steve fowler

YEAH RIGHT! and how many times have we heard this over the last few years.

BBC NEWS | Politics | Brown promises 'serious changes'.

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More emphasis on combatting Terrorism...more freedoms down the drain then.

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steve fowler

Indeed more of the incoming police state.

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Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Winston Churchill.

When Labour won the 1997 General Election, Enoch Powell told his wife that the electorate had voted to break up the United Kingdom.

ranter

More taxes,more taxes and more taxes is all we have to look forward too under this govenment. Its just the same old speeches over and over again,nothing ever gets any better and indeed a lot of things get worse and worse.

brian pearson

I see the news is full of 'difficult worldwide financial conditions' ahead in 2008. So as our economy based on credit and spiralling house prices finally starts to grind to a halt it is a 'worldwide' problem and nothing to do with the last ten years of Browns' stewardship.

Yes, more tax and controls ahead.

Popeye

Why do they bother? Once the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified and the Irish bribed to vote Yes in their referendum Britain's future will no longer be in the hands of our politicos anyway.

jgrabham

I believe that is then the time to RIOT!!!

(Please not that neither I, nor this forum endorse violence in anyway, any strong feelings you may feel, which give you the urge to smash someones brain in, I must urge you to please exercise these in the two minutes hate, when Bin Laden next appears on your TV screen )

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arden forester

For a man who is job-sharing with an MSP, is leading a government with only 20% of the electorate's support, and who has botched his first six months, why should we believe him for 2008?

Northern Rock will still be with us. There will be a likely downturn in the economy. Will a smaller tax take allow greater spending?

Have we Mr. Bean before us or Mr. Micawber? A true and wonderous mystery, to be sure!!

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Phil Sheldon

Tessa Jowell, one of Tony Blair’s closest allies, called on the Prime Minister to be “authentic”, true to himself and to Labour’s values, saying that there was no quick fix to restore his Government’s battered standing after a series of setbacks.
Her comments came as Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary and Mr Brown’s most experienced minister, gave warning that David Cameron’s messages had been “resonating” with voters.

His admission that Mr Cameron is resonating with voters is in contrast with previous Labour attacks on the Conservative leader, whom the party has portrayed as a public relations man with style but no substance.
In his own new year message, Mr Brown appeared to hint that he may delay a general election until 2010, as he spoke of making the right decisions “not only this year but for the years ahead” and gave warning of a difficult year of global financial turbulence approaching.

Some analysts and fund managers think 2008 will be even worse as a sharp slowdown in the economy, continued trouble in the banking sector and a house-price slump cast gloom over the markets.
A survey of Footsie forecasts by The Sunday Times reveals experts are predicting almost no growth in 2008, with the index just 73 points higher at 6,550 in 12 months’ time
Ministers urge Gordon Brown to change leadership style as Tory poll lead slips - Times Online

Brown has until 2010 to turn the economy round. Expect Bank Rate cuts and 'favourable' budgets in 2008 and 2009. Darling will probably fund any lower taxes by drastically reducing welfare benefits and military spending-again.

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brian pearson

Then we can expect rising inflation ! And favourable budgets for who ?
Of course the inflation figures can be fiddled. But havent we all got all the 'made in China' goods we need. Can't do without food though.

I don't believe a few interest rate cuts can stop this fragile, credit driven economy from imploding in 2008.