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Gordon Brown defiant on unpopular policy moves



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Published Date: 15 May 2008
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown today said he was determined to continue taking decisions in the long-term interests of the country, even if they proved unpopular in the short term.
Mr Brown shrugged off suggestions that he may be forced out of his position by growing unease on the Labour benches, insisting that he was the "best-placed" person to lead Britain through a global economic downturn.

He denied he had broken his own sustainable investment rule by borrowing £2.7 billion to pay for a tax cut to compensate the losers from the abolition of the 10p income tax rate, and said injecting the money into the economy could help Britain avoid recession.

The UK was better placed to deal with worldwide recession than it was in the previous downturn under a Conservative government in the early 1990s, because of Labour's record on keeping inflation under control, acting to support the housing market and maintaining low unemployment, he said.





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  • Last Updated: 15 May 2008 2:26 PM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Alan B,

15/05/2008 14:44:49
What was the longer term interest of the country by

1)ruining the pension funds
2)running high public sector deficits in relatively good economic circumstance so we are in a mess when global circumstances turn sour.
3)ecounraging high private sector debt.

The guy is the ultimate shorttermist. looking for what is best for brown and his career and to hell with the country.
2

A Friend of Fernando Poo,

, Newington 15/05/2008 16:13:39
I have every confidence that Brown will now do for the economy what he did for the country's gold stocks
3

Toast,

15/05/2008 18:53:34
Gordon Brown is a liar,plain and simple.
4

Jimbo2,

15/05/2008 19:32:52
As hated as Thatcher was in Scotland. Despised as much as Callaghan was in England. In charge of a party so bereft of policies that they have to steal them from the Tories, the Liberals and the SNP both North and South of the border. Too arrogant to admit his failings and too smug and self centred to see he is not wanted. He thinks he is indispensable. It seems to be the norm for Labour leaders these days.

Meanwhile in Scotland his protege Wendy Alexander shows the same traits as her London-centric master.

In Scotland Labour do yet another U-turn. This time it's on care funding.

A fortnight ago, Labour said it accepted all the recommendations of the Sutherland report which included urging Westminster to return the money they withheld on care funding .

They have now changed their policy on this. They will now not back the Scottish Government in pressing Westminster to return this money.

There seems to be a great deal of political turmoil within the Labour Party at the moment. What they claim to stand for one day, they oppose the next. What policies they opposed last month they are now for this month.

Labour across the UK have done so many U-turns of late they no longer know what they stand for. But we all know for sure that it's not the most vulnerable/lowest paid in society

The next General Election can't come fast enough.
5

The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 15/05/2008 20:03:09
So - he screws up on the 10p income tax situation, blames the world economic crisis then takes our money to pay for his mistakes so he can continue to perpetrate his next series of mistakes. Then congratulates himself that he is being a bit like George Bush in awarding people money to boost the economy (when the US probably has some reserves left and we don't).

Glad to see TV reports that the Crewe voters have not been taken in by this dumb ploy. The other two lies are a) about low inflation - which planet did he see this on, has he filled a petrol tank recently or paid a mortgage at his own expense or done some shopping. b) low unemployment masked by loads of incapacity benefit scroungers and low-paid immigrant jobs.

Brown stands for rip-off Britain to the max. Neither well-paid citizens or those of a vulnerable downtrodden disposition benefit from anything he does as it's all geared for maximum state take and spending on gormless social schemes and big handouts to foreign countries when our own is in desperate state. Oh yes - and running two war zones in parallel. And I haven't mentioned the equally strange antics of his Northern British counterpart.

I really hope for his sake as much as ours he gets sound thrashing in the by-election on the 22nd.
6

Vote UKIP in the 2009 EU elections!,

15/05/2008 20:17:12
Gordon Brown will go down in German history as a great man. Heil Gordon, mein Führer!


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7

Jimbo2,

15/05/2008 20:54:20
Vote UKIP in the 2009 EU elections!,15/05/2008 20:17:12

Your comparison with Brown and Hitler are childish to say the least. Of what age are you?

You are aware, that when you bring inflammatory rhetoric or exaggerated comparisons with Hitler into an online debate you automatically lose said debate, aren't you? Godwin's Law? Heard of it?

I doubt very much if German historians will compare Gordon Brown with Adolph Hitler. Nor do I think modern German's revere Adolph Hitler as your post implies.

Apart from lowering the tone of the debate you've also managed to insult every German alive today.
8

Vote UKIP in the 2009 EU elections!,

15/05/2008 21:37:11
Oh lighten up Jimbo. It was a half joke. Of course Germany isn't going to remember Herr Gordon. We won't even remember him when Nigel Farage is PM and Neo Labour is a horrible and distant memory!

Proper 'Britishness' is withdrawal from the EU and UN dictatorships.
9

Paddi,

15/05/2008 21:51:07
#6, absolutely spot on.

Last weekend the press were banging on about a short fall of £6bln over the next 20 years for cost of care for the elderly. We're paying that EVERY year in doing George Bush's bidding in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lunatics are surely running the asylum.
10

Vote UKIP in the 2009 EU elections!,

15/05/2008 22:09:28
"Gordon Brown defiant on unpopular policy moves"

Gordon Brown could appeal to the few remaining hardcore Labour supporters by referring to his most unpopular policies the 'Final Solution'. That sort of thing is sure to appeal to Lab MPs - a bit like Hitler's inner circle.
11

Foresight,

By the Water of Leith 16/05/2008 08:28:29

All he ever does is hide behind "the long term". Come out you scaredy craw and face the people both in a referendum on Europe and Scottish Independence. This man is no democrat and a disgrace to his Scottish roots.

 

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