Mr Gordon Brown's bottomless pockets
I am becoming very concerned that our Prime Minister is becoming increasingly out of control where spending our money is involved. Each time he goes abroad, he makes speeches promising huge sums of money to the people he talks to. Since he came to power, his total giveaway in this respect is eye-popping.
Very recently he unilaterally announced that the UK would shoulder one quarter of the EU's donation to Developing Countries for help with alleged Global Warming problems.
There are 27 countries in the EU and I don't see why on earth should we pay 25% of the sum due? Yes, rich countries must share their wealth with those who are poorer. We did this when we had the world's 4th most prosperous economy. But we are now a financial wreck, slipping deeper into bankruptcy with every day that passes.
Mr Gordon Brown perhaps ought to recall that charity begins at home...
My own view is that Mr Gordon Brown is now so desperate for popularity that, realising he cannot get it in this country, he must go abroad to scatter largesse in all directions and so win the gratitude he craves. Mr Gordon Brown (possibly we should now call him 'Lord Bountiful'?) perhaps ought to recall that charity begins at home. The people of Cumbria, homes devastated by last month's flood damage, would have been more deserving recipients of this huge sum of money, which will now disappear abroad.
Mr Gordon Brown would no doubt ignore this advice. But can someone please stop him from going abroad again and spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave? It is we taxpayers who must pay for this, long after Mr Gordon Brown is history.
By: Oracle2009
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It is like being back in 1912 on the sinking Titanic, with Gordon going around making more holes to be sure.
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Gainsborough lad. - 7-Feb-10 20:14
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Good old Gordon didn't worry about this a few years ago did he when he sold all the countrys gold reserves at a knock down price.
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Gainsborough lad. - 24-Jan-10 22:18
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miserablemoaninggit - 28-Dec-09 11:23
Looks like he is suffering from 2010 vision.
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Gainsborough lad. - 27-Dec-09 20:49
Remember the majority who post comments on the internet are middle class bourgeois people who can afford time and money. They are promulgating a point of view of promoting capitalis,, and its evil ways. They are subverting the thoughts of the workers.
This is precisely what the government is doing all the time.
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Mafiosi All Around You - 27-Dec-09 10:36
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Gainsborough lad. - 21-Dec-09 23:17
But since labour came to power they have invented another "million" extra public sector jobs, this is fact, I wouldn't have thought that for a minute all these extra jobs were all necessary, the fact is that the government are having to borrow billions in bailout money to keep this micky mouse ecconomy ticking over,
The average man on the street is broke, more and more tax come out of his wages, to pay for the ballooning public sectors wages and pensions, don't be offended if your public sector job is a neccesary one, but face up to the truth if you are a box-ticking, paper-shuffling, telephone answering wasterer.
And lets just say if their job is not really neccesary, and a lot of their pay goes back into the ecconomy, what is the point here? lets cut out the middle-man and give the cash straight to the factories for investment instead.
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Gainsborough lad. - 21-Dec-09 23:13
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Never mind if the people who pay all these taxes, (including council taxes) don't have pensions themselves, or can't afford to heat AND eat,
Keep robbing the workers, keep increasing the tax, inflation and bankruptcy are on the way.
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Gainsborough lad. - 20-Dec-09 07:02
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*New Labour Old Scum
Excuse me, what about the Welsh - haven't we also paid exorbitant taxes? And the Scots and people in Northern Ireland? Basically, it's not just English people taxes that are being frittered away. Everyone in the UK suffers. We need looking after as well, look you now (!)
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