The latest round of "do nothing" jibes

Tiberius

Brown can only get away with this if supine interviewers let him.

Was there no, "but Prime Minister, the Tories have actually proposed a cut in spending to relieve the debt burden and presure on the pound, and more recently the removal of tax on savings - how is that nothing?"

Mark

I wish Brown would do nothing We would all be better off. There is a case for actually doing the exact opposite to everything he does or says I would bet on balance We'd all be much much better off.

DM

I, for one, have got to the stage that no matter what he says, I feel so enraged I could punch him. I can no longer be bothered to argue on this website or elsewhere (it puts my blood pressure up!) about the rights and wrongs of his proposals etc. but glad other coffee housers can keep their cool better than I can.

Lance Grundy

And while he's accusing the Tories of doing nothing, he's out spending everything and achieving nothing - except wasting billions and billions of pounds.

Sally Chatterjee

I think Gordon Brown is the "do nothing" man.

He did nothing about Iraq. He did nothing to equip British soldiers. He did nothing about knife crime.

He did nothing about a housing boom. He did nothing to fix the budget deficit. He did nothing to regulate the City. He did nothing to tame out-of-control banks. He did nothing prepare the nation for a recession.

He does nothing but snipe at the Tories.

Lou Dacht

I read elsewhere that Brown has trundled out a scheme to create 35,000 apprenticeships to 'prepare the economy for a future recovery'.

This does seem to beg the question why such apprentices were not considered a requirement of the economy of the last ten years? Portrayed repeatedly as being in a state of healthy growth, surely a central part of its continued development would need a constant recruitment of young skill seekers?

(BTW 6,000 of said apprentices on Brown's scheme, will be studying towards NVQs in table wiping at McDonalds)

Polly and Alice's mum

Lance Grundy, I think you may have hit the nail on the head...GB achieving nothing. This should be made to run and run - every time he talks about the Tories being a "do nothing" party, someone should say "but you have ACHIEVED nothing".

Short the UK

Just wait for GDP Q4 '08. It will be a shocker. In fact it will be when the British depression began. Most of the pundits in the media are calling this badly wrong. Advising people to buy shares in this climate is total insanity.

New Labour are going to be rocked by the economic collapse.

I liken the elite who run UK plc to Marconi. That company was destroyed by delusion, debt and a bubble popping. There is a chance UK plc will go bust if GDP seriously collapses. Let's just hope the other G7 economies go in the toilet as well.

How the media and the public are letting Brown get away with destroying our country is just truly shocking.

The curve.....

We had the Panic of '08 now it will be the Collapse of '09.

Tally-ho.

TGF UKIP

Sally Chatterjee, if you were writing the script for the Tories instead of The Shaven Headed One, they might actually start to sound like an opposition.

Emil

If Brown had done nothing for their first term we'd still have all our gold and pensions intact. Now he's about to print money like there's no tomorrow, no doubt the poor will be given state sponsored wheelbarrows to take their benefit money home in.

Anthony a

Does it really matter what Brown says? Noone is listening.

We are all far too busy praying that we manage to keep our jobs than listen to a barrage of pointless and misleading statistics....

Nicholas

Sally Chatterjee - bravo!

Christopher Chantrill

Sally Chatterjee: please send your resume into CCHQ and tell them you want to join the team preparing Cameron for PMQs.

Ben

he gives the impression of going around like a zombie mouthing well tried cliches from a well worn script.

Verity

Brown's also the nowhere man. There was a fad for calling him MacCavity, but few read T S Eliot and it didn't resonate with the masses. I'll try to pull up the "Nowhere Man" lyric and perhaps the Tories could play it over photos/videos of Brown.

cuffleyburgers

Emil - but they won't be British made wheel barrows...

tim

Well said Sally Chatterjee. Hope the people who help Cameron prepare for PMQ's are reading this.

Wily Trout

New Labour have never tried to run the country - only to destroy the opposition. The electorate are ignorant to believe anything conveyed to them by a smoothly managed media. New Labour's policies have only ever been the adolescent ideas of the student union. No-one in New Labour has any experience of doing anything but talk.

Robert

Broon accuses the tories of being a do nothing party.Well if doing something means recklessly over spending tax payers money and creating a debt ridden society I wish he had'nt done anything.

Hysteria

@ Sally - great lines - I look forward to Central Office picking up this thread and hearing those words from the Tories - often !!