How does Brown plan to deliver on his promises?

Mike

The speech was an awful collection of political platitudes and vacuous soundbites made by probably the most mendacious man ever to hold office at No.10. More mendacious than Lloyd George or Blair. Any statements made my this government or this leader deserve a through fisking

Mike H

We're told that a writer in The Times says that “we are no nearer to understanding how a Brown Britain would work in five or ten years’ time.” For heavens sake, how much more time do you need to make an assessment? In five or ten years time it will be just the same as it is now or, possibly, a lot worse. The government will still be wasting billions on 'new initiatives' to employ armies of box-tickers, while anyone who tries to make a real contribution to the economy will be regulated out of existence. Labour have had ten years to show us how Britain 'works' under a socialist state. How much more do you need to see?

Perry

The ‘Vision’ thing is the give away. Platitudes ‘n lies = Smoke ‘n mirrors = disregard for plain speaking and sensible policy. And the ‘British’ (sic) people tolerate this? Why? How? Is there no-one to speak for us? (regret I disregard the current version of the Tory party, silent and dislocated as it is, and having ditched so much native good sense and perspective).

David Parker

We are witnessing an interesting example of how power can corrupt. Many commentators credit Blair, despite his showmanship and spin, with a degree of underlying sincerity, though, in view of the number of occasions where the lying was predominant, this is certainly debatable. In the case of Brown, however, such is his arrogance and sense of superiority, and 'divine purpose' that any means justify his`ends and the truth or falsity of a promise or statement no longer even enter into his consideration. Ten years of intense and very personal political frustration have wrought their psychological disturbance upon Mr Brown. But they have also`taught him, patience, cunning, resentment and ruthlessness.This does not bode well for Britain.

TGF UKIP

Four highly accurate and perceptive comments by Mike, Mike H, Perry and David Parker which make it all the more important that the Conservative Party gets it completely right with its next choice of Leader. It's far too late now to undo what it did in December 2005 but it can and must learn its lesson and go for a politically mature, serious, heavyweight, safe pair of hands who will have has his primary aim, not the creation of a personal brand, but the exposure and destruction of Brown's Labour. The present Leadership should be deeply ashamed of what they have let Blair and now Brown get away with before and since 2005, nor is it acceptable to ascribe all their deficiencies to the partiality of the BBC.

HJ

Yes, the speech was utterly banal and vacuous - and yet it was discussed on the BBC as if it was some great statement. Brown is a politician with little other experience of anything - why were his seemingly random initiatives that he appears to have thought up whilst on the loo and which he is now going to impose (handheld computers for the police, for example) not ridiculed? Why is it accepted that it's sensible for ignorant politicians to take our money and decide on hare-brained 'initiatives'?