Published: Monday, 9th February, 2009 12:30pm
Brown guilty of hypocrisy
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NOW we have another Brownism - 'British Jobs for British Workers'. What a joke!
It was our Fife MP, Mr Gordon Brown, who as UK Chancellor of the Exchequer paraded 'financial prudence' and 'an end to boom and bust'. Another one of his favourites was 'not on my watch'!
Well, it has all actually happened on his watch.
It is no use pleading that it"s all a 'global recession'. As a player strutting the world stage as a master of the economic universe, Mr Brown boasted of the many countries who were following 'our example'.
Fortunately for them, some didn"t and now, for example Canada and Spain, aren"t having such a bad time as us.
Now, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) states that the UK is in the worst recession of the largest economies in the world, yet Mr Brown argues with their figures. Not, of course,at other times when he says the IMF agrees with his 'prudence'.
'British Jobs for British Workers' was as hollow in 2007 when Gordon Brownbarked it out at the Labour Party conference as it is now.
With the free movement of workers around the EU under the rules he supports, the words are not only empty, they are deceitful.
Hypocrisy is a strong charge to bring against a leading politician but I believe that it is one that can be accurately levelled at Gordon Brown.
Regrettably, the many thousands of Scots now losing their jobs will also agree.
Steve Hossack,
14 The Latch, Cairneyhill
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Feb 9 09 19:16
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There are now 2.6 MILLION foreign workers in Britain. Due to our membership of the EU, and our Government signing up to free movement of labour, which France and Germany did NOt do,we cannot control our own borders. 50,000 work permits have been issued in London alone to workers from outside the EU. With high British unemployment in the construction industry, this is madness.
Vote in May, in the European Parliament Elections for a party who bring us out of the EU vote UKIP
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cathie
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Apr 9 09 12:04
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I do not know anyone who voted for the EU. I dont know anyone who agreed that MP's MSP's should get a pay rise. They have forgotten they work for us as clerk's and clerkess...they are overpaid and over rated. I would like the belt bak in schools, the police to be able to do their job properly, human rights to apply to the White folk who's family tree is in Scotland, human rights otherwise can leave on the next flight out. And why is it that a person self employed all their life paying into the system can not get a penny in benefits if they have saved? things have to be addressed i.e. single youngsters who sponge and dont want to work they should get family allowance for 1st mistake not for 2nd, 3rd etc Scotland needs to pull its socks up.
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