Thursday, May 10, 2007
10/05/07 – BLAIR ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT
The announcement has finally arrived, roughly a week after the announcement scheduling the announcement.
It was a good speech, Labour are going to miss Blair, because they have not got anyone on a par with Blair as a major player in the cabinet.
Brown is widely expected to proceed Blair, I can not envisage him winning an election, I wouldn’t vote for him, he is responsible for some of the policies that I despise the most: the PFI programme, which for one hospital (£250,000,000.00) he has committed to paying £950,000,000.00 to the company that is funding it, all so that he can keep the debt off the national debt, so he can maintain his image as a prudent chancellor. It emerged yesterday that this government has paid out over £6 billion pounds in fraudulent tax credits £1.4 billion has been written off, and those people who have been overpaid are being forced to pay back the overpayments. So instead of bringing families out of poverty, they are now having to repay the government from their meagre means. The NHS has been given massive amounts of money which have been swallowed up by PFI projects, and which has proliferated hospital managers and necessitated nurses being laid off and junior doctors struggling to get training places.
But lets return to Blair he has shown utter contempt for parliament, announcing major constitutional changes in a cabinet reshuffle. He has presided over a perversion of the British civil service, where it has now been suggested that people are progressing because they give the answers ministers want to hear and not the truth. He has presided over new school academies which, in the midst of an obesity crisis, are left without outside spaces for sport and recreation (well one of them). The PFI building of schools, has left some schools empty because they were made obsolete but because of the terms in the contract they cannot be used for another purpose preventing a school being built for secondary school pupils being used for primary school pupils.
They have spent and squandered billions of pounds, before labour came to power we were paying 34% of national income to the government now he is leaving we are paying 40%, nearly 20% more and quite frankly not enough has changed for that to be value for money.
Finally, I think it was suitably ironic that supporters at his constituency were singing his 1997 election anthem, it is very rare that an anthem is just as applicable when you’re going out to when you’re coming in, and that anthem: “Things can only get better!”
For his faults, I bet the labour party would be wishing that he would come back to lead them again, in not the distant future. I also predict that the conservatives will begin to unveil policies, since Brown does not seem to be as capable as putting the conservatives down as Blair was, however, my previous post shows how much attention should be paid to predictions.
¶ 9:19 PM It was a good speech, Labour are going to miss Blair, because they have not got anyone on a par with Blair as a major player in the cabinet.
Brown is widely expected to proceed Blair, I can not envisage him winning an election, I wouldn’t vote for him, he is responsible for some of the policies that I despise the most: the PFI programme, which for one hospital (£250,000,000.00) he has committed to paying £950,000,000.00 to the company that is funding it, all so that he can keep the debt off the national debt, so he can maintain his image as a prudent chancellor. It emerged yesterday that this government has paid out over £6 billion pounds in fraudulent tax credits £1.4 billion has been written off, and those people who have been overpaid are being forced to pay back the overpayments. So instead of bringing families out of poverty, they are now having to repay the government from their meagre means. The NHS has been given massive amounts of money which have been swallowed up by PFI projects, and which has proliferated hospital managers and necessitated nurses being laid off and junior doctors struggling to get training places.
But lets return to Blair he has shown utter contempt for parliament, announcing major constitutional changes in a cabinet reshuffle. He has presided over a perversion of the British civil service, where it has now been suggested that people are progressing because they give the answers ministers want to hear and not the truth. He has presided over new school academies which, in the midst of an obesity crisis, are left without outside spaces for sport and recreation (well one of them). The PFI building of schools, has left some schools empty because they were made obsolete but because of the terms in the contract they cannot be used for another purpose preventing a school being built for secondary school pupils being used for primary school pupils.
They have spent and squandered billions of pounds, before labour came to power we were paying 34% of national income to the government now he is leaving we are paying 40%, nearly 20% more and quite frankly not enough has changed for that to be value for money.
Finally, I think it was suitably ironic that supporters at his constituency were singing his 1997 election anthem, it is very rare that an anthem is just as applicable when you’re going out to when you’re coming in, and that anthem: “Things can only get better!”
For his faults, I bet the labour party would be wishing that he would come back to lead them again, in not the distant future. I also predict that the conservatives will begin to unveil policies, since Brown does not seem to be as capable as putting the conservatives down as Blair was, however, my previous post shows how much attention should be paid to predictions.
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