Brown wants to discuss nothing besides the middle class

Nick

It beggars belief that the Tories economic competency was destroyed for a generation by Black Wednesday, despite the policy of shadowing the DeutscheMark being supported by all the opposition parties, the City establishment and media, and yet the abject failure of Brown's economic stewardship is still characterised as "succesfully seeing us through the banking crisis."

Billericay Dave

13 years of this oaf is all you need to remember, 13 years of stealth taxes, 13 years of lies, 13 years of spin, 13 years of increasing the state, 13 years of destroying the economy.

Dehsinif Si Ruobal

Gordon Brown loves to talk about how he reduced the deficit and turned it into a surplus in the first three years of the Labour Government. What he omits to say is that he did this by sticking to Ken Clarke's spending plans and that the deficit reduction had commenced well before he became Chancellor. Gordon Brown's legacy will be to have doubled overall debt from 40% to 80% of GDP and to have increased the deficit by 500%. This is what the Tories should be talking about.

toco

Are there no depths to which this man will not lower himself.To use his deceased daughter and the rest of his family to garner votes is sick,sick,sick...he is an absolute disgrace and clearly seems to be unwell.He is the sort of person who arrives at a party uninvited and most certainly unwanted.

Chuck Unsworth

At its simplest Brown has no credibility. Obviously he believes that the middle class is incapable of seeing through all this waffle. Why does Brown believe they are so incredibly stupid? Is it because he has never had to face the rage and contempt of the electorate? Does he seriously think that his broken promises, dissimulation, outright lies over a decade and more can simply be wiped out with a hint of a bribe or two?

The middle class has learned to study the small print. Unless Brown can provide guarantees, none of his blandishments will be accepted - and guarantees are the one thing he cannot offer.

But then the whole Labour Party seems not to understand how much they are loathed. Maybe they'll wake up at the hustings.

Chris lancashire

This incompetent bully has spent 13 years taxing the middle classes and now wants to be its friend? And note, not by reducing the burden but by distributing more state largesse - Sure Start and Tax Credits - out of the proceeds of taxing that same class.

Bugger off and leave the middle class to spend its own money.

Percy

Brown is such an abject failure, how can any interviewer take this joke seriously. The press should really be asking how such a talentless, stupid, childish man ever became Prime Minister.

Nicholas

It's Sunday - and so far you have managed to spoil my day with two photos of Brown The Moron looking like a moron, and one of Grinning Bliar and that arch-shit Campbell enjoying the high life together (although Campbell looks as though he has just swallowed a dead rat). Do you think in the next post you might try for something uplifting, inspiring, aspiring, perhaps even spiritual?

As a change from your 24/7 obsession with the fortunes of New Labour, say?

TGF UKIP

Brown is like some punch-drunk old heavyweight wheeling round the ring flailing out with desperate random punches all over the place.

Unfortunately, he has Butterfly Cameron as his opponent which is why he is still on his feet and likely to remain that way.

JONNY

Yoy should tune into PMQs one of these days TGF

TrevorsDen

TGF UKIP once again beggars belief. This was an interview in the rampant left wing sycophantic Observer. Its not got anything to do with Cameron.

Cameron just wiped the floor with Brown at the last PMQs, but for UKIP given a choice of printing the truth or the legend he prints the legend.

Suffice it to say that Brown has spent 13 years stuffing the middle classes and his words now carry no credibility. And of course the deficit has gone up not down, any newspaper which publishes the opposite is a disreputable rag.

Tiberius

As you almost say, TGF, float like a butterfly sting like a bee.

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andrew

Why haven't the Conservative's adopted the preface "Gordon Brown's" to every use of the words "debt", "recession" and "deficit". All of them, at every speech, TV appearance and doorstep. He mustn't get away from it.

Alex

TGF UKIP / Verity - the persistent NuLab troll

Colin

Anyone who thinks this monster is down and out, is a fool.

The sooner Cameron and co wake up to the fact that they have a serious struggle on their hands, the better.

Does anyone really think these crooks will relinquish power without a serious fight?

Just imagine what Brown and his comrades are thinking right now? They're staring electoral oblivion in the face, but worse than that...

Just think of all the bodies they buried, all over Whitehall, Fleet Street and the City, being dug up, one by one. Just imagine all the decent people they pissed off and all the old scores being totted up, ready to be settled. there's no way they're going quietly.

These creatures will make Mugabe look like a paragon of fair play and decency, when they really get after Dave and his chums.

stephen

I despair of our Dave! He just does not seem to be able to land anything like a KO on Brown. Boy George is no match for Darling and Lord Mandy is outspinning the Tories and enjoying every minute of their weakness and flip flop.

In the good old days of the Tory party the "Magic Circle" of the Tory party would have met at the Carlton Club and our Dave would have had his horoscope read to him.! You need steel and determination to win an election its still not too late for the Tories to say goodbye to their weakest links!

cityboozer

Please excuse the shouting but WHY WILL NOBODY TALK ABOUT THE "GOLDEN RULES" ANY MORE? That hopeless liar got a lot of good press for some simple, easily understood, apparently justifiable restraints on fiscal policy. They were mentioned positively in every story about fiscal matters for about six or seven years.

It turns out to habe been an utter lie. The bond markets are gearing up to take their revenge and it will hurt, but it will hurt the electorate who do not change with the government. The media fell for it too. Time for them to extract their brutal revenge.

Do it you lazy bastards. A new promise is news, and a broken old one is not, if broken carefully. but either you overpaid hacks are a serious counterweght or you are not. Find a way to do it. Brown is carrion and it will be cost-free (unless you are bonkers enough to believe that Balls has a future) but it will carry a bonus that the same techniques will work against the next government.

Dirty Euro

The lower middle class need labour as much as the working class do. Not everyone in the middle classes owns a villa in the south of France belongs to local golf club and drives a rolls royce.
Middle England is not Kensington and Chelasea it is Dagenham.

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Rather than call Gordon Brown a bloody liar, it is kinder to call him that poor lunatic who has delusions of grandour. After his great master plan for personal care in their own homes for the elderly was found to be inoperable, he has come up with another stunt. Personal, specially trained cancer nurses to treat each unfortunate sufferer at home, saving them trips to the hospital. In the meantime, helpless patients are dying from dehydration and starvatiion in their hospital beds since nobody bothers to feed them if they cannot manage it themselves. The rates for cancer survival are amongst the lowest in the developed world, but that raving lunatic babbles on.

General Zod

People like Stephen would have stabbed John Major in the back before the 1992 election. They will also manufacture reasons why they would have been right to do so and a right wing Tory agenda would have won back power in a 1997 election.

TGF UKIP

Tiberius, I bet you wish he did. Unfortunately for you and your sidekicks, Stephen gets it spot on.

TrevorsDen

Brown bent his 'golden rule' by changing the dates of the economic cycle.

'just like that' - the Tommy Cooper of politics.

Austin Barry

"...but his reason is clear: Brown doesn’t want to debate the economy."

And none of the principal parties want to discuss immigration, Europe or Afghanistan.

We do indeed appear to be living in what Mark Steyn identifies as an anti-democratic "Declinistan" - a staging-post to Dystopistan.

toni

@toco.
It is your remark that is a disgrace.
Whilst you and the Spekkie editors refuse to acknowledge, or print my rebuff to you, that Cameron has been more than happy to use his disabled, now deceased son, from the time he was elected leader, to 'garner' votes.
The man's a PR expert for goodness sake.
I suggest that you replace 'deceased daughter' with 'disabled, now deceased son' and accept that your comment may suit the Spekkie but it is truly hypocritical.