Gordon Brown

[Reg Smeeton]

Childish

 You'll grow out of it..

[Don Rogers Shop]

Glad you quoted that, wrong thread reg. Apologies

[Colin Todd]

The words considerably and long period, are understandably vague. The words country and receive are just misspelt.

Whatever. To make it less vague for you - 12 years is the time frame.  Funilly enough I dont have the last 12 years budget figures to hand, but theres plenty of info in the public domain that backs me up.

Picking on a couple of typos is the last resort of someone who does not have an arguement on the subject.  I expected better of you Reg.

[ron dodgers]

How much does Iraq owe us then? All that demolition work - surely that will pay for the bonking crisis

[Phil_S]

I'm with CT & Co on this one.
New labour swept into power as a bunch of "proffesional policticians" who are only in it for the money. It's been going down ever since.
Brown has been the worst of the lot, but not the only culprit. He has devised & increaed so many stealth taxes it isn't true.  The first of many was to effectively remove £5,000,0000,0000 a YEAR from our collective pensions. Soon after he made the brilliant move of selling a big chunk of our gold reserves when the price of gold was at rock bottom. He was fortunate as chancellor to benefit from the growth in the economy which was already underway when they came to power, but despite this has frittered it away, & saved NOTHING for times such as now. They have been shown to be corrupt as in the F1 tobacco affair, Honours for cash & Mandelsons continued reappointments.
The tax system is a bloody mess, Quangos have multiplied despite promises to cut them, they have meddled with some of our basic freedoms throughout, the home office is "Not for for purpose", we were promised & then denied a vote on Europe, Council tax has gone through the roof, & immigration is totally out of controll.

I could go on, but suffice to say they will never get my vote.

[flammableBen]

Did you mean 5 billion?

[Jamiesfuturewife]

I dont like David Millyband

[THE FLASH]

Labour, Tories, Liberals .........all the same.........give in one hand and snatch more away in the other......

Anybody who believes that they are better off under a particular party is deluded!

[Ardiles]

All we are witnessing is the swing of the political pendulum.  Comments about Brown at the moment are very much along the same lines as comments made about Major in 1995 - but you could substitute gripes about selling of gold reserves and introduction of stealth taxes for the ERM exit and sleaze.

Depressingly, two party politics works something like this...

Party A gets in.  Most people happy to have a change of government.  There's a honeymoon period.  Optimism abounds and we're all happy to have given Party B a kicking in the polls.  Then Party A gets complacent.  Party A makes mistakes and Party A realises being in Government is a lot harder than being in Opposition.  Party A starts to make enemies and, eventually, looks doomed to defeat at the next election.

Party B gets in.  Most people happy to have a change of government.  There's a honeymoon period.  Optimism abounds and we're all happy to have given Party A a kicking in the polls.  Then Party B gets complacent.  Party B makes mistakes and Party B realises being in Government is a lot harder than being in Opposition.  Party B starts to make enemies and, eventually, looks doomed to defeat at the next election.

Party A gets in.  Most people happy to have a change of government.  There's a honeymoon period.  Optimism abounds and we're all happy to have given Party B a kicking in the polls.  Then Party A gets complacent.  Party A makes mistakes and Party A realises being in Government is a lot harder than being in Opposition.  Party A starts to make enemies and, eventually, looks doomed to defeat at the next election.

Party B gets in.  Most people happy to have a change of government.  There's a honeymoon period.  Optimism abounds and we're all happy to have given Party A a kicking in the polls.  Then Party B gets complacent.  Party B makes mistakes and Party B realises being in Government is a lot harder than being in Opposition.  Party B starts to make enemies and, eventually, looks doomed to defeat at the next election.

etc. etc.
etc. etc.

[Don Rogers Shop]

All we are witnessing is the swing of the political pendulum.  Comments about Brown at the moment are very much along the same lines as comments made about Major in 1995 - but you could substitute gripes about selling of gold reserves and introduction of stealth taxes for the ERM exit and sleaze.

Depressingly, two party politics works something like this...

Party A gets in.  Most people happy to have a change of government.  There's a honeymoon period.  Optimism abounds and we're all happy to have given Party B a kicking in the polls.  Then Party A gets complacent.  Party A makes mistakes and Party A realises being in Government is a lot harder than being in Opposition.  Party A starts to make enemies and, eventually, looks doomed to defeat at the next election.

Party B gets in.  Most people happy to have a change of government.  There's a honeymoon period.  Optimism abounds and we're all happy to have given Party A a kicking in the polls.  Then Party B gets complacent.  Party B makes mistakes and Party B realises being in Government is a lot harder than being in Opposition.  Party B starts to make enemies and, eventually, looks doomed to defeat at the next election.

Party A gets in.  Most people happy to have a change of government.  There's a honeymoon period.  Optimism abounds and we're all happy to have given Party B a kicking in the polls.  Then Party A gets complacent.  Party A makes mistakes and Party A realises being in Government is a lot harder than being in Opposition.  Party A starts to make enemies and, eventually, looks doomed to defeat at the next election.

Party B gets in.  Most people happy to have a change of government.  There's a honeymoon period.  Optimism abounds and we're all happy to have given Party A a kicking in the polls.  Then Party B gets complacent.  Party B makes mistakes and Party B realises being in Government is a lot harder than being in Opposition.  Party B starts to make enemies and, eventually, looks doomed to defeat at the next election.

etc. etc.
etc. etc.

You must be bored? i read all that and read it as they are all the same

[Ardiles]

You're good.

[Don Rogers Shop]

You're special.

[pauld]

You must be bored? i read all that and read it as they are all the same

I read it all too, to make sure he'd remembered to switch the A's and B's round properly. I really need to get out a LOT more

[oxford_fan]

never a frown with gordon brown

[BANGKOK RED]

Gordon brown texture like sun