Gordon Brown Bottles It And Prevents Change
GORDON Brown “BOTTLED IT”.
At least that’s what the Mail on Sunday’s front page says.
Gordon Brown offers another explanation, something along the lines of the country not wanting him to call a general election, a dental appointment he dare not miss and nothing at all about worrying that he might lose and go down as the second-shortest serving British Prime Minister in history, behind George Whatshisname.
But the News of the World, the Sun’s sister paper, knows better. It has the inside take. And announces in now shy way: “News of the World poll kills election - BROWN AND OUT.”
Indeed. It was the “Sun Wot Dun It”.
Reading on: “Gordon Brown’s plans for an early general election were thrown into chaos last night when he learned the devastating results of a News of the World poll.”
It told Brown of “a Tory lead of SIX PER CENT in 83 key marginal constituencies—meaning almost 50 Labour MPs would lose their seats”.
The News of the World foresees a hung parliament and the Tories in power.
Says Brown: “I made the decision for a different reason—because I want to get on with the job of change in this country.”
Of course, he could call an election and bring about change overnight…
Pic: Poldraw
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October 7th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Where’s Tony Benn when you need him? Don’t tell me he’s looking for Madeleine…
October 7th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I wasn;t asked. Was anyone asked? Who does Brown talk to when he talks to the people? Do you suppsoe they are people who want to hang onto their jobs?
October 7th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
“Gordon Brown offers another explanation, something along the lines of the country not wanting him to call a general election”
I don’t recall anyone being asked?
October 7th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Mine goes to Clarence Mitchell.
He will convince the world that Britain is still a power.
October 7th, 2007 at 10:39 am
The irony of his clarion call for change seems to have escaped the man who won’t call a General Election until he has to…
October 7th, 2007 at 10:25 am
If the events of the last few days tell Gordon anything it is how unpopular inheritance tax is. He was chancellor for 10 years. He did little to adjust the i.tax to match the increase in house prices. The same with stamp duty. These taxes are so unpopular that they will determine who wins the next election.
I heard someone on the radio this morning saying that Inheritance tax is a fair tax it is as it is basically a ‘windfall tax’ for people who got lucky with their house so the money should be spread amongst the less fortunate .
There will probably only be one generation of people who are in this position where house prices have been allowed to increased so dramatically. Whereas its nice to know ones house is worth a bit, I would much rather (for the sake of my children) be where it was when my husband and I brought our first house in 1968. It was £5000 and he earnt £2000 pa (three bed wimpy house).
I am sure that it is this that can make the next generation so ‘uninvested’ in the future. No matter how hard they work at good, responsible jobs, without help they cannot aspire to buy their own house and make their own way. This has been allowed to happen under successive governments because they do not build enough houses and GB was at no 11 for 10 years so he cannot blame it on anyone else.
However, these ‘lucky windfall’ people need the money gained from the house to subsidise their children in order to redress the balance.
Their own children come amongst the ‘less fortunate’. Anyway, the money belongs to the person leaving it, fair and square - it does not belong to the government.
For the ten years GB was in number 11 I hoped he would at least adjust inheritance tax to take into consideration houses prices (the inflation figures that include house prices not the phony 2% that everyone who pays bills knows is not accurate).
I also hoped he would stagger the stamp duty so that if a house fell into the next bracket it did not automatically attract the full higher figure
All it took was one brave move from DC to wipe out GB’s hopes of 5 years as PM in his own right. It was not the speech fromDC (sorry DC, but it was’nt) nor the belief in the the policies.
As the general public all we usually get the choice on is whether we believe that each party will make a difference to Education or Health or Crime. Who knows.? Who can tell?
But for one we had the option to vote on something that really, really made a difference.
I did not vote last time because the parties seem the same. Both occupy the the centre ground. Tony Blair always struck me as a conservative and GB invited Margaret Thatcher to Dowing Street.
People say what about the poor people. We are all struggleing.
If I need to go into a nursing home I will end up having to pay for it out of what I have worked hard for all my life. I will have to sell my home and use the money from that before the government steps in. Fair enough you might say, but a friend of mine whose parents had a council house and drank and did not work are both in £600 per week nursing homes and are not paying a penny.
I am beginning to think that they are the ones who have got it ’sussed’
Is this what my inheritance tax will pay for?
I am now sorry that we will have 2 more years of Labour (I did not care before)
GB says that he wants to get on with changing the country. Who has been in charge of it for the last 10 years?