... an Irish expat in London casting a cold eye on life ...and stuff
Thursday, 13 May 2010
I never voted Tory before ……
New ConDem Cabinet - 23 Millionaires, 23 White, 0 Black, 1 Asian, 26 Men, 4 Women. 70% went to Oxbridge.... Can they really afford a 5% pay cut – the rest of us can’t!
He will be missed more than people think at present. I have began to read more about him only recently, I wish I had done so earlier so I could have been more supportive.
He was the Labour I wanted as he did not have the imperialist ambitions of Tony Blair. It was so refreshing to hear his first speech as Prime Minister, free from the George Bush rhetoric of Tony Blair which sickened a lot of people (when it came to Iraq, Iran, Palestine, etc,).
His prime concern was to build a fairer Britain, something he succeeded at and his work and policies will be embedded in the society and Government of this country for many years to come.
Fairer taxes, tax credits, new hospitals & schools, FSA, independent Bank of England, saving the banks, winter fuel allowance, not joining Euro without 5 point test being passed and so on
The savage media was very unkind to him and painted a picture of him that did not refelct his actual personality. He was not in it for the cameras but was a principled man who delivered substance, not to mention a man with modest roots like most of us.
Undisputedly, the best Chancellor Britian has ever had. He just never got a fair ride; first in 1994, then In Blair's premier, the in not calling the early election is his premier, the world-wide recession (which he handled brilliantly on all accounts), expenses scandal and so on.
If this election was about who poses best on the gardens of no. 10 then the brutal media have got their guy(s). The truth is that you will not find a PM like Gordon Brown for years to come, not even in Labour; and I will miss that in politics.
He will be missed more than people think at present. I have began to read more about him only recently, I wish I had done so earlier so I could have been more supportive.
ReplyDeleteHe was the Labour I wanted as he did not have the imperialist ambitions of Tony Blair. It was so refreshing to hear his first speech as Prime Minister, free from the George Bush rhetoric of Tony Blair which sickened a lot of people (when it came to Iraq, Iran, Palestine, etc,).
His prime concern was to build a fairer Britain, something he succeeded at and his work and policies will be embedded in the society and Government of this country for many years to come.
Fairer taxes, tax credits, new hospitals & schools, FSA, independent Bank of England, saving the banks, winter fuel allowance, not joining Euro without 5 point test being passed and so on
The savage media was very unkind to him and painted a picture of him that did not refelct his actual personality. He was not in it for the cameras but was a principled man who delivered substance, not to mention a man with modest roots like most of us.
Undisputedly, the best Chancellor Britian has ever had. He just never got a fair ride; first in 1994, then In Blair's premier, the in not calling the early election is his premier, the world-wide recession (which he handled brilliantly on all accounts), expenses scandal and so on.
If this election was about who poses best on the gardens of no. 10 then the brutal media have got their guy(s). The truth is that you will not find a PM like Gordon Brown for years to come, not even in Labour; and I will miss that in politics.