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Gordon's big lie

At a Labour Activists' meeting this afternoon, the Prime Minister said the following:

“If we believe that people should be responsible and people should act fairly and we should be fair to others, then it is our duty to make sure in our politics, in our economy, in our society, that’s what happens.”

This message of reducing inequality in society would be honourable if only the Labour Party, under his economic stewardship, had not failed so miserably at this task since being in power.

Take the following four examples:
The PM and his advisers do really live in a fantasy world if they think that their policies, over the last twelve years, have been fair to the poorest in our society. Indeed, his mismanagement of the economy has made things worse, and not better, for millions of people in this country.

Whilst Labour politicians bleat incessantly that the 'global' recession is everyone else's fault, the simple fact of the matter remains - they have squandered hundreds of billions of pounds of taxpayers' money on initiative after initiative and yet the poorest in our society are not only no better off, but in some instances, are worst off (and that was before we experienced our current economic woes of the last few months).

The Prime Minister shouldn't resign because he is losing interanl support within his party, he should resign because he has let this country down and broken his promise to help the poorest in our society.

That is the main reason why he should go, and go quickly.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Interesting you pick on the social agenda because on social policy votes Tory MP's MP's have spent 12 years opposing any help for the least well off in our society from the introduction of the minimum wage and help for carers to extending maternity and paternity leave.

Just recently Tory MP's tried to get the minimum wage scrapped with a motion in the House of Commons it still smacks of a pro business only thinking party, its easy to say Labour has failed and in many areas they have, however i doubt people trust the Conservatives on the Social Agenda just yet.

Margaret Thatcher words of there being no such thing as society still ring true with many in the UK despite David Cameron's best efforts.
June 07, 2009 8:22 pm
Gordon's nappy said…
Blah Blah Blah - the usual bleating from Labour. Guess what, it isn't the nasty tories who have been in power but your lot and they have done bugger all for the people of this country except left us with a deficit that my grandkids will be paying off.
June 07, 2009 10:22 pm
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