Afghanistan

there is talk, 'Careless talk costs lives', that Gordon will soon announce a further increase to our troops in Afghanistan. This needs to be agreed in Parliament, with a clear mission statement, what is the purpose, when will they be withdrawn, what will be the point in sending our soldiers to fight an unwinnable war.

Some commentators refer to the situation in Afghanistan as being the 'wrong war, wrong place', well I would add that there is a very old military term which is more applicable, 'never reinforce defeat'. We, being the allies, have lost the war Afghanistan/Pakistan. There never will be a victory, so what is the point in continuing with the killing. We are the problem and never can be the solution. I want the supine MPs to have the opportunity to debate this issue in the House of Commons, and Lords, so that we know what the politicians think they are doing.

I mean, it would seem that we should have a British army for British people, no foreigners in the military, they might not follow orders.

Unearned income

I was listenig to the Radio 4 Today programme this morning and I heard something which quite interested me. It was in respect of making online tax returns.

We were told that it is secure and that nobody need worry. Then I think I heard them say that there were special arrangements in place for just a few groups. Amongst this group, why our wonderful open, absolutely honest, and incorruptable MPs.

Why should they be treated differently. Why do they not have to do the same as us mortals.

I would like questions to be asked, especially as they seem to be able to claim allowances which are not spent on the purpose for which they have been given.

For example, let us say that they receive GBP150 for overnight accomodation. They then only spend GBP30, so how is the other GBP120 treated. Surely this is unearned income and should be taxed, with Income Tax and National Insurance. Or am I completely wrong on this?

I think we need some answers, especially after certain revelations.

John Martyn

some times something in us just dies. All this about an MPs and his expenses. Some of the Lords with allegations relating to payments for consultancy. Sad days for Britain and democracy. Loss of life in Sri Lanka, Gaza, Afghanistan all this stuff is enough to make you weep.

However, I'm nearly sixty and I used to go to folk clubs, for example Les Cousins, and listen to the music with a very dear person who I loved very much indeed. Why do I tell you this, because today John Martyn has died, and something within me has died.

Lords

listened to One o'clock news on Radio 4 and Lord Scholey was interviewed. He was saying that he gets £29,000 from consultancies. Now why should he get that money.

Apparently, he is in favour of expansion of Heathrow airport. Now, in future, I think when anybody is interviewed they must supply a complete schedule of all monies received, including how much, for how long and who from.

Surely, any elected MP, or member of the House of Lords, all councillors, City, County and District must also put onto a web site the amounts of money they receive, who from and for how long. Let's have proper detailed transparency. If you like I too will put all of my details on this site, I have nothing to fear. What do these people do for any money they may receive. This is no longer a representative democracy.

Retail Prices Index

surely people can see that deflation is more of a problem than the commentators are talking about.

If you cannot sell a product for more than the cost of production then the cost of production has to be reduced. This is through either job losses or reduced wages, or a combination of both.

I detect a threat to the link of pensions to the Retail Prices index. The government will say that to link pensions to the RPI is now not relevant and the the link ought to be to the Consumer Prices index.

Furthermore, this government wants to link pensions to wages, well with wages falling that is a really good idea, is it not. I say no.

Banks and losses

That is the point, there will be no dividends. That has implications on the pension funds as well. Without dividends they will have to start selling assets to meet the pension liabilities, there will be no new staff to contribute to the existing pensioners. As soon as the funds coming into the funds fall below contributions then we are in trouble.

The demographic nuclear time bomb is about to explode, the number of receivers of pensions soon will exceed the contributors to those schemes.

There is absolutely no value which you can give to shares. Some of the biggest holders of the banks shares are the current and former staff, they will lose everything.

Finally, the banks will soon start losing the income they get from actually managing the assets of the pension funds. The money they receive for safe custody and investment management fees will soon start affecting the profits of the investment banks. Also the assets they manage will no longer be able to be used to assist the corporate finance departments in their take-overs and mergers.

Economic Luddites

the trouble is that the NYSE crashes have been occuring for decades prior to the Great Crash of 1929.

The cause of where we are now is the Dot Comm Boom and Bust of 2000. The Stock Exchange crash of 1929 did not cause the Great Depression, it was the action taken in 1929 which caused the Great Depression. Other crashes happen it is what you do which is the test. The 2000 crash, they pumped in money into the economies. Only now the money is nearly all gone. The whole edifice is collapasing, sometimes it is actually better to do nothing, let it go, you lose more by trying to preserve something which is not worth preserving. Think of the politicians as economic luddites, they really have not got a clue.

