Welcome to The Future Fair
Peter Hoskin 9:05am
So now we know. Labour's election slogan is A future fair for all. And – as various folk, including Alex, have pointed out – it's kinda screwy. As in, "we're all going to The Future Fair" kinda screwy. So don't expect it to catch on. Unless, of course, there really are bright lights, big wheels and rollercoasters on offer.
The slogan kickstarts a feverish weekend of activity. Brown is going to set out the main themes of Labour's campaign. The Tories might try to sabotage it all. And we may, possibly, perhaps, find out what the election date is. Stay tuned, so to speak.
P.S. I wouldn't be too surprised to see that slogan tweaked slightly – A fairer future for all, perhaps. Worth noting that one of the documents supporting Harman's equality bill was headlined A fairer future.



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strapworld
February 20th, 2010 9:30am Report this commentA FUTURE FREE FOR ALL.
Brown is desperate. I hope the newspapers and blogs just concentrate on what twelve years of Labour has brought this country to!
Brown deserves all the manure heaped on him possible. A despicable human being who denied our troops the support they needed and, without a doubt in my mind, contributed to many of the deaths of our brave men and women. He should be facing a Criminal Court!
The selling of gold stocks, the attack on private pensions the untold damage to the business world the list goes on and on.
Brown cannot be allowed to get away with his disgraceful record. It is a pity that Cameron has not kicked him as hard as he deserves to be kicked.
A future fair to all? What fools does Brown take the British people for?
Prodicus
February 20th, 2010 9:36am Report this commentA Future Fail For All.
You will have seen mylabourposter dot typepad dot com ?
addenough
February 20th, 2010 9:57am Report this commentStrapworld has said it all!
Liz Brown
February 20th, 2010 9:58am Report this commentA Future FOOL today
Willie de Peepul
February 20th, 2010 10:08am Report this comment"A future fair for all?"
Well, if 40 million voters don't ask, "Hey, what happened to the last thirteen years?" they damn' well ought to.
Yow Min Lye
February 20th, 2010 10:12am Report this commentRather reminds one of how communists during the Brezhnev era kept insisting that 'real existing socialism' was always just around the corner.
One more heave, comrades!
oldtimer
February 20th, 2010 10:13am Report this commentThe future fair? The UK will soon be reduced to a giant car boot sale!
John Bailey
February 20th, 2010 10:16am Report this comment"A Future fair for all....except those English MUGS!"
Watt Tyler
February 20th, 2010 10:23am Report this comment"Brown is going to set out the main themes of Labour's campaign. The Tories might try to sabotage it all",
Red EU Sock Puppet or Blue EU Sock Puppet, but which is better? There's only one way to find out...
In2minds
February 20th, 2010 10:25am Report this commentA future fair for all, does this mean things can only get better?
Neil McEvoy
February 20th, 2010 10:37am Report this commentI look forward to a future that is fair to those who have to find willing buyers to acquire the product of their labours.
But a future Labour government would continue to favour those who feed at the taxpayers' trough.
Nicholas Hallam
February 20th, 2010 10:42am Report this comment"A future fair for all" has a whiff of "bread and circuses".
Moraymint
February 20th, 2010 10:53am Report this commentAs my old mother used to say, "Life isn't fair; deal with it".
Makes me larf the way socialists think that they can engineer fairness into the blind, pitiless, indifference that is human evolution.
Sure, the state should provide a safety net for the weaker members of society and/or those who fall on hard times temporarily; this is an important role for the state.
But the idea that a bunch of politicos can socially engineer society to be "fair" is fantastic claptrap. Look where 13 years of Marxist fairness have got us thus far: bankruptcy.
Gee, are these guys stupid, or what?
welease woger
February 20th, 2010 10:55am Report this comment"What fools does Brown take the British people for?" asks Strapworld.
Well for a start there's the 30% who still seem to be intent on voting for this shower.
And then there are those who would let Brown in by the back door by not voting Conservative in a display of foot-stamping petulance because Cameron isn't the right shade of blue or they don't like his face (Vulture and Verity).
se1man
February 20th, 2010 10:59am Report this commentA Future Fair for all MPs and overpaid quango execs on recession-proof salaries and gilt-edged pensions.
But a Future F***ed for the rest of us. And our children.
My first child is exactly 8 days old. What future have you built for her, Gordon?
Vulture
February 20th, 2010 11:07am Report this commentHow about:
'The old fart who stole your gold, your pension and your freedom now wants to
f**k your future: Vote Brown and go down.'
