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:
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.
“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:
- Education - thanks to Labour's introduction of tuition fees, the proportion of working class students going to university has declined
- Personal wealth - According to data from the Department for Work and Pensions, Britain under Gordon Brown is a more unequal country than at any time since modern records began in the early 1960s - since the 2005 election, the incomes of the poor have fallen and those of the rich have risen
- Regional economic disparities - The relative prosperity gap between between London and other parts of the UK has widened in the period 1997-2007, with the poorest regions such as Wales among the hardest hit.
- The recession - whilst the more prosperous parts of the UK are surviving, it seems that those areas hardest hit by the current recession are our poorest areas, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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
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.