Brown will he stay or will he go

Quite a lot is being written about next Labour leaders etc. On political betting they have quite an interesting piece on John Denham. The question that still has to be answered is Brown willing to step down for another.

I have read quite a few books on brown and one thread that run through them all is his love for the Labour party. Will he step down for the good of the Labour party is the one question that still remains unanswered?

One scenario would be for him to limp on until next summer, the European elections which have never been good for Labour. For Brown to be blamed for the defeat, then resign. A new leader to be announced at the party conference. The new leader will announce a general election hoping for a bounce in the polls with a few popular policies.

The people who will drive this will be the marginal MPs. There are many MPs looking at defeat who are dependant on the state and the state apparatus, electoral meltdown will destroy much of the labour party and the Labour party’s political arm.

Brown admits that the conservatives can win.

In his approach to the conservatives he is showing that the conservatives have the credibility of being a government. By asking David Cameron what his position is, he is indivertibly saying the conservatives are an option for Britain.

Labour losing touch

John Denham said today that Labour had left voters “confused”. I have been saying that for years.

Challenges we face

We have some real challenges in Southampton. With last week fast becoming but a happy memory, we real issues in Southampton have to be addressed. We have below average GCSE results, and many of the children leave the city to be educated. After years of failed labour ideology we must reverse this trend and make our schools beacons where children wish to learn.

We have a chronic problem with the roads and pavements in the city. With a backlog of circa £600 million we have real issues and have to look at alternative ways to the traditional methods of improvements to get them to the state that the residents of the city expect and demand.

The issue of crime is high on the list of many of the residents I spoke to and we have to challenge this, only today the local paper is running a story about how parks are unsafe. This has to stop, I am sure we will be speaking to the police and asking how we can reduce crime in the city where labour have badly let down the people.

Southampton reject Labour and Liberals

What a night in Southampton. We did it; I did not expect such a resounding victory, but what a great result for Southampton. I must say well done to all the conservative victors last night.

For a look at the results.

The liberals have announced the manifesto for Southampton.

They have not given any clues what they propose for the city. They have four pledges.

They are going to keep in touch all year, so you get a leaflet which they admit they lie in.

They are going to protect vital services. Which ones, they have already said they wish to cut bin collections?

Set a fair council tax. Yet the Conservatives have proposed lower tax and cuts in tax, is that not fairer?

And be open and accountable. Whoops they introduced a parking policy which would charge people to park outside their house without any consultation.

In the article they accuse the Conservatives of being less than honest over the bin collection. We have said for 5 years we will keep the weekly bin collection, we have voted on it and put it in our budgets. Equally over parking, we have said all along we will not charge people who do not pay.

They really should pay attention.

Tax Freedom Day this year will be on June 2 in 2008.

This means that you and I will have spent five months of this year working for Gordon Brown and his wayward spending.

Government spending is set to reach £600 billion – £10,000 for person in the UK this year, which is twice as much as in 1997.

Alan does not get it

Alan Whithead is very misleading on the issue of 20mph zones. He wrote to schools along Mr Denham saying how they would introduce zones.

There is a growing trend with labour for not reading detail we have the MPs cheering a budget with increases the tax on the worst off. They then rebel when they realise that it is a Labour government that is taxing the worst off in society.

We have them introducing a car parking policy in Southampton, which will allow them to introduce a charge, for residents to park outside their home, and then they deny it was a policy. Now we have the MP making claims which he can not support. The schemes that are being introduced this financial year are the ones put forward by the Conservatives I know this, because I approved them.They are not introducing any new zones. The 20 is plenty signs are going up in the next few months. So what has Labour done they put an extra 50k in the pot. It will not deliver one new zone.Did you explain that to hazel when she popped down?