Labour put "guarantees" at the heart of their campaign

Number7

Does anybody his manifesto promise of a referendum on the EU Constitution?

All he and his troops can do is lie through their teeth.

Billy Blofeld

I Gordon Brown guarantee that I will end boom and bust.

AGM

I would NOT believe Brown if he told me today was Thursday - his track record is so bad. Even his comments about Dave having been airbrushed on the posters turns out to be FALSE. Can he say nothing that is truthful!

Hawkeye

Can we have a speech bubble on that picture of Gordon? "This bit here's mine.....all mine"

strapworld

Like his recent guarantee that we would not run out of road salt!

That we would be the first country out of recession.

That he ended boom and bust.

That we would have a referendum on the EU Constitution.

That he would provide whatever the troops wanted (When he knew he had stopped them getting the helicopters they urgently required!)

That he would ensure Army training would not be cut..IT HAS!

Britain is safe under Labour IT CERTAINLY IS NOT!

I am sure you could think of more guarantee's this incompetent liar has proved to be a renegade

Grumpy Optimist

The only way to counter this is by redicule and metaphor. Gordon just can't stop making promises you know he can't keep. He's incontinent. He is like the wife beater who promises to stop - for the umpteenth time. You know he won't. Or the alcoholic who promises to stop - but pleads for one more night out on the town. Or the dieter who promises to lose weight and then goes straight back to the fridge. Or maybe you say that we would only trust Labour if they had an operation first to tie up their gut. But we fear that the operation might kill them.

Billy Blofeld

P.S. Nice picture of Gordon in Weather-Girl mode.

se1man

Is he doing a weather forecast?

Nicholas

Number one rings a bell. Haven't we seen that one before - oh, about 13 years ago?

wrinkled weasel

So, OK, nobody on here believes it. But HIGNFY! People who vote Labour, and who always have and who always will because their dad did, will. Not only that, the 4 million public sector workers, who have had their jobs created under Labour will. As will the people on benefits who have nothing to lose but their cushy little ride. Or the thousands of failed asylum seekers - at least 20,000 Somalis come under this tag alone, in BRISTOL!

There used to be a thing called Gerrymandering. It seems to have had a renaissance under New Labour.

You don't need to convince the growing number of elderly people who have seen their savings and pensions disappear - they may be fooled by the nice man at the door who just wants to check their biscuit tin, but they are not stupid enough to believe Gordon Brown.

They can say what they like. It is not about promises, because we know they are broken; Lying is the default for Labour. What is really going on is the kind of nasty, dirty trickery they are currently resorting to:

http://order-order.com/2010/01/14/exclusive-labour-faked-cameron-airbrushing/

What puzzles me is why they did not try to make him look more Jewish, while they were at it.

Alan Douglas

I'd settle for a Gordon Brown guarantee to actually ANSWER ANY opposition Q at PMQs. But I'm not holding my breath.

Alan Douglas

Michael Booth

ha ha ha ha
guarantees from Gordon Brown? Ha ha ha

Time we gave him a guarantee - a sound thrashing at the ballot box and a seat in the dock for crimes against the British people...

charles hercock

Guarantee 2 not affordable if guarantee 5 is met.Get real Gordon.Your credibility gap is widening

NickW

Someone has Blair's pledgecard from 1997.

Fail on all of them.

Just remind everybody how well labour keeps its word.

oldtimer

"Guarantee" is an anagram for "urea agent". Urea has a nasty smell to it, unsurprisingly as it is a compound found in the urine of mammals. Sounds very appropriate for a Labour party manifesto.

NickW

Here is a Tony Blair election pledge, aka.guarantee.

We will set tough rules for government spending and borrowing and ensure low inflation and strengthen the economy so that interest rates are as low as possible to make all families better off.

I am sure that Brown's promises are equally worthless.

Yam Yam

A man whose government is in debt to the tune of £759 billion is not in a position to guarantee anything.

welshy

This strikes me as a tactical mistake - brown and his party do not have the trust / likeable factor to pull this off.

Besides that, it is an opposition tactic - because people cannot ask the opposition:

what pledges to get in power last time have you broken? e.g. eu vote is a clear issue any numpty can understand

why have you not already done it in a decade in power?

The longer labour goes on like this, the better for the tories - more iraq inquiry, more infighting, more time for double dip recession, another budget, more time for gilts market to force cuts debate, more of unwanted brown (does every paper now hate him!?). You do have to wonder why labour mps in marginal seats are not trying to do something about this!? Are they really this much like lemmings walking off a cliff?

Tankus

just noise for a headline

Alexander Pelling

Brown's 'guarantees' are sure to go the same way as his 'golden rule': when the going gets tough he will either redefine them or ignore them altogether. This country doesn't need grandiose, unenforceable 'guarantees': it needs quiet, competent government.

Dennis Churchill

Surely not even our political class are so removed from reality they would leave the opposition with such an open goal? No one believes anything any British politiciansays.Referendum guarantees, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Tough on crime, control immigration...

logdon

Caption

Let's not talk about this bit. All I'm interested in, even though I was never elected in that country is that huge swathe of lab rat tax donators in England.

In2minds

Labour "guarantees" - I'll swap the lot for a vote on membership of the EU, would they guarantee that? They lied on Lisbon.

Chuck Unsworth

Simple enough:

Do you trust this man?

JONNY

Seems we're going to need an oyster knife with exceptional cutting edge
to prise this belly-footed Gasterapoda off the rock face.
However be warned. It is stupefying with what obdurate obstinacy the Limpet will cling and adhere.

Robert Williams

Brown rattled off a similar list of guarantees at yesterday's PMQs, a pity that Cameron didn't reply along the lines of comments above.

Rhys

Brown: "I guarantee....you'd wished you emigrated 3 years ago."

AAE

It's time to stop all this manifesto nonsense. With our lives being crippled by taxation and so many freedoms lost by government intervention never forementioned in any manifesto, we should have a proper contract with the government. They would then be bound by contract law and these pledges of wishful thinking and political posturing would stop. It's outrageous that a 700 billion pound economy should be run by total amateurs, and that one half of society which takes all the risks and absorbs all the blows should pay to keep the other half cushioned with benefits to which the first half are not themselves entitled.

toco

I wouldn't trust the hapless Brown to sit the right way on the proverbial and having seen him work closely with the disgraced Damian McBride,Charlie Whelan,Derek Draper and Alistair Campbell why should the British electorate.

Marcher Baron

Fine words butter no parsnips. His track record is abysmal and that's what we'll judge him on (except for Labour tribalists, of course, who think all the current problems are down to Mrs Thatcher).

Alan Douglas

"Would YOU buy a used promise from this Man ?" next to a pic of GB, or even one of Nixon - would anyone know the difference ?

Alan Douglas

Derek

Caption.

"...and this is where we will regroup after the election."

Beer Moth

Never mind what he looks like, let's just compare what he says with what he does.

As in, for instance, 'British jobs for British people'.

Naomi Muse

see1man said: Is he doing a weather forecast?

Nah. He's just covering up Scotland.

Broon is not honest and not able to guarantee anything except that he will be delusional and dishonest.

He has let us all down, big time and has poisoned the civil service too with his pursuit of non-goals such as targets, when the real goals are to provide what we all need and enable business to thrive.

On those he has failed miserably but won't say, 'sorry' except for someone else's misdemeanours.

A man to be derided, in truth.

Michael Booth

as was established the other week, no manifesto promise is legally binding

so what's the point?

Frank Leader

Arthur Daley's Guarantee would Cast Iron compared to any from G Brown.

richardj

I suspect that Gordon will became as popular a name as Adolf.