John Bracewell
February 20th, 2010 11:29am Report this commentWell said, Welease Woger, especially the last paragraph. I do not like some of the Conservative policies on Europe, AGW and Blairisms but I will still vote for them as the only sure way to keep Brown out. Those that indulge themselves in personal attacks on Cameron (Vulture, Verity et al) should think just how bad things will be if Brown gets another 5 years. A Cameron Britain will be better than a Brown Britain and those are the only 2 feasible options.
Beer Moth
February 20th, 2010 11:31am Report this commentWatt Tyler.
EU sock puppets. Love it.
Now that's the poster campaign the public would identify with.
Maggie
February 20th, 2010 11:33am Report this commentIts a bit wordy. Luckily it can be shortened to F-off.
Frank P
February 20th, 2010 11:47am Report this comment"Vote Brown and Go Down."
CCHQ to note and pay Vulture a nice little honorarium.
Best slogan I've seen since 'Labour isn't Working."
Hope to see it on the billboards by Monday.
RKing
February 20th, 2010 11:56am Report this commentDoes "A Fair Future for All" mean that Gordon is going to lower the income tax rate to the basic rate for ALL? Regardless of income??
denis cooper
February 20th, 2010 11:58am Report this commentwelease woger, Conservatives throwing insults at those who refuse to vote Conservative merely confirms their wisdom in refusing to vote Conservative. You're much mistaken if you think I'm going to support your crap party just because it happens not to have been in government in recent years, and therefore it hasn't had as much opportunity to fully demonstrate that it's as comprehensively crap as the crap party which has been in government. As all three of the main parties are fundamentally crap - nothing more than unpatriotic, anti-democratic, corrupt, deceitful, degenerate and incompetent political gangs - it would be greatly to the advantage of the British people if all three of them were flushed down the toilet where they belong.
Jacksopx
February 20th, 2010 11:59am Report this commentfair for all....like the public sector pensions compared to private sector, or the ever rising public sector wages compared to the frozen or declining private sector wages...yeah really fair for all
Edward Sutherland
February 20th, 2010 12:00pm Report this comment"Labour: a future fear for all."
TrevorsDen
February 20th, 2010 12:05pm Report this commentA future fair?
Well the present fair has been a roller coaster ride, with a double big dipper at the end.
Brown is now saying 'labour have made mistakes' and he is saying he is not perfect.
Yep - mistakes a plenty. Perhaps he would like to list them. You can bet his list will not actually include his real mistakes.
Shock horror - Conservatives are only looking after a small minority? This has been the labour slogan for 100 years.
He talks about fairness. Society has got MORE unequal under labour - so unequal that Harman is forced to lie through her teeth when interviewed about it.
Joe Mooney
February 20th, 2010 12:15pm Report this commentIt sounds like a Furniture Fair for all or a Fun Fair for all. Going on their record it should be A future failure for all.
ollie
February 20th, 2010 12:15pm Report this commenttheat slogan is a classic piece of abstract Labour froth - it simply means nothing in any practical or real word terms. God, if the public fall for this............
Michael
February 20th, 2010 12:34pm Report this commentA future fair for all, on the state expenses roundabout. That's all they understand.
Scottish Cheeselog
February 20th, 2010 1:06pm Report this commentConsidering the present gang of sideshow freaks, hucksters, fraudsters, pickpockets, candyfluff promises, merry-go-rounds of public waste, etc etc etc, I think the past fair is bad enough. Who wants a future fair filled with more of the same?
Alexandrovich
February 20th, 2010 1:07pm Report this commentDennis Cooper: seconded. I too resent the increasingly threatening tone. They've bitched and whined about him but when push comes to shove they'll revert to type and vote Cameron.
And what's worse, Cameron knows it and has been assured by his advisors that the idiots have outlived their usefulness.
There is no longer a 'Conservative Party' that we yearned for so it makes no difference whether our continuing journey down the tubes is coloured red or blue.
I've put up with real hardship before - I can do it again, just to send a message to these arrogant bastards.
biggestaspidistra
February 20th, 2010 1:33pm Report this comment'A future fair for all' sounds like we may have to wear costumes, with bbc bonnets. 'Vote Brown and go down.' however is a jewel. Thank you Vulture.
2trueblue
February 20th, 2010 4:09pm Report this commentFrom a man who has stolen my future, my childrens future and my grandchildrens thats rich.
Roger Daley
February 20th, 2010 4:14pm Report this comment"A Future in Free Fall" will be about right.
