Is Gordan Brown trying to keep Labour in by allowing the Gurkas

[trt]

to stay in the UK. The Government have said no the past year, but now they say yes. It seems to me they are trying to keep your votes to elect them again.

By the way, I am for the Gurkas to be allowed to live here.

[jake-the-peg]

Wonderful as they and Joanna Lumley are I don't think that the Gurkha issue will decide how most people vote at the general election do you?

I suspect it's more to do with losing the vote on the issue in the house of commons.

BTW is it just Gurkha's you like or shall we extend the rule generally to anybody who fought in the British Armed forces?

[Quinlad]

Damned if they do....

[rov1200]

It shows how easily it is to change government policy. An outgoing government has nothing to lose in acceding to any whim the newspapers or the public throw up. What's another �bn added to the state finances when we are already in a hole. While we are about it why not let all ex-commonwealth citizens, (not forgetting the families) who took part in our wars of the past 70 years, and who fought for us.

The government would have been more popular if they had stood up to the payments for the ex-bankers but maybe their own sleaze was too similar.

[DrFilth]

i hope none of them gurkas ride motorbikes jake will be very unhappy

jake-the-peg
Thurs 29/05/08
16:01 And here's one less piece of biker filth drink driving

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/74 22443.stm


If he'd crashed into a pub that would have been poetic justice don't you think?




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[VHG]

Gordon Brown's policies for the last 10 or so years have bankrupt this country.

As a country we are massively in debt and our children will be paying for his mis-management for decades to come.

Many of the UK businesses that have closed will never reopen here, they will reopen in eastern europe or the far east or india.

He is proving to be the worst PM EVER.

Allowing a few Gurkha's to stay is not going to make a jot of difference to how people vote.

If he started to do something about the million illegal immigrants then that may save him (but I doubt it).

[VHG]

And if you want an example of how bad Gordon Brown has been, look at the debacle of Tax Credits which he introduced.

Tax Credit fraud has run into the BILLIONS, somwhere between 7 and 15 BILLION Tax credit fraud (depending who you read).

More here

http://tinyurl.com/om5btt

An example here of the level of fraud

http://www.whitehallpages.net/modules.php?op=m odload&name=News&file=article&sid=189120

[jake-the-peg]

Gordon Brown's policies are keeping an awful lot of us still in work.

The Tories would have not bailed out the banks.

Failing banks would have foreclosed on loans to companies and on your mortgages!

Tory financial policy is to just let everybody fend for themselves.

So by all means hand the keys to number 11 to Ozzy the Ostrich.

But don't go looking for any help from them when your job goes and your mortgage forecloses.

All you'll get is a lecture on market forces!

[VHG]

>Gordon Brown's policies are keeping an awful lot of
>us still in work.

I believe the Russian communist party kept everyone in work, as being on the dole was not allowed.

Didnt do them a lot of good in the long run.

Gordon Brown has kept us all in work by creating hundreds of thousands of government jobs that cost us a lot of money but dont actually produce anything.

I have said it before, but he has single handedly bankrupt the country.

[youngmafbog]

Jake you really speak some blinkered cr*p sometimes.

Open your eyes man, just about everyone in the country hates Brown. Without doubt he has virtually bankrupted the country, and it is a matter of fact that Noo labour inherrited the best economy of an incoming Government ever.

Failed Social experiments cost dearly.

[buildersmate]

I'm not sure I can agree about Gordon, VHG.
For 10 years the man ran a tight ship as Chancellor, doing none of the things you suggest to foul up the finances. Oh, except that neither he nor anyone else at the FSA realised the way the bankers (whoops, nearly a misprint there) were running us to the brink.
Then Tony runs away with all of his credit still intact, whilst Gordon picks up the pieces. He was well and truly shafted.

[Lonnie]

I've noticed that Gordon Brown has developed a habit of coming out with an unpopular policy, and the, under pressure, reversing it, he's done that a few times.

The big question is, is the public in general gullible enough to think that he's done something good off his own back?.