Labour cuts, sort of

I've just watched Gordon Brown's speech to the TUC. The conference, ironically being held in Liverpool, one of the real homes socialism, has hearalded the left's pitch to take back the Labour Party should Labour lose, while at the same time refusing to accept defeat will happen.

Accoridng to Gordon, he was right on the recession and everybody else was wrong. The world followed his lead on the economy, even though many didn't. He thinks his actions have saved hundreds of thousands of jobs, that's presumably why unemployment is so high. He told us he wanted to go to the upcoming G20 and EU summits to argue for more stimulus, even though the economies that created less of one are in a far better position coming out of the economic downturn the the UK is.

Most wonderfully of all, his choices he keeps telling us, are those of the British people, that's must be why he is so far ahead in the polls, oh hang on a minute, that's not right is it. We also had choices to mkake in the future, stick with him and don't put any recovery at risk, or you get those nasty Tories who will cut, cut and cut services some more. Oh, sorry, hang on a moment again, he admitted he would in the end have to do so, well sort of anyway. Not front line services, whatever that means and not until we were growing again, presumably while the UK piles up mountains more debt.

He wrapped up his feeble speech to hugely enthusiastic applause from the delegates, but only if you compare to a night in a graveyard. If he can't impress the few left who actually want him to win, who can he?