Back to Old Labour
Tomorrow we will see a new Prime Minister entering number ten, but Gordon Brown is anything but new, it will be extremely hard for him to portray himself as a fresh start.
After 10 years of stealth taxes we know we are going to have to watch him like a hawk to ensure he does not continue to get away with his underhand tactics.
Over the last decade people we have learned all we need to know about Gordon Brown. He is the man responsible for the pension’s crisis, the spin, the bureaucracy, and the public sector cuts.
It does not end there though; Gordon’s deputy is extremely old hat. Harriet Harman pipped favourite Alan Johnson and four other MPs to win the ballot of party and union members, Labour MPs and MEPs.
Ms Harman is the come back kid of the Labour Party; she has had a political career that could easily be compared to a roller coaster, joining Mr Blair’s first cabinet only to be sacked shortly after.
Despite claiming to want to end the culture of spin, she was speaking with conviction when she dismissed newspaper critics saying “Some are saying I am too right-wing, others are saying I am too left-wing… they haven’t really got it sorted out. I just am what I am.” Clear cut there then.
She sponsored the cuts for lone parents and sent her son to a grammar school outside of the borough she represents. She no doubt wants to abolish grammar schools but only after her children have completed their elections.
I have no doubt in my mind that the Gordon Brown and his “new” cabinet will be seen for what they are in no time at all – no change!