Think of a friend in quicksand. He slowly sinking and his friends think they can save him. Only trouble is the quicksand wins, he drowns, and those who tried to save him go down as well, they would have been better letting him go, then they can put up warning signs about the danger. Because they sacrificed their lives others died.

This is a quicksand economy, put up the warning signs.

Time to Go

exactly how long are you meant to be on this course for. Come on if you are going to blog then at least you could do it properly.

Today there is the question of the BBC and broadcasts to raise money for humanitarian aid.

There is the question over Afghanistan.

There is at last some of the press realising that this is not a recession, it is a slump, which will lead to another depression.

There is the devaluation of the pound which is now leading to price increases in petrol, and imported goods.

There is costs of the wars, while we suffer economically.

There is the blood money in Ireland, GBP12,000 if we can believe what we are being spun. Which Gordon will delay a decision on, spring election, government of national unity.

What people do not understand is that with regard to the previous para that we are paying millions to people in Iraq and Afghanistan in blood money because we have killed a memeber of their family.

What is this to do with you Nick, it is all politics. There is no leadership, there must be an election, so that we can all be put out of our misery.

Oh yes, great that Gordon had a quick chat with Obama, he might have said about sacking Washington, do you apologise for that, oh and as for Kenya and 'Mau Mau', would you like to check your records on the treatment of my father.

Gordon is not legitimate, he has no mandate, and he ignores the manifesto to which he signed up. Tony was going to serve a full term. I demand an election, for the sake of democracy, for the sake of the people of Britain, this parliament is finished.

Karzai and Democracy

now this one I think is going to be quite difficult for the democratically elected Prime Minister of Britain, who is a Scottish MP but runs the kingdom from a palace in England.

He has supported the Americans in Afghanistan, with our troops, a large number of who have died. Now we are told that we are supporting a democratically elected government and that is why we are they. Well not we, but the soldiers if you get me.

Now what is this problem which you see before you oh great Mr Griffin. Well it is just that within a few days or maybe weeks Obama will authorise the overthrow of President Karzai, of Afghanistan. we know that the government of Karzai is corrupt and not popular in his own country, so he will be got rid.

Now, I want to know when it happens what Mr Brown is going to do or say about democracy in Afghanitan, and his own legitimacy!

Time to go Gordon, what will you tell us when you have to tell the country that our boys have died for? Nothing, nothing at all.

Government of national unity

it is all to easy to say that the conservatives 'agreed' to the war.

Do you know what is most important from my perspective. It is that it was the soldiers who served in Iraq who were lied to. The soldiers who died, have been injured and who killed innocent women and children and failed to protect the local population once the conflict ended.

The war was illegal, Blair , Brown and Bush must be charged with entering into a war of aggression, of allowing torture, of not protecting the local population after their invasion, of committing crimes and misdemeanours, but do you know which is the worst crime? of lying to justify their actions. Once a liar always a liar.

Finally, it is good to see that a substantial number of other commentators are coming around to the implementation of a government of national unity. I mean Lord Mandelson, who is helping to save the economy has not been elected, yet he is doing a brilliant job, as part of the labour government of national unity.

Do something

if labour continue with this rhetoric about the conservatives being the do nothing party then this will come back to haunt them.

It is sometimes better to actually do nothing. It would have been better to do nothing over Iraq, where doing something has only made the situation worse.

The same with Afghanistan, what is the point, what is the purpose, other than to kill people away from our shores.

It would have been better not to have nationalised Northern Rock, it would have been better to let it go because people saw how weak the government was, that they would bail them out, so as to get votes.

I am sure that other contributors could make a massive historic list of times when it would have been better to 'to nothing' rather than do 'something' which only exacerbates the situation.

Mau mau

I thought it very interesting on the Radio 4 one o'clock news when reference was made to the 'Special Relationship' with regard to the Obama comment about the enemy at the gate when the snows turned red with the blood of the American Freedom Fighters and the City was destroyed by 'the enemy' namely the English.

Also, and more interestingly for me, the first time I became aware of the difference in the media between terrorists and freedom fighters was over the terrible events in Kenya, the birthplace of Obamas father, when there were the troubles with 'Mau Mau'.

What do others think about what Obama might have been told about the terrible English. Probably the same as Palestinians are being told about the terrible Israelis. Are we the real enemies of America.TAG.

