, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

Working people are just seen as a convenient source of tax revenue to be redistributed to those that the government feels are more deserving than the people who actually earn it.

Dunkirk.

Labour prefers to represent people in terms of their ethnicity, culture, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

Could you expand on why you think this?

Gordon Brown? Same old, same old.....

It's still all about spin, isn't it? Like him going to Iraq and promising to bring home - wait for it - ONE THOUSAND OF OUR SOLDIERS. Then it turns out that 500 were due to come back anyway.
The funniest thing in recent days, though, has been him saying that even if the polls had predicted a huge majority for Labour, he still wouldn't have called an early election. Oh yeah....(I wish we had a smiley of someone with his pants on fire!)
He claims to be behind the Burmese activists while arranging to have them deported rather than granting them asylum in Britain.
I don't believe what he says and I don't trust him or his government. Nor do I believe that Cameron would do any better.

Love
Sunanda xxx

He can walk the walk, but can't talk the talk. ( as all politicians do really!;))

Warmest wishes- calla lily x

Actually, more than anything, I feel that when he talks he's like a robot. He's simply reading stuff, usually quite tonelessly, I don't think he experiences human emotions. Mind you, Tony Blair used to ooze sincerity and look what a phoney he turned out to be!

Love
Sunanda xxx

HI Sunanda,

Closest I could get with smileys!!!
But then found the excellent cartoonof the OZ government!!! Maybe more apt for Mr Brown and his chums.

xx

Hi Barafundle,

The Labour Party was originally formed to represent the political interests of the trade union movement in Parliament. These were basically the wider political interests of working people.

While millions of people worked in industry and were organised into trade unions the Labour Party remained close to its original principles.

The working population always was diverse and always did have diverse needs like the need to fight against racism, sexual discrimination etc. However, now that the industrial working class is insignificant in terms of its numbers and organiation the Labour Party has lost its traditional base.

Middle class radicals have come to the fore in the LP particularly the public sector middle class. The party's priorities have therefore been refocused away from the economic interest of organised labour to other social groupings that the party now identifies with.

Any organisation that professes to speak on behalf of various communities will get a sympathetic ear as long as Labour identifies with its cause.

Dunkirk

Any organisation that professes to speak on behalf of various communities will get a sympathetic ear as long as Labour identifies with its cause.

Actually, that per se, is not such a bad thing IMO. But of course the question is what happens after the sympathetic ear has been lent.

Laura - thanks so much for the cartoon. My newspaper regularly used to portray Tony Blair with his pants on fire. What a dreadful indictment of our society when most of us just know we can't believe a word a politician says. Any politician.

The lack of integrity amongst those who aspire to tell us what to do really saddens me.

With love
Sunanda xxx

Personally, I think he's on a bit of a power trip at the moment. He's wanted to be PM for so long, but is he really up to the job?????: