Gordons Moral Compass

Things that Gordon Brown should have done over the last ten years.



Give the electorate a referendum on the EU Lisbon Treaty.
Resign
Set up a paramilitary police force to regain control of the streets.
Increase police pay but reduce pensions & sick pay.
Increase public service pay but reduce pensions & sick pay.
Levy a profits tax on the financial sector to pay for Northern Rock and improvements to the FSA
Levy a profits tax on BT to pay for upgrading the local loop to optical cable by other contractors.
Freeze Council Tax
Give over 60's 50% off council tax
Give over 70's 75% off council tax.
Give over 80's 100% off council tax
Reinstate the cost of living link to the old age pension
Set the old age pension at 30% average income.
Cut the BBC licence by 10% per year until it is privatised.
Sell the BBC property manifesto and put the proceeds into the old age pension fund
Sell the Post Office and put the proceeds into the government pension fund
Levy a profits tax on the Banks and put the proceeds into the government pension fund.
Hand over control of the government pension fund to the Bank of England.
Abolish the Human Rights Act
Update the Divorce laws.
Remove all income tax under £10,000
Remove all benefits over £5,000
Cut service provider profits and reduce gas electric,oil, phone, bills.
Remove tax from over 60's savings accounts
Give schools financial independence from the education authorities.
Give hospitals financial independence from central government.
Form an independent complaints authority to regulate MP's







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Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#1)

Oh yippee, yet another Tory invading the site. Don't you lot have homes to go to?

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#2)

Dear Aridimus


Or should I say conservative head office adviser, and yes i will have an idea who you are!!

Wiseman

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#3)

Couldn't tell if this one was tory or BNP?  Right wing idiot anyway.

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#12)

The BNP are quite left wing, actually. They support nationalisation and hate privitisation. They do not believe in things like the free market and want a government with a large control over national production. These are left wing attributes, not right wing. They are loathsome racists, but that does not make one of the right. I have met as many racist Labour and Lib Dems as I have Tories. Racism is not a left/right divide it is something that pervades through all of society.

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#13)

I cannot agree with that at all. I think a lot of Tories come out with this nonsense to try and clear their consciences.

Nobody votes for the BNP because of their economic policies - they vote for them because of their hatred of immigration, hatred of Europe and hatred of anyone who isn't white and heterosexual. These are all definite hallmarks of the (far) right-wing.

I've never met a Labour or LibDem who was racist or homophobic (and I've certainly met a lot of them in my time) - they wouldn't be in those two parties if they were racist or homophobic since both parties are friendly to immigrants, to 'multiculturalism', to gay rights and to Europe.

Where as the Tories are more opposed to immigration, gay rights and Europe - so are a natural home for 'subtle' racists or homophobes. I've certainly met many Tories who are both racist and homophobic (although I would say that most Tories aren't).

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#14)

There is nothing remotely left wing about the BNP.  They occasionally use vaguely left-sounding rhetoric in areas where they're trying to shovel up disenchanted Labour voters, but actually their economic policies are straight-forward, old-fashioned corporatist-capitalist policies: classic fascism.  They are simply a fascist party, and therefore a party of the right (though not the neo-liberal right, unlike some - but not all - Tories).

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#15)

I think sometime we obfuscate the meaning of what is and isn't 'racist' (a word I've made my views very clear about)

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#4)

I love that point 2 is 'resign,' and yet the guy lists about 17 things after that for Brown to do.  Awesome.

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#5)

Is Aridimus really saying we should "support all pensioners except retired public sector workers who should be thoroughly buggered"?

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#6)

Ahh..But he an OLD tory!

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#7)

Sorry guys, not a Tory but a Tony Blair supporter !!
I'm a building site electrician working in liquid mud at the moment.
I suppose your all cosy and rapped up in your offices.
Anyway politics is supposed to be for the country, England, and not for the party, when your in power.

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#8)

I find it difficult to see how you could be a Blair supporter when your views seem to be so vastly different from his.

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#9)

So do you not feel Tony Blair should have done any of these things over the last ten years?

Or, when you describe yourself as 'a Tony Blair supporter' is that actually a lie? 

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#11)

He did resign.  That's one.

Re: Gordons Moral Compass (#10)

Pray tell whats the difference and please do not say the Min wage