Accountants

I wonder if you could possibly help me because I always thought that banks had their books audited every year. You know those highly paid accountants who walk through the doors collecting astronomical fees for signing letters that the figures represent true and fair value.

So, what have they been doing during this great global collapse? Can we have an investigation into this whole sorry fiasco.

What I must say is that some people have this naive thought that the banks are being nationalised, well can we take it then that when I walk through the door of my local nationalised bank that the person on the other side of the counter is a civil servant, and that they have signed the official secrets act. Just a thought!

What about the auditors

I thought that when the banks were audited the auditors had to sign off the accounts as being true and fair

Now when are the acountants, audotors and consultants going to be brought into the frame, they must also share their responsibilty for their contribution to this sorry state of affairs.TAG

Let it go (again)

people, sorry Gordon Brown, keep talking about mortgages, and that help will be given to people if they get into trouble. Well what about those people who could never get a mortgage, those people who have to rent.

When will it be pointed out that if people make money at their business then it is profit, if you make a profit then you pay taxes on that profit. If you employ people then taxes are deducted from those people which are then paid to the Inland Revenue.

It is not my problem if people who have made profits have not kept enough back to meet their liabilities, if they have not paid over taxes deducted from employees then that is fraud. The banks must not be part of a fraud, however, the government knows that the money has gone, squandered if you like.

It is not the bankers who are at fault, it is the people, us who are to blame, when will people take responsibilty for their actions, they have choices, they have free will, if you can't stand the heat in the kitchen then get out.TAG.

Debtors

I listened to part of the Gordon Brown Alistair Darling speaches this morning. If GB goes on more about the 'scourge of unemployment' then he has being in cloud cuckoo land for years.

The levels of unemployment in this country are massive, the so called disabled, the uneducated masses who could never do a job, the early retirees who don't sign on because there is nothing in it for them, the pensioners who get by on a pittance...

In the meantime we must not forget that the banks who have got us into this trouble used to be building societies, also the main banks in touble have Scottish links, Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of Scotlan, I mean talk about pork barrel politics.

It is the former building societies which thought they could be banks that have got us into this trouble. Why should we bail out the greedy who have buy-to-let mortgages, and people who would not moan if they profit out of their property investments.

There must be a general election, confidence in this country will plummet further as it is realised that we are so heading for the knackers yard This is a Titanic economy, they said it would never sink, well we have hit the berg again, and it is about time to take to the lifeboats, only it is not women and children first it is politicians and bankers who are the rats leaving a sinking ship.

What I thought interesting was the John Humphries interview this morning with an executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, who used the words 'fess up' which I thought was some sort of low life term to admit to some crime or misdemanour. When will the government order an inquiry into the banking crisis, and the war in Iraq.

Finally, Brown refers to the credit crunch because the banks won't lend. May I suggest that he also looks at it the other way around, this is a debit crunch because why should I borrow, that is get into debt, neither a lender nor a borrower be, never has this been more true. I'm not lending my money to anybody so that they can make money on my money and not give me a fair return.TAG.
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Just let go

I am fascinated by your last comment, what training exactly is it that what my taxes are paying for!

As for the actual thread of your blog I seriously cannot believe that people still refer to the banks as being nationalised, which part of the bank do you actually nationalise, the UK bit or the Global bit.

There is trouble brewing, we are being bankrupted by our foreign occupations and wars. The world will actually move to the right, I have said it before Nick, we have to just let go, let asset values find a new level, if you fail so be it because if you don't the money will just disappear, just as it did in 1928/29. I have said before as well that there are now two days which have changed the world, 9/11 Twin Towers, 9/15 Lehman Brothers.TAG.

War in Iraq (continued)

I hope that you are going to Washington to see the inaugaration of President Obama. I wonder if you will find the time to Lord and Lady Kinnock, such a wonderful couple.

I notice that President Sarkozy will also be going, with his very attractive wife, and wonder who will be the representative from Britain. Gordon will be trying to save a bit of the world by going to Egypt, I can only hope that he is back to the UK in time for the waste of space known as Prime Ministers Questions.

Back to the Kinnocks, I notice from the Andrew Marr show that Glynis will be buying a new wardroab for the 'best tickets in town' and wonder if she will claim expenses.

Which reminds me we could save an awful lot of money if we got rid of all the ceremonial robes in the Lords, and also got the soldiers to wear fatigues during all their ceremonies rather than all this gold braid.

Finally, I do love the story in the Mail on Sunday about General Sir Mike Jackson and his teeth job and the facelift. I wonder if he would like to comment about the injuries to the soldiers he ordered into Iraq, for he was the commanding officer and therefore, I think, as responsible as the politicians for this disaster. Mind you like the generals of the Great War he personally has done very well from the war.

Hitch your skirt

did not this woman actually work for an Investment Bank before she hitched her skirt to Gordon Brown.

What amazes me is that the government keeps saying how they have nationalised the banks and yet never have they said that the bankers must sign the official secrets act nor that they are now civil servants. What sort of nationalisation is this nonsense.

How much more taxpayers money must be put at risk until some sanity is brought to the situation. He who pays the piper calls the tune. About October there will be another crisis, the money will all have gone, then we can really expect to see the real Great Depression II.

It is just going to be so sad where everybody seems to have put all their faith in Obama, and he will not be able to deliver, he is going to be the fall guy for all this.TAG

War Crimes (Again)

surely in the real world you could say something about the situation in Gaza, or Afghanistan, or Iraq.

For example, we now have the UN looking into possible war crimes being committed by Israeli soldiers. Now, I will hear nothing about war crimes by Israel for as long as Bush, Blair and Brown are still walking as free men. Bush and Blair for obvious reasons but Brown because he paid for the war, a war and occupation we can't afford in Iraq. For example, if we have doone the job so well then why do the Americans have to take over our base in Basra?

Afghanistan, well no doubt we will hear the PM read out the latest list of the dead from Afghanistan and say the usual stuff about protecting us, being on the front line against the Taliban etc...in the menatime I hope that he does mention the inquiry into those deaths, because surely he can't say anything anymore, Milliband's comments, about the war on terror, especially if they were killed by 'friendly fire'.

As for Iraq, I could not but fail to notice that it was the wonderful Hoon who announced the third Heathrow runway, the same Geoff Hoon who was Minister of Defence (War) during most of the occupation of Iraq. As I have thought for some time there are people who have a lot to answer for.

Finally, I have not forgotten about Mr de Menezes who was shot on a tube train by 'police' who fired multiple dum-dum bullets into his head, especially when dum-dum bullets are illegal under international law.TAG.

Shorting the Country

meanwhile, in the real world two soldiers are killed in Afghanistan, and we were told by the MoD that they died as a result of bombs, IEDs, and that they were very brave etc... No doubt when the PM reads out their names on Wednesday he will point out that there is an investigation into their deaths as it would seem possible that they died as a result of 'friendly fire'.

It is not only about the economy and people in government not being elected. It is about the war on terror, still, the people die, the women but worst of all the innocent children. Meanwhile I will probably have my own breaking news with regard to asbestos in the House of Commons. Watch this space.

By the way with the sharp movements in the share prices of the banking sector surely even this stupid government must see that there needs to be a full end to the practice of short selling.TAG.

End of parliament

I think that yesterday we actually witnessed the last rites of this most discredited parliament in history. I do not exagerate because we should know better. Past parliaments had the excuse of deference and obedience this one is shameful.

Yesterday John McDonnell was expelled because he moved the Mace. We are now approaching the 40th anniversary, 16th January, of the suicide of Jan Palach, who burnt himself to death in Prague because of the Soviet/Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

The link is that in 1969 the Czech authorities attempted to keep the suicide of Jan under wraps, not to let it be known why this man set himself alight and subsequently died of his injuries. They tried to bury bad news. The news was spread by word of mouth, the people could not be silenced.

The news that Hoon released to parliament yesterday about the new runway at Heathrow is just typical of the man. He is an afront to the democratic process, of course there must be a vote in the House of Commons. Just as we were lied to over the War in Iraq and the reasons for the attack this is comparable. None of these shamed politicians will be around when the damage to the environment will become apparent. They talk about 2050, I mean I will be a hundred by then, what are they going to do, stand up and say I am so sorry I got it wrong. But hey don't worry somebody will work out how we destroyed the planet.

Link with your blog on Digby Jones. I wish that he, and anybody like him told the truth whilst they could actually do something about it. A bit like General Sir Mike Jackson who now makes money out of the disaster in Iraq. Who was the Minister of Defence (War) when the war was at its worst, why Geoff Hoon. Who paid for the war, the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown, unelected as leader of the labour party who took over the premiership as a result of a coup.TAG.

