Showing posts with label 2006 Labour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2006 Labour. Show all posts

Friday, September 20, 2013

The Blair and Brown WARS Part 2 - Labour Wars

Telegraph: Reports more on the release of Downing Street emails from 2006 that cover the Brown Coup attempt against PM Blair, the articles the notes the following, " One email suggests that Mr Brown told Mr Blair that he should resign because the public “hate him”. ".

Lets Get Real:

The McBride memoir and the release of these emails will lead the former Blair and Brown supporters to fight the old fights, well lets hope they do, that is fun, having to listen to Ed Miliband do a speech is bad, at least this is TRUTH about the dirty side of politics, not something they teach if you want to go to politics.  But to fair to Gordon Brown, he did have one hell of a wait, it would drive any normal man a bit crazy, he had spent his entire political life wanting to be PM, and then to see the Crown take by his one time friend Tony Blair, and then the long wait and the view that Blair had broken his promises to go at different times.   What this blog fails to understand is that by 2006 the Brown Camp had WON, the Iraq War, the mess that was developing in Afghanistan, the support of Blair for Israel and Bush 43 had cut him lose from the Labour Party and to the Country to be honest, the Brown Camp could have waited, why rush, Blair was a spent force in many respects, the Coup attempt pushed Blair out but hurt Brown more, with the Party and Country.  One can say that PM Blair should have sacked Brown years before, if he had he might be still in 10 Downing Street. 

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Summer of Discontent - Public Sector STRIKES

Telegraph: Reports that 750,000 workers in the public sector could go on strike on June 30th. This is a disgrace folks, the public sector has grown fat after the spending of Labour between 1997 - 2010, in 2006 the UK Treasury stated to the Cabinet under Tony Blair that it had spent all this money and what had it got for it, in other words, not a lot, the Treasury argued that any future spending should be in line with inflation, Gordon Brown spent like a drunk sailor , thus the present economic problems faced by the UK. The Coalition Government should stand firm, it should be like Lady Thatcher, tell the Unions to bring on the strikes and face them down, even start sacking people, hire those that are unemployed and can do the jobs that the public sector don’t want do, stand firm PM Cameron.