Gordon's Speech piece by peice

Just listened to it again, making some notes, be warned, this will be a long post.

1. Brown claims the Tory judgement is in question because the 'economic call of the century' was required, and the Tories got it wrong. He also claims the Conservative Party are the only party in the world opposed to the economic stimulas This of course is not true, many parties opposed it. In terms of Govenrments, those who provided cautious stimulus are now better placed to come out of the recesssion The UK is not one of them. They are better plcaed beacuse they ignored Gordon's calls. Gordon also, not content with made up figures regarding 500,000 UK jobs being saved, despite the fact unemployment is now higher than in 1997, now claims the actions aved 15 million jobs world wide. What a load of garbage Mr Brown.

2. Brown talks about the 'lost generation' of the 1980's. What about New Labour's lost generation. educated in poor ideologically driven schools, a generation lost to binge drinking, knife and gun crime, drugs. What planet is Gordon living on if he thinks there is no lost generation today, with less hope than ever.

3. Gordon claims Labour is the party of business and enterprise. Yet he is currently planning an increase in small business corparation tax and extra regulations costing businesses billions, at the time they need help most. On top of all the other measures over 12 years he has put in to crush private enterprise in favour of the unproductive social sector.

4. He talks about middle class values being Labour's values. that will come as news to most middle earners, whom he announces measures which will take more from them later in this speech.

5. He talks about 'two options on public spending.' correct, more tax and spend and debt under Labour, or at least some semblence of fiscal responsiblity under the Tories. Labour of course now have to plan cuts, so awful their economic management has been.

6. He announced he plans to raise the higher rates of tax, this is not new, but will ensure talent leaves the country.The only way for this not to happen of course is to kick the Government out. He also announced plans to raise the NI contribution by 0.5%, this will hit employers and ordinary working people, whose 'values' he piously claims to share. Also, so much for protecting jobs.

7. He announced a quarter of a million child care places for 2 years olds, nice you may think. Oh, it won't happen for 5 years, and it will be paid for by removing chidlcare subsides for others. Another shamful tax that will certainly hit the 'squeezed middle class' Brown now claims to love so much.

8. State run homes for single mothers and AV+, see my previous post.

9. Apparently Tony Blair 'started' the peace process in Northern Ireland. Sorry, I think you will find that was John Major.

10. Apparently countries from every continent look to the NHS for inspiration. A pathetic attempt to tie himself to the US reforms of Barak Obama, who for the record has said and I quote. 'I don't support the Brittish system.' Only really Canada does support it, nowhere else has our system or anything similar, most also have better health care.

11. After teling us the NHS is so great, apparently Pensioners need a new Nation Care service. Hey? If the NHS is so great, why can't they deal with pensioners.

12. He tells us Conservatives have no heart, yes he really said that. What a dispicable little man he is.

13. The final claim 'Since 1997 Labour has gvien Britain back it's future.' A future of hight taxes, reckless spending, the biggest debt in history, higher unemployment than whan they began with more on the dole, anti-social behaviour, knife and gun crime higher than ever with a culture of street gangs that barely existed pre-1997, certainly not to make it a huge issue. A future of more and more state intervention 'for our own good', civil liberties destroyed and the talent of huge numbers totally wasted in a dead wasteland of authoritarian misery. That is the future Labour has given us. For a real future, next year, this nasty man reponsible in huge part for the post 1997 future, simply must be gone.