Ex-teachers in education

actually there is going to be a serious problem when the ex-bankers start becoming teachers.

The problem I see is that the tolerance levels of bankers is actually not very good. I don't know how any serious banker will cope. When I retired from banking I assisted in health and education, one as a memeber of my local CHC and another as a school governor.

As a school governor with a financial back-ground I naturally became involved in the finances of the school. The problem was that it was part of a local reorganisation and was more or less told to follow the PFI route to fund its rebuild. This I seriously could not agree with, and accordingly as the chair was in favour and more or less did a back me or sack me, I was left with no alternative than to resign.

As for the CHC (Community Health Council), well that was abolished by a certain government, so I joined my local PCT as a member for their Clinical Governance, as a lay member. Well that was more than interesting because what seems like a lifetime after I left it, having done two years, I am still not seeing the changes which were obvious.

Finally, may I say that I would not always agree with Digby-Jones but his contribution to a select committee should be read and acted upon, with some urgency.

It really is not a good idea to get ex-bankers involved in teaching, they will go mental.

Jobs

some people are complaining that the BBC is only carryig the bad news, loss of jobs at JCB, some banks etc... and yet no praise for some of the major supermarkets who seriously want to expand their staff.

Surely, just like the miners when they were losing their jobs in droves the government could force all the former bankers and engineers to work for the supermarkets. I mean they are so well qualified, rather than stack their money they could stack our shelves.

Furthermore, all the unemployed could go and work for some of the suppliers to Primark who seem to employ people but at wage rates below the minimum wage and also pay them cash. I know this because earlier on in the week the BBC covered the story, but now it has gone quiet. Why no government investigation, what do all these officials we pay actually do.

Afghanistan

a question not directly answered by Gordon Brown concerned Israel and the International Criminal Court.

Surely he would never agree to sending Israel to the courts because otherwise hem Bush and Blair would soon be stood in the dock over Iraq.

Also I do hate it when he refers to our soldiers in Afghanistan being in the front line protecting this country from the Taliban. Surely this lie should be exposed, whenever have we been threatened by the taliban in this country.TAG.

Anybody elected

I thought that Andrew Neil made a very telling contribution before you came onto the set for PMQs.

Can anybody tell me who is actually directly accountable to the electorate over this whole financial disaster. Gordon is not an elected PM, Lord Mandelson is not elected, Lord Myners is not elected, baroness ? is not elected, neither is the new Lord Davies. Is anybody in this government responsible for the economy elected. I deliberately ignore Darling because he is just a puppet. TAG.

Customs and Excise

at PMQs Brown announced that almost 25,000 companies had been helped by allowing them to delay paying the taxes due. How much has this cost the taxpayer because somebody has to pay. How will the government ensure that we get this.

What worries me is that eventually these taxes must be paid. I hope that the banks are not going to have to pick-up the bill for these people evading their obligations. Taxes are only due on profits, or on taxes deducted from employees, I hope that a serious problem is not going to result in contributions deducted at source not being paid over.TAG.

VAT savings

the PM refers to savings of about GBP250 because of the implementation of his temporary VAT reduction.

Now then I am a simple soul and would like to point out the following.

To save GBP250 on VAT you need to spend GBP10,000 per annum on vatable goods. Now I don't know about many people but I do not have GBP10,000 of money to spend on vatable goods after all my expenditure on non vatable goods.

Would Gordon like to give me enough money to spend so that I can 'save' GBP250, even though his maths were wrong at PMQs I will stick at GBP250.

It must be WAR

I am seriously worried. You will probably know from history about the Moroccan crises which happened prior to WWI, countries felt that they had been insulted, and that they would not let it happen again, so prepared for war. Also we had the Balkan wars which were local affairs, but certain nations were not going to be insulted again or like others had been. The media got the blood up.

Today the Daily mail is running the report of the two Iranian men who have been stoned to death, terrible things being done in the name of religion. Iran possibly getting the nuclear bomb, what would they do with it if they still stone people to death. Iran is up to its neck in it with Hamas.

You can see where I am going with this one, Russia will soon be in turmoil, the right is on the march, there is only one solution, America must go to war against Iran to protect Israel, Russia will do anything to divert attention from its own internal problems, China will continue its expansion into Africa, and good old Brown will be saving the world. You could not make it up, trouble is I don't think I have.

It must be war, and soon, the politicians can be so stupid, it is just like WWI all over again. TAG.

