So, Gordon Brown becomes "our" Prime Minister today. A PM with no mandate to govern England and a PM who is totally unaccountable to the electorate in England.Gordon believes that people in England are second class citizens, that they must be treated as cash cows and denied the representatation and funding given to his own people in Scotland:
GORDON BROWN: "I think a system where MPs from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were excluded from voting in the Commons would inevitably lead to the break-up of the Union so I will never support it." ( The Independent)
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But justice and equality for the electorate in England DEMANDS that only MPs accountable to the English electorate should vote on English issues. More from the Independent article...
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"How do you feel about the growing divisions between England and Scotland, such as in health treatments, higher education and long-term care for the elderly? Doesn't it make all this Britishness stuff rather absurd?"
BEN JAY, Bath
Goprdon Brown: "Of course devolution means that different choices can be made on issues that are reserved to the Scottish Parliament. But I believe the values that unite us as British people are stronger than any policy differences between the regions and nations of the country."
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"Regions and nations of the country"? Firstly, Britain is a nation, not a country - it is a union of countries. Secondly, the term "regions" reveals yet again Gordon Brown's long term determination to break up England into regions, and deny its existence as a country in its own right - a right he fully backed for his own country, Scotland. His answer also ignores the differences in funding via the Barnett Formula, and refuses to address the West Lothian Question.
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The "Union" is all about dictating to the electorate in England and denying its people rights, services and care available elsewhere. It's about taking money from the electorate in England to fund superior services elsewhere. It's about breaking England up into regions without consulting the electorate. It's about divide, rule and spin. It's about going blind in England for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland, subsidised by English taxpayers via the Barnett Formula. It's about scrimping and saving for a prescription in England whilst they are free for millionaires in Wales, again subsidised by English taxpayers via the Barnett Formula
And Gordon Brown thinks that the "Union", which is not in truth a union at all, is more important than YOU. He thinks that it is more important than YOU having the same rights, care and representation as people in his own home nation of Scotland.
It's a bad day for democracy...
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UPDATE...
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Maria writes:
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I note that Paul Linford is waxing lyrical about James Callaghan and shrieking "REJOICE! REJOICE!" about Brown taking over the PM-ship. Funny really. Paul was a little boy when Callaghan was in power and many of us who were old enough to vote, traditional Labour voters to boot, were rather disenchanted with him. Paul Linford also seems to think that democracy can go hang simply because he LIKES Gordon Brown. No mandate? Who cares because PAUL likes him!! What an ego! I always found Paul's "support" for an English Parliament suspect, now he's found out which way the land lies, his nose is so far up Brown's arse it's incredible. And it's only Day One.
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UPDATE 2
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Greg - Cumbria
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You can't expect Paul Linford to be concerned. The guy is comfortably off and really has no social conscience. It's all words - health apartheid matters not a jot to him, nor the Barnett Formula or West Lothian Question. The joke is that Paul professes to admire pre-Blair Labour and so celebrates Brown's coronation whilst completely mising the point that it is the lowest placed in England who will suffer under Brown and his renewed wave of "nations and regions".
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Darleen writes...
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Paul Linford states that this will be the first true Labour PM he has experienced as an adult and that he was 16 when not very Sunny Jim was voted out in 1979. Well, I too was 16 in 1979 and I was expected to be an adult - and go out to work. As did most people around my way. Mr Linford, you were a lad then, you're a lad now. A middle class plastic socialist, full of crap. The fact that my family struggles with prescription charges and finding money to keep my daughter at university thanks to the Scottish Raj's discrimination, matters not a f*** to you. You are a sham, a disgrace. You don't give a damn about the poor in this country. Backing Brown's take over of No. 10 is clear evidence of that.
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I say...
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I do not agree with Paul Linford on many issues, although I too am an old Labour supporter. I certainly abhor his support of Brown's undemocratic march into Downing Street. But I will be publishing no further criticisms in this thread unless somebody comes up with something fresh and relevant. Come on, guys - what is this, the anti-Paul Linford League or something?!!
