What Dougie didn't say

Chuck Unsworth

This constant barrage of assertion as to what the Tories may or may not do if elected is simple diversion. What Alexander and his colleagues are unable to do is show what this decade of their government has actually done to benefit us all. It's all well and good raving on about 'investment' - i.e. spending our cash - but the reality is that all this expenditure has been disastrous. There is very little to show for it all, certainly the return on our 'investment' has been virtually nil.

So New Labour is reduced to attack being their only form of defence. And with such stalwarts as Alexander these attacks are like being slapped with a limp lettuce.

TrevorsDen

Wee Dougie --- a waste of space.

As is this article.

The news today is full of how we will need eye-watering increases in our energy bills to pay for the govts pointless needless pie in the sky 'renewable' energy proposals.

Only the day before yesterday the same govt was talking about the problem of increasing fuel poverty!

Go figure; but on a day that the idiot Porrit was again lying about the 'settled science' of global warming, we face the destruction of our economy our way of life and entire outlook based on junk science and self serving propaganda.

HJ

But the Tories were right in 1997!

mac

Frankly, who cares? Whenever I see him I'm reminded of David Steel's Spitting Image incarnation.

He's another lightweight new labourite, a son of the manse, a politics groupie who worked in the real world for 5 minutes or less, hitched his star to Brown and thought he had a shining future. Brown chucked that future in the dustbin 2 years ago but he'd have been found wanting eventually anyway, just as the colossus o' Kirkcaldy has been, in fact.

Farewell, wee Dougie.

Grumpy Old Man

But New Labour WERE untested and WERE secretly more extreme and look where it got us?

mitch

Nulab are completely out of ideas at the top and its browns fault.
He is stuck in the 70s and he can only criticise the Tories not suggest anything.This "vision" he promised 2 years ago never materialised either.
Brown spent his life aiming for downing street but when he got there he didn't know why.How can people like Alexander shine with a paranoid bully at the top.?

Wight Tory

Better the devil you don't know, than the one that you do.

Strange as it may seem, even those non-political followers would see the merit in that.

Browns lies, not Brownies, have finally began to catch up with him. If only DC had said to him in PMQ's, "If you added 2 helicopers if you had three to begin with, is 66%. How many helicopters have you added to the existing fleet?"

This war, is ironically going to be Browns political nail in his coffin, it seems the whys or wherefores aren't the issue anymore, only the treatment to those doing the job - and Labour have failed them...

Andrew Zalotocky

What Dougie didn't say = anything that matters in any way whatsoever.

Bexleyite

Agreed Mac. Just like his PPS Kerry McCarthy. A waste of space in Bristol.

And totally agreed Trevorsden, except for the bit where you say, this article.

J Wright

Divide Alexanders aid budget by the cost of a Chinook helicopter,and you have some idea how much better eequippedour forces could have been. Perhaps brown should get himself down to Wotton Bassett and tell everyone how educating afgans is well worth the deaths of 175 british squadies

Andy Pandy

My memory of the end of the Tories in the late 1990s is that at a deep level many in the government realised that their time was up. But they could console themselves with the thought that the four Tory governments had been an unequivocal good for the country.

Now how honestly can Labour ministers look in the mirror and say that the Labour years have left the country in better shape. Well many will have to - as experiments shows that people have to believe that they are good and worthy and decent. How can a Labour politician who has given so many years to better the country ever see that their ideas, ideology and approach have actually done great damage.

That is why at the core that Brown (highly aspergic though he is) just cannot admit anything.

This psychological truth also explains the pathetic contortions of wee Doogie. And I fear that there will be much more from the lot of them. Only with an election victory can they see any hope of redemption - now that is a truly scary thought.

Andy Leeds

Labour are stuck in a 1970s time warp. Shirley Williams hit the nail on the head when she said that one of the problems for Labour today is that 'the haves out weigh the have nots'. Labour just dont get this.

John Levett

TrevorsDen makes a good point about this article. Alexander is a nobody and the fact that he has not offered positive domestic policy arguments is totally inconsequential when that other waste of space, Knutter Miliband - is announcing crippling new taxes, 400,000 green snoopers, 7,000-10,000 windmills (by 2020!) and the almost certain destruction of what little is left of UK industry.

And for what? To outlaw carbon, allegedly, and prevent 'dangerous climate change'. A new study confirms that carbon is not a significant climate driver and the prospect of swingeing tax grabs altering the climate is as fanciful as the belief that climate change is 'dangerous'.

I would have thought that story a better indication of New Labour's direction but with the exception of James Delingpole, the Speccie - along with the rest of the media and all but 3 of our MPs - seems to be entirely comfortable with the great climate change and carbon swindle. Why is that? Has it not occurred to the print media that its own industry with its heavy reliance on wood and the instant disposability of its products will be next in line for the climate warriors?

TrevorsDen

"but when he got there he didn't know why"

But he did. He knew best and wanted to get us all doing what he wanted. Now this 'I know best' attitude might have been well meaning, if specious, but whether Brown's aims were right or not is not the point.

Browns entire paradigm, his world view, for achieving his aims has been proved wrong. Ultimately disastrously so.

This is the problem Brown has now in explaining himself and why we must have change.
Brown is incapable of seeing and admitting where he went wrong - because of course that would sound the death knell of his career and reputation.

Yarnefromhorsham

How many more Scottish idiots do we have to put up with?