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Brownies Backfire

Jeff Randall has an article in the Telegraph showing how Gordon Brown’s liesBrownies about cuts is spectacularly backfiring.  Of course this  is a surprise to no-one really, however Jeff does some good summing up of the issues such as

Smell the burning rubber; hear the screeching brakes. Watch in awe as the wheels fly off and the chassis crumples. Then avert your eyes, because the final crash is ugly. As the Prime Minister’s bandwagon of deceit slams into a wall of immovable realities, the Government’s casualties are piling up. Crushed in the wreckage are the careers and self-regard of Labour ministers who did not see it coming. It never occurred to them that the driver would lose control of their carriage. But he has – and there’s no escape.

This is the nub of the issue, Ministers who despite more than two years of warnings that the track they were taking was heading was out of control, just ignored the issue as they feared to stand up to Gordon and his minions. After his problems with the election that never was, it was obvious that they had chosen poorly and the coronation was going wrong. Despite this and all the following problems they continued to follow the track until now we are past the point of no return. Their are no points left to change track and only the buffers at the end of the track await the final resounding crash. All they can do is watch and wait to see how hard the crash is.

Jeff’s final paragraph’s highlight the endgame for this Labour Government.

“Fear,” said John Adams, second president of the United States, “is the foundation of most governments.” In the case of modern Britain, it is more like panic, caused by a fundamental disconnection between common sense and the First Lord of the Treasury’s fantastic numbers. Which helps explain why, against all his political instincts, the Prime Minister has been forced this week to begin manipulating the texture of Labour’s promises.

As if nobody would notice, key words are being replaced by more subtle substitutes. This is subversion by semantics, the politics of Animal Farm. From the Snowball guide to language and meaning, Mr Brown’s hard-and-fast guarantees are now “aims”, public spending commitments become “estimates” and the delivery of front-line services gets attached to several big “ifs”, including the generation of growth and finding efficiencies.

What we are witnessing is an inelegant retreat. No apology, of course. No admission of failure. Nothing vulgar, like humility or contrition. Just a cynical slip-sliding away from the main plank of Mr Brown’s message in last month’s local and European elections: “It is vital that people realise they face a choice between our commitment to investment and the Tories’ commitment to cuts.”

Having been rejected by voters, the vacuity of that proposition was exposed with comedic brilliance by the Prime Minister himself in the Commons on Wednesday. By admitting that “total spending will continue to rise, and it will be a zero per cent rise in 2013-14″, he gave us another of those YouTube moments for which his blunder-prone stewardship is deservedly earning a reputation.

For someone who was once the master of the selective statistic, Mr Brown has completely lost his touch. As he bumbled through the rest of his answer, the looks on the faces of his pom-pom girls, Harriet Harman and Tessa Jowell, were priceless: unbridled horror. Their days are numbered.

This is the brutal truth, it is not just the current liesBrownies that hase backfired but the whole unholy coronation of Brown. Whilst he is in charge we will have Government by panic as we await yet more of his follies to crash and burn.

Don’t worry though Brown has another Master Plan on the go. Now it is to blame the Tories for all the problems as they are being nasty to him and exposing his liesBrownies by telling the truth.  In this article from Channel 4 News he explains how the Tories are being nasty by exposing his liesBrownies

“If someone is called dishonest, there is an assumption that there is some wilful desire to mislead and that there is some corruption involved, I don’t think that is the case. What we are trying to do at the moment is to get the country through a very difficult period and the language of politics is sometimes not well suited to the need for the country to work together to get out of recession. There is a crudity developed in the language that people use in politics that people are now accepting as almost everyday language. People have got to think twice before they make accusations. I do not make personal attacks on people. I have tried to avoid doing that during my political career. But equally I understand that the language of politics can sometimes descend into people making quite crude accusations.”

Unfortunately after this he then goes onto say

He insisted that the decision to abandon the part-privatisation of Royal Mail was purely because the bids were not good enough, but opponents say he ducked fighting for the bill in parliament because of internal Labour opposition.

“We could go through months and months of discussion,” he said. “But if the investment is not there, then we are not able to implement that legislation. We are going to wait until we see if the investors are able to come along.”

“The Royal Mail has its own modernisation plan that they have got to push ahead with. Secondly we have got to look at means by which we can get investment into the Royal Mail. That is what we will be looking at over the next few months.”

Challenged that the government has retreated on policies like an Iraq war enquiry, ID cards and Royal Mail because the prime minister does not have the authority to push them through, Gordon Brown said: “Our policy is to get growth into the economy, to get jobs, and to build better public services for the future.”

This is of course just another huge Brownie. He knows that all of these once touted policy mainstays of his government have no chance of becoming law as he can no longer pass them through Parliament without huge resistance and further challenges to his leadership, so instead be hides behind his Brownies and blusters on.

Brown’s biggest  issue now is that no-one believes or has confidence in him, not his ministers, not his MP’s, not the electorate, not Business  Leaders, not World Leaders.  Trying to play the poor bullied boy is just a nonsense, this is the man who employed the likes of McBride to stab people in the back rather than take them on in public.

The real question is do  we want Honesty, Openness and Transparency or do we want to continue with Brown’s Lies, Deceit and Underhand tactics.

Gordon Brown’s attack on Tory cuts has backfired in spectacular fashion – Telegraph.