7/BROWN RESIGNATION

BROWN RESIGNATION.//

Gordon Brown’s present uselessness as Labour Party leader is demonstrated by his inability to make it clear that the Tories come out of the expenses controversy very much worse than Labour.//

Gordon Brown’s failures as a Prime Minister are based on his absurd assertions that ever expanding markets are sustainable politically economically and environmentally. Ever expanding markets are politically economically and environmentally unsustainable. In particular the idea of ever increasing house prices has been nothing more than a pyramid selling scam.//

If ever increasing markets in general and ever increasing house prices in particular are so absurd, how has there been no political opposition to such absurdities? The answer to that is simple. The leader of the opposition is a professional and successful property speculator. In fact DAVID CAMERON is the 1477th richest person in Britain according to the Rich List of The Sunday Times, with wealth of £38 million based on property, a matter easily checkable online.//

THE RESPECTIVE POSITIONS IN PUBLIC LIFE OF BOTH DAVID CAMERON AND GORDON BROWN ARE UNTENABLE. TORIES AND LABOUR PARTY MEMBERS SHOULD CONSIDER THE FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE GENERAL ELECTION AS A SCRAMBLE TO DUMP THEIR RESPECTIVE LEADERS AND TO START TALKING SENSE AND REALISM TO THE ELECTORATE. THEY COULD START BY DISCUSSING PUBLICLY THREE YEAR FIXED TERMED, FIXED DATED PARLIAMENTS.//

Gordon Brown personifies the idea that if enough people agree about something, it must be right. That is politically economically and environmentally absurd. This is incidentally why the Greens are making no progress. They have not got the bottle to admit that environmental considerations take priority over considerations about economic sustainability or social justice.//

Alan Greenspan gave the idea of ever expanding markets an intellectual respectability and Gordon Brown put the theory into practice as practical politics. Greenspan and Brown have primary responsibility for the present worldwide economic difficulties. The whole thing could be said to have been a pyramidally sold idea. The idea kept expanding, getting more and more adherents, until natural realities made the absurdities of the whole thing clear.//

Gordon Brown is unfit for public office now that the political economic and environmental absurdities of his ideas have become clear.//

Further to that, Gordon Brown is temperamentally unsuited to public office because he considers public office as an honour. Gordon Brown is kept in office by people who feel compassion for the possible dishonour that might be felt by Brown following his dismissal. This honour or dishonour is all froth.//

GORDON BROWN HAS TRIED HIS BEST, AND HIS BEST HAS NOT BEEN GOOD ENOUGH.//

CAMERON HAS TO GO TOO, not because of some unpleasant persecution of the rich, but because of the circumstances of his purchase of his Oxfordshire second home. He paid £400,000 cash, leaving a £200,000 mortgage. And so converted efficiently the maximum possible parliamentary allowance for himself, into personal capital.//

The allowances system was planned to make sure that people from poor backgrounds could be MPs. The allowances system was not planned to provide investment opportunities for one of the richest men in Britain. Is it reasonable to expect tax payers to fund the purchase of a twenty room mansion for one of the richest men in Britain?//

Tom Smith, Thursday, 19th November 2009.//