BBC and Zanulabour

thought it interesting that you waited until after the Lord Mandelson interview this morning before breaking the news covered in one of the heavyweight daily newspapers about the possible appointment of 'Lord' Davies as the new 'banking minister'.

As for the comment about waiting for a market to close in the Far East was a classic. You would have thought that you could have spoken about what was in the papers to the Editor of the programme and get a question asked indicates to me just exactly how much control Zanulabour now has over the BBC.

I wonder what that Peston fellow would have said? This is such good fun.TAG.

Primark

last night I watched the BBC Ten o'clock news. What interested me most of all was the part they did on Primark and the use of labour at less than the minimum wage.

If this labour government is meant to be anything about the workers than the relevant minister must announce an immediate investigation into the allegations made by the BBC.

The use of cheap labour is not justified. Primark, and their suppliers must be investigated, and the silence on this issue is deafening. Could it be because we are talking about foreign workers in the UK being paid in cash and therefore not paying their taxes. I find it totally unaccpetable that goods are sold by a major High Street retailer at such low cost simply because they are not paying the statutory minimum wage and that taxes are being avoided.

An investigation now, and a statement from a government minister. Who could that minister be, the minister for employment, an unelected Lord Peter Mandelson?

Etienne de la Boetie

May I quote an extract from a pamphlet put together in either 1552 or 1553 by Etienne de la Boetie. The pamphlet was called The Politics of Obedience, The discourse of voluntary servitude and was not about the Machiavellian Prince but the overthrow of the Prince and to secure the liberty of the individual. The question is 'why in the world do people consent to their own enslavement' and here is a quote which I think encapsulates where some of us are today, albeit four and a half centuries later:-

Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy
upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can
he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow
them from you? The feet that trample down your cities,
where does he get them if they are not your own? How
does he have any power over you except through you?
How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation
from you?

Exactly how much have we learnt since the middle of the 16th century. Not a lot if we are to count the number of CCTV cameras.

Bank Bail Out

I like the bank bail out. I think that it is really good government policy.

For example giving money to LloydsTSB because apparently they have to pay a fine to the US government for breaking sanctions. Ah, yes the bank bail out.

It does seem to have gone very quiet on the fact that much of the bail out has also gone to the Scottish run banks, Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of Scotland. Nothing at all to do of course with employment in Scotland.

It will be interesting to see what Mandelson does with regard to Jaguar/Land Rover, those companies owned by very rich entrepeneurs. This is not a bail out, this a loan, a very good loan, to help through a difficult period, and the loan will due to be repaid after we, Zanulabour, have lost the next election.

Guantalamo Bay

I wonder when we can expect a serious quote from the government on the question of what to do with the Guantalamo Bay detainees. Are we going to take some to help out Obama. On the basis that we have returned two Iraqis to the Iraqi government to face War Crimes trials, then there is absolutely no basis for us to accept anybody from Guantalamo Bay. If they are held here because they may face the death penalty where they come from then surely we have already agreed that there is still no reason why we should not allow them to be executed. Sadam Huuein was executed, as have many other Iraqis, so there is no reason for us to accept anybody.

Build a Better Tomorrow Today

I went into the Downing Street site this morning to catch the flavour of the heavily leaked PMs New Year message. I show below just a couple of extracts because I have never read such a load of tosh in my life, it is pure rhetoric :-

We must not just plan for tomorrow. Our task over the next twelve months is to build tomorrow today.

So that Britain creates the thousands of new tech jobs for the digital age now ahead of us, we must build the digital tomorrow, today

So that Britain creates the thousands of green jobs vital for the environment and our economy, we must build that green future of tomorrow, today.

So that we have the best railways, roads and communications for the future, we must build the infrastructure of tomorrow, today.

So we have the right skills for the future we must not let people’s lives waste away in unemployment without trying to help. So that they have the skills our country needs we must build that tomorrow, today.

Now, does everybody get the message, action this day, today, now, immediately. So, why exactly is there this massive public holiday, what exactly are we celebrating. Waht is Gordon Brown doing TODAY, not tomorrow.

I have never felt so depressed, there is no hope with the present incumbant, he has so lost the plot.

I mean look at the first extract and think about what he is actually saying 'our task over the next twelve months is to build tomorrow today'. Seriously fellow Britons, what on earth is the man trying to say, please please I beseech you Gordon, please just go, leave us to our fate.