Is it me or has watching politics become a painful experience. The power ebbing away from Gordon Brown this week has left his authority totally shot to pieces. Blairites and the left within the Labour party smell blood, and lets face it, when you have a former Cabinet Minister openly saying he is ashamed of his party and his Government, things can hardly get any worse.
With the country in the heart of a deep and damaging economic downturn, now is not the time for a Government without any sense of purpose and direction. Brown as the architect of this recession with his lust for the phantom finance of casino capitalism has ‘banked’ his and his party’s credibility on a return to economic growth before the General Election next year. To achieve this he is yet again trying to fuel the housing and personal debt bubbles that brought about the recession, and bankrupted the state to preserve a discredited banking system and the jobs of the super rich who got us into this mess.
The problem for Joe public is that the likely political beneficiaries are even more zealot followers of Thatcherism. If Brown was a son of Thatcher, Cameron and Osbourne are her even more faithful grandkids. What a sham of a political system we’ve got when none of the main parties can offer a different economic and social model.
As for the Prime Minister, will someone do the poor man a favour and put him out of his misery.
With the country in the heart of a deep and damaging economic downturn, now is not the time for a Government without any sense of purpose and direction. Brown as the architect of this recession with his lust for the phantom finance of casino capitalism has ‘banked’ his and his party’s credibility on a return to economic growth before the General Election next year. To achieve this he is yet again trying to fuel the housing and personal debt bubbles that brought about the recession, and bankrupted the state to preserve a discredited banking system and the jobs of the super rich who got us into this mess.
The problem for Joe public is that the likely political beneficiaries are even more zealot followers of Thatcherism. If Brown was a son of Thatcher, Cameron and Osbourne are her even more faithful grandkids. What a sham of a political system we’ve got when none of the main parties can offer a different economic and social model.
As for the Prime Minister, will someone do the poor man a favour and put him out of his misery.
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