One nervous step at a time, the Brown exit strategy..
Julian Bray comments:
The truth is out there and Gordon wants you to know that he has both the truth and the answers to all our problems. The problem being that apart from the party activists no one is listening anymore and whoever gets in after the general election, it is not a place any right thinking politician would wish to be.
One collection of truths facing Gordon is that whatever happens he will need to make really savage cuts in all of Labours pet projects. He knows that his ministerial talent is already spread so thinly that none of them however he shuffles the pack will be able to sell the new lean and mean labour future to an unemployed debt ridden electorate. No so much a manifesto but more a manifest of projects to be dumped, cut, culled and glossed over.
Then there is the local difficulty of anti-social behaviour, the tragic events which unfolded in Leicestershire only serve to underline what we all know to be the case anyway. Norfolk in my experience is ten times worse that Leicestershire, I am happy to give anyone who cares to listen chapter and verse. Clearly Normal for Norfolk. Nice to visit, just don’t try to live or work there…
Police have little or no interest in community police matters, when they have untrained PCSO’s to fall back on. Plastic police with limited powers; following up ASBO’s or dispersal orders is just too complicated and needs a trained police constable at the very least. . Just ask my Asian Ugandan born newsagent.
The truth is that MP’s of all parties, due to the cosseted insular lifestyle they have created within the Palace of Westminster simply don’t talk to real people anymore. There are however a handful of hard working exceptions, who due to the failures of others will probably lose their seats anyway. Some have simply given up and will opt for the generous payouts all former MP’s get on leaving office. Some very soon indeed.
If they do care about community matters then both police and MP’s cherry pick what is appropriate for their own agenda. We’ve had twelve years of this administration, how come it is only now they are owning up to mistakes and how matters will be better in the future? A future which has to pay out in monetary terms for the mistakes of the past, with an ever ageing population and fewer in a position to worik and pay taxes.. Finally, How can Ed Balls justify when annoucing multi billion pound educational cut backs,a multi million pound refit of his ministerial offices and even the installation of a ---wait for it --- MASSAGE room!
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