The current indecent campaign to oust Gordon Brown is led by pro Tory hack journalists who manipulate the news for their own particular agenda. What really matters is the current government economic policy which needs changing not the prime minister. We cannot imagine that Mr. Brown will do this but for the sake of the country and the Labour Party he would be wise to do so. We need an economic policy encouraging economic growth, low interest rates and withdrawal of a public sector pay freeze. To continue on the present course will result in disaster for Labour at the next general election.

The Tory mass media is calling for Gordon Brown to resign and is speculating on the alleged plots against him. Gordon Brown is a good prime minister; what should really happen is a change of economic policy we need to stop the stupid Bank of England basic interest rate increases and reduce them drastically to stimulate economic growth, we need to end the short sighted public sector wage freeze. It seems to us a change in direction for economic policy is the only way to save the Labour Party, Mr. Brown would be wise to realize such a change is urgent and necessary.

We feel that what is wrong at the moment is government economic policy: we believe the policy of keeping the Bank of England basic interest rate high is seriously wrong. The basic interest rate must be reduced substantially in order to encourage growth. Inflation is not a serious issue, the current inflation is caused by external factors not domestic.

Many people on mortgages may lose their homes we cannot allow this to continue; it is no good lecturing the world to “make poverty history” when in our own country we encourage poverty and we fail to deal with it. We need to also cease imposing a wage freeze on the public sector, the low paid are often found working in the public sector and  we should act to improve their wages. We don’t really care who the leader of the Labour Party is, what really matters is our economic policy which is a complete and utter failure.

It is unbelievable that a rock solid Labour  held safe seat has fallen to the SNP. Something is seriously wrong in the Labour Party, this should not have happened. It is no good for Labour leaders to react in the old way, we are “listening” is not the response we should give, nobody believes Labour politicians listen, we engage in the same old, same old. Our economic policy is crazy, our incomes policy is nonsense, allowing the Bank of England to raise the basic interest rate or keep rates high is foolish. We are following an economic policy that is out of step with reality. Unless, the Labour leadership learns and changes course we will not be looking at a fourth term of government but disaster in the coming general election.

The silly season approaches and so our TV screens begin to be filled with the latest images from Ethiopia of the  starving, this time in Afar. Photo journalists and hacks now rush in obscene hast to film and interview these poor people for our TV screens. They did the same last year, the year before, 10 years before, 20 years ago and maybe 30 years ago. Of course this time next year we will be treated to this obscene annual heart wrenching display for our TV screens and ever after. Of course donations will poor in, as before, nothing changes, nothing will. What these hacks should do is go to Addis look for government ministers and officials and question them on their contribution to ending starvation and poverty in their country, then for once we all may learn something about problems relating to starvation and poverty in Africa.

E-on is to demolish an old coal fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent and build a brand new clean coal fired power station. This development is welcome and the government should go ahead and commit to removing all oil fired power stations from the national grid and replace them with clean coal fired power stations. The lunatic fringe coalition of so called environmental groups is opposing such developments and are rather ignorant of the advantage of clean coal fired power stations, the lunatic fringe would rather we remain reliant  on middle eastern oil which is clearly ridiculous.   Now is the opportunity for the government to commit to close all oil fired power stations as soon as possible. We have no shortage of coal, our country is rich in this resource and we would be foolish to not to exploit coal.

Mugabe has at last been humiliated in having to meet his opposition opponent, Tsvangirai at a hotel in Harare to sign an agreement to talk. We are not sure what this means. We would why  there were no preconditions such as an end to zanu pf terror and the release of all the MDC people in prison, police cells or those held at torture detention camps.  We fear however, this is a stunt engineered by Mbeki,  to ensure Mugabe retains his illegal seizure of power. We will wait and see what emerges over the next few weeks, we remain skeptical and cynical of any attempt to deal with Mugabe in talks.

It seems that Bloggers for Labour have deleted me from membership, so for whatever reason this is for as they haven’t had the courtesy to inform me I shall now delete the link for Bloggers for Labour from our site.

The ridiculous and crazy policy now being followed by the Bank of England is forcing us into a recession  along with a growth in unemployment and Brown and Darling appear to be in favour of such policies. Our main enemy now is not inflation, an inflation caused by speculation in the overseas  oil and commodity markets not by domestic causes. Our main enemy is a looming recession and the Bank of England needs to now reduce substantially the interest rate,  all financial institutions should in general now reduce rates. We are pleased to see that at least one member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, Professor David Blanchflower has voted consistently for nine months to cut the Bank of  England base rate, he has warned recession is more than likely to be advanced by the Bank’s policy whereas it is not too late now for the Bank to reduce interest rates substantially and ease us away from recession.

Watford Tories are in a spot of bother as their parliamentary candidate, Ian Oakley, has been arrested by Hertfordshire Police, since bailed, for alleged harassment of political opponents, in fact a hate campaign against the Lib Dems in Watford.  Mr Oakley is apparently a councillor for Northwood Ward in Hillingdon. It appears that Mr. Oakley is alleged to have engaged in actions such as late night nuisance ‘phone calls, poison pen letters and criminal damage in order to harass his Lib Dem opponents. we are no fans of Lib Dems this shows how desperate some Tory candidates can get in order to gain public office. We look forward to learning more about Mr. Oakley’s alleged naughty activities over the next few weeks.