Thanks to James Fletcher, and no thanks to Gordon Brown

How can Labour, the most incompetent, mendacious, morally bankrupt party in recent history win Glenrothes? Are people really that stupid? Let’s summarise:

• the whole economy is in the crapper (read any of the recent articles on Burning Our Money)
• we’re stuck in two failed wars
• unemployment’s rocketing up
• crime is rife
• house repossessions are up
• Mandelson’s schmoozing up to Russian oligarchs and not declaring it
• we’re to be given ID cards by a govt who can’t keep data safe
• motorists will be spied on every journey (and no doubt fined for speeding)
• ministers want to stop motorists receiving court costs back for speeding fines if they win their case
• banks have been nationalised
• etc.

Seriously, how bad does it have to get? When we people realise that (New) Labour is a complete and total failure, a party that’s added £1.28 TRILLION to the tax bill since they’ve been in power and delivered far less in real terms - a failing NHS, rising crime, crap local services, etc.

WAKE UP!

When’s the general election?!

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That said, even though I have my needs covered, I still have wants:

• more memory for my computer
• Left 4 Dead
• Saints Row 2
• New clothes (I’m dressed like a Marshalsea inmate)
• Iron Man DVD
• etc.

For all this, I still don’t spend - I have a debt to pay off, and that’s my focus. I rely on my weekly budget for small things, trips out to the cinema, and try to keep spending to a minimum. Every now and again I slip, but through cutting down my spending, I make up for it.

So, it is with complete disgust that I read that Gordon Brown borrowing more is the “responsible” thing to do in this Recession. “Borrowing” is simply deferred taxation, and the bill will be paid by us, our children and probably their children as well. Hasn’t he spent enough? This is why we’re in the mess we’re in to start with! Spend, spend, spend, tax, tax, tax - that’s all Gordon Brown knows. He’s not been called the Credit Card Chancellor for a while, but the moniker is still applicable.

You don’t spend your way out of a recession - that Keynesian approach of will not work as it requires the government to have saved some money during the good times, and our government have pissed it away like drunken sailors on whore leave.

I’m amazed that Labour are narrowing the gap on the Tories, can’t people see that Gordon Brown has led this country to the state we are currently in? He should have saved more, as we all should. A general election cannot come soon enough to remove the whole shower.

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I just can’t beleive how he’s being lauded as the saviour of the banking world by our press, foreign press, etc. How dare he lecture the banks for not putting money aside to ride out the bad times when he’s done the same? How dare he reprimand the banks about their off-balance sheet practices when that’s where PPP, PFI and Northern Rock is?

And don’t get me started on him moaning about the £17 billion of City bonuses “swimming around” last year - if the FSA (which Brown set up) had been doing their job, maybe the banks would have been reined in a bit. And bonuses are a perfectly legitimate way of giving people an incentive to work. Ok, so the banks may have gone over the top a bit, but see the previous sentence.

The fact that Gordon Brown has used taxpayers money, my future grandson’s money, to prop up some banks that should be allowed to fail (it’s free market capitalism) is simply disgusting. There’s no such thing as part-nationalisation either, it’s like being “a little pregnant”.

What sickens me is that Gordon Brown is being seen as some sort of hero, he may well go on to win the Glenrothes by-election on the strength of him getting us out of a hole that he put is in - the mind boggles! Also, I’m very suspicious of Robert Peston’s announcements and timing thereof - some have suggested that the banks were talked down so they could be nationalised…

Finally, although the FTSE 100 closed up yesterday, the share prices of the nationalised banks tanked, with RBS losing 20% of its value - why aren’t the media reporting that?

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Thank you, I’m here all week, try the veal

“He vowed to go beyond the action already taken against Landsbanki, one of the Icelandic banks which had its UK assets seized on Wednesday under anti-terrorism laws meant to stop extremist groups laundering money.”

Anti-terrorism laws being used to freeze UK assets of a BANK? Nice one, Gordon. When these laws were passed, I’m sure many sensible people stood and said that they would be abused, and I’m equally sure our esteemed “leaders” said no they won’t. The proof is right there… I hate Labour’s Big Brother-style of Government, and it must end.

But it gets better:

Mr Brown told the BBC: “We are freezing the assets of Icelandic companies in the UK where we can. We will take further action against the Icelandic authorities wherever that is necessary to recover the money.” He has also called on the rest of the world to follow Britain’s “ground-breaking” move to save the banking system. Mr Brown urged other governments to put money into struggling banks and offer similar guarantees to persuade them to resume lending to each other.

Quick, spend your way out of recession! Use terrorism as an excuse to freeze assets!!! Christ, you couldn’t make it up. Gordon Brown is a broken man at the top of a broken party that has wholly ruined Britain.

Note for councils: interest rates offered by banks reflects the risk related with the account. Should have kept the money in the UK, but thanks to John Prescott, councils were allowed to invest where they liked - seeing as they can’t even sort out bin collections, how the hell were they meant to manage investment?

Git.