Michael Booth
February 20th, 2010 4:24pm Report this commentWill he be pitching Tony's Big Tent at this Future Fair? Who will be manning the sideshows? Is Hattie Harman the Big Dipper and Mandelson the Bearded Lady... and who will throw Balls on the Coconut Shy? It all sounds so jolly...
Will Stanton
February 20th, 2010 4:27pm Report this commentWhat is fair about borrowing irresponsibly from 2001 and leaving it to future generations to pay the debt off?
Michael Booth
February 20th, 2010 4:27pm Report this comment'Vote Brown and go down.'
For Lord Mandelson that's an imperative.
Moraymint
February 20th, 2010 4:28pm Report this commentJohn Bracewell says, "Those that indulge themselves in personal attacks on Cameron (Vulture, Verity et al) should think just how bad things will be if Brown gets another 5 years ...".
The problem is, John, that a critical mass of the population is not yet hurting enough after 13 years of Brown's shocking management of the economy, and the Labour government's systematic destruction of British society: particularly uncontrolled immigration, a catastrophic decline in education standards and rampant welfarism.
The nation is now on a socio-economic knife-edge, but still far too many citizens are blissfully unaware of the dire state we're in. Throw in the Labour government's legendary capacity for propaganda, spin and full-on deceit and you have a recipe for 5 more years of Labour in power.
I am so frustrated with the Tories' inability both to educate our dumbed-down citizenry as to just how parlous is the economic situation, and to fail to skewer Gordon Brown's constant stream of fantastic political pronouncements - which usually bear no relation whatsoever to reality - that I find myself willing a Labour election victory.
It seems to me that only when a true majority of British citizens are on the receiving end of the catastrophe-around-the-corner will our political class and political systems be thoroughly shaken up (I'm thinking street riots here, it's that bad).
I really do shudder at the prospect of another 5 years of Brown - the man is a complete maniac - but I'm equally alarmed at the prospect of a Tory government with a thin majority and a paucity of effective economic and political policies. I still haven't a clue what they really believe in, what they intend to do in power and, moreover, how they intend to avert imminent economic meltdown.
A Tory government deploying the inconsistent and non-policies we're hearing about every day would probably result in many years of political and socio-economic agony. Under another Labour government we'd crash and burn overnight, primarily courtesy of the bond markets. For me, the lesser of two evils could well be the latter.
It would also come with the added benefit of watching the Labour Party having to eat its own s**t before disappearing into oblivion.
RKing
February 20th, 2010 5:21pm Report this comment"VOTE FOR BROWN AND WE'LL ALL DROWN"
(scammed from Vulture's quote)
Moraymint
February 20th, 2010 5:33pm Report this commentThat quiff in Gordon Brown's hair in the picture makes him look like Superman, doesn't it?
To quote Homer Simpson, "I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman!"
Frank P
February 20th, 2010 5:39pm Report this commentA future fair for all?
Surely a fête worse than death!
Vulture
February 20th, 2010 6:11pm Report this commentBrown and Out.
Brown Bread.
Browned Off.
Throw out the Brown Frown. Happy Daves are here again!
Sevo
February 20th, 2010 7:19pm Report this commentYes, a future fair for all....
- except if you're English
- or just graduated from uni with a worthless degree
- or a brilliant uni candidate with middle-class parents
- or someone who has worked and saved all his life
- or a young couple trying to buy their first home
- or a former employee of Corus
- or Rover, or Jaguar, or most other manufacturers
- or an honest, non-violent person living on a sink estate
- or a small businessman trying to get a bank loan
- or a Christian wishing to wear a symbol of your faith
- or a retired person in Spain with a shrunken-pound pension
- or a retired person forced to buy a near-worthless annuity
- or a person trying to defend his family from yobs
- or a homeowner trying to fit an extra can in the wheelie bin
- or a car owner trying to fend off cowboy clampers
- or a pensioner with the "wrong" (i.e. private sector) pension
- or a child facing a couple of trillion in national debt
Yes, the future is bright. Like the light of an oncoming train...
Thanks Gordon. Will we take a second look? Yes, a forensic one in fact. Just call the election, you coward.
Moraymint
February 20th, 2010 8:21pm Report this commentSevo ... neat! We like that post. "We" being Mrs Moraymint and me.
michael
February 21st, 2010 12:21pm Report this commentWelcome to the future fair-
-for all it holds are coffers bare.
From Gordon, smug with in his lair-
-"I've spent the lot and more...so there!"
Birch A T
February 21st, 2010 12:38pm Report this commenta future fair is that better or worse then the present three ring circus he´s running
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