Damian Green Arrest

Well, here we are a few days after the latest distraction effort and dirty trick to come from somewhere in Westminister. So who's turn was it? I write 'turn' because from time to time most politicians of rank will use a trick or two.  You probably already guessed, but it was Jacqui Smith...Home Office diva and cabinet member.

I wonder if she discussed this with Gordon? Of course she did.....no matter what they might say. 

So the Home Office send anti-terror officers to arrest an MP...a  Conservative MP. The government gave the people of this country an assurance that they would never abuse the powers they gave themselves when invoking their version of the American Patriot Act (Acts 1&2).

The arrest of Damian Green MP (Shadow Immigration Minister) shows the Brown Government are struggling. It also shows the government, (in sending anti-terror police to the home of an MP),  was clearly heavy-handed but also an abuse of power by whoever ordered the investigation and arrest. These things do not happen by accident.

We have a shortage of real bona fide police in the UK and the Home Office does something like this...my word what a waste of a scarce and valuable resource. If the threat level is so high for the UK and London in particular how can the Metropolitan Police afford to send these officers to arrest an MP...is he armed to the teeth? Is he an Arnie, Bruce Willis or Stallone type? No he isn't he just spoke out of turn apparently.

Please remember...Gordon never had anything to do with this at all...just like the attempted Brown designed coup on Tony Blair while he was the PM.

If Gordon Brown remains where he is Labour will fall at the next general election. If they get rid they might just survive. They just need to get rid of people like Tony McNulty, the truly awful Hazel Blears and...Jacqui Smith at the same time.  

Lost data is one thing...they don't really care as much as the Daily Mail pretends that it does but a lost election hurts like hell.

Think on Labour...he is taking you down and his arrogance is causing him to hold onto the wheel of the sinking ship while insisting he is right.

Set the agenda.

I have always voted Labour in general elections. But not anymore...this time will be different. The pattern of change began in local elections because the local labour councillors are invisible, whereas the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats actually act to benefit the local community as a whole.

I always voted labour in general elections because I believe in social equity and responsibility. I believe in the power of co-ordinated action, but also in the power and responsibility of the individual. I grew-up while the Tories under Margaret Thatcher laid waste to the manufacturing base of the UK and the northern cities that had made this country rich in times past. The Tories, through some deliberate actions and other ommission of actions failed the vast majority of the population of this country in many respects.

For me, one of the major reasons why the Tories lost out to New Labour under Tony Blair was their arrogance. I believe the voting public saw this, and saw Labour under Blair as electable and as the only route to change.

Now we have Gordon Brown, who tried to oust Tony Blair on a few occasions, based on an agreement they had. GB tried to enforce the agreement on a few occasions by getting his backers to try and outsmart Blair and force his resignation. This did not work, Blair went in his own time, but Gordon backed away saying 'I had nothing to do with it' when each attempt failed.

Gordon Brown wanted the position, power and prestige of the office of Prime Minister without facing an election. I think this is because it is an easier option for him, but also because he lacks the charisma and personality that is required to carry a party and an election. You may disagree with this.... but clearly, when he backed Blair and the 'agreement' was reached about the succession Gordon was acknowledging this.

Gordon Brown has had some success in the economy, but character is tested during storms such as we have now. Gordon will borrow and loan his way out of this crisis if he can, and we will pay for it.

The real problem is that the system is broke and Labour and Conservative helped to make it and break it.  We all have our part to play in this crisis, it is not just the responsibility of the Government and the banks...we are where we are because we ask, they lend and both the public and the Labour government have been borrowing an awful lot.

Gordon is not the prudent purse carrying Chancellor/ Prime Minister he would have us believe. The Tories can only come up with what it thinks we want to hear...and both parties talk of tax cuts...giving some of the money back to us that they took in the first place. I know the best way to support my family...but Gordon thinks he knows my priorities and how best to support my family.

Also, PM Brown wants us all to believe he has all the answers, and so does Cameron. Neither of them actually have all the answers, and we should not expect them to.

But more importantly...what agenda are we going to set for the next election? What questions are we going to ask of these two parties? These parties have managed, over many years to convince most voters that it is a choice between themselves only. That is arrogant and untrue.

It is now, more than ever, that we need the Liberal Democrats to tell us what they are about, instead of hoping for the odd by-election, council or general election gain.

I sincerley hope after the next general election that we are saying 'Gordon who?'

Government by popular outrage and adoption of 'Daily Mailism' by both of the leading parties is just not good enough. In their arrogance the two biggest parties believe they know what is best for us, they set their own agenda and we follow it.

We should let them know we know, and we should set the agenda...theirs do not work.