Comments on: The four crises on Brown’s watch http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:46:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: debt management » The four crises on Brown http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-8039 debt management » The four crises on Brown Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:57:21 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-8039 [...] came across this post - The four crises on Brown [...] came across this post - The four crises on Brown

]]> By: www.bestfinancialadvisor.info » The four crises on Brown's watch http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7533 www.bestfinancialadvisor.info » The four crises on Brown's watch Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:25:53 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7533 [...] John Redwood wrote a fantastic post today on “The four crises on Brownâ's watch”Here’s ONLY a quick extractSome of us warned at the time - and subsequently - that taking responsibility for banking supervision and government debt management away from the Bank of England made it more likely they would mishandle money markets when conditions … [...] [...] John Redwood wrote a fantastic post today on “The four crises on Brownâ’s watch”Here’s ONLY a quick extractSome of us warned at the time - and subsequently - that taking responsibility for banking supervision and government debt management away from the Bank of England made it more likely they would mishandle money markets when conditions … [...]

]]> By: Diablo http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7428 Diablo Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:51:12 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7428 You have summarised perfectly why this Brown/Blair government of the last 10 years or so should be kicked out. They are incompetent. They have raised and spent hundreds of billions in taxes with few, if any, proportional benefits to the country. They have shown that they do not have the ability to manage complex government institutions with their top down approach of target setting and they have made serious misjudgements in all areas of national and international policies which will take years - maybe generations - to resolve. The sooner people can be made to see this, the sooner that the next Conservative government can start to put in place the policies that will reverse the process that Brown and his acolytes have started. More power to your elbow, Mr Redwood! You have summarised perfectly why this Brown/Blair government of the last 10 years or so should be kicked out. They are incompetent.

They have raised and spent hundreds of billions in taxes with few, if any, proportional benefits to the country. They have shown that they do not have the ability to manage complex government institutions with their top down approach of target setting and they have made serious misjudgements in all areas of national and international policies which will take years - maybe generations - to resolve.

The sooner people can be made to see this, the sooner that the next Conservative government can start to put in place the policies that will reverse the process that Brown and his acolytes have started.

More power to your elbow, Mr Redwood!

]]> By: Rob http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7416 Rob Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:03:40 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7416 If any one of the crises described above had happened under a Conservative Government, the media, led by the BBC, would have had a field day. "Experts" would have been wheeled out to give a five minute explanation, at the beginning of each news cast, of why the problem was due to goverment incompetence. Meanwhile a frenzy of anti-government feeling would be stirred up by commentators and government ministers would be interviewed on the Today program where they would be forced to listen to interviewers unable to disguise their sneering distain for every Conservative put before them. I know this, because it happened in 1997, and nothing has changed since. So, I'm afraid you're wrong Mr Redwood, Brown is in fact very lucky. He should now, by virtue of his record of failure over the last ten years, be a figure of contempt, not our Prime Minister. If any one of the crises described above had happened under a Conservative Government, the media, led by the BBC, would have had a field day. “Experts” would have been wheeled out to give a five minute explanation, at the beginning of each news cast, of why the problem was due to goverment incompetence. Meanwhile a frenzy of anti-government feeling would be stirred up by commentators and government ministers would be interviewed on the Today program where they would be forced to listen to interviewers unable to disguise their sneering distain for every Conservative put before them. I know this, because it happened in 1997, and nothing has changed since.

So, I’m afraid you’re wrong Mr Redwood, Brown is in fact very lucky. He should now, by virtue of his record of failure over the last ten years, be a figure of contempt, not our Prime Minister.

]]> By: NotaSheep http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7382 NotaSheep Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:39:14 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7382 and you don't think Gordon Brown bears any responsibility for the appearance of home grown terrorists in the UK? Reply: I am sure the Prime Minister does not want terrorists in the UK. The Opposition has for a long time been demanding better border controls to keep out people who do wish to harm the state, and urging more attention and budget money to intelligence gathering, as we think that is the best way to combat terrorism. There is, unfortunately, no sure way of securing a free society against all evil. and you don’t think Gordon Brown bears any responsibility for the appearance of home grown terrorists in the UK?

Reply: I am sure the Prime Minister does not want terrorists in the UK.

The Opposition has for a long time been demanding better border controls to keep out people who do wish to harm the state, and urging more attention and budget money to intelligence gathering, as we think that is the best way to combat terrorism. There is, unfortunately, no sure way of securing a free society against all evil.

]]> By: Cliff http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7365 Cliff Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:45:54 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7365 I suggest you are right in what you say. Although some may say he is unlucky, I would suggest his luck is more influenced by Contributory negligence on his part as a result of shortsighted policy decisions. One can say that local authorities are partially to blame for the flooding, but when a Stalinist style government starves the South of funding to subsidise their friends in t'north, perhaps they are not really to blame. Each new dictate from central government that must be implemented by local authorities with no additional funding is in essence a funding cut. The local authorities then have to decide where they will cut their services to fund the latest wizard wheeze from central government, in the case of the flooding, the gamble to stop the level of ditch and drain maintenance did not pay off, but at the end of the day they had no choice. The leak from the government's Purbright Lab is sickening, I would worry if I lived near Aldermarston just in case the government's lab there has a similar attitude to maintainance matters. The Northern Rock matter is way over my head so I won't comment on that, but informed commentators seem to suggest it is at least in part down to government policy, which I suppose must mean the chancellor which for the last ten years was the current PM. Reply: Yes - and remember many of the watercourses are the responsibility of the governemnt funded Environment Agency, who admit they did not keep enough of their ditches and culverts well maintained. I suggest you are right in what you say. Although some may say he is unlucky, I would suggest his luck is more influenced by Contributory negligence on his part as a result of shortsighted policy decisions. One can say that local authorities are partially to blame for the flooding, but when a Stalinist style government starves the South of funding to subsidise their friends in t’north, perhaps they are not really to blame. Each new dictate from central government that must be implemented by local authorities with no additional funding is in essence a funding cut. The local authorities then have to decide where they will cut their services to fund the latest wizard wheeze from central government, in the case of the flooding, the gamble to stop the level of ditch and drain maintenance did not pay off, but at the end of the day they had no choice.
The leak from the government’s Purbright Lab is sickening, I would worry if I lived near Aldermarston just in case the government’s lab there has a similar attitude to maintainance matters.
The Northern Rock matter is way over my head so I won’t comment on that, but informed commentators seem to suggest it is at least in part down to government policy, which I suppose must mean the chancellor which for the last ten years was the current PM.
Reply: Yes - and remember many of the watercourses are the responsibility of the governemnt funded Environment Agency, who admit they did not keep enough of their ditches and culverts well maintained.

]]> By: Letters From A Tory http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7337 Letters From A Tory Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:06:57 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/05/the-four-crises-on-browns-watch/#comment-7337 Interestingly enough, Gordon Brown used our ability to 'survive disasters' such as floods in his speech about why Britain is so great at the Labour conference. I don't think the message about his government's deceitful and incompetent handling of the issue got through to the public. http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com Interestingly enough, Gordon Brown used our ability to ’survive disasters’ such as floods in his speech about why Britain is so great at the Labour conference. I don’t think the message about his government’s deceitful and incompetent handling of the issue got through to the public.

http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com

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