Have pity on Gordon- if you can

June 21st, 2009 by admin | Filed under Daily News.

government Anyone who makes a practice of observing Prime Minister Gordon Brown cannot have failed to notice that the “hand dog” look that has become his trademark seems to have grown even more profound in recent weeks. The expenses scandal which although its smear reach every corner of the house seemed to affect him more than anyone else. This is understandable when you consider that he the leader of the house.

While this scandal refuses to go away, there is a new one arising that can be pinned directly on to Gordon and his crew, and has already led to cries of “dishonesty” from the opposition Conservative party.

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has being issuing some pretty strong accusations against the prime minister stating that he “basically misled the House of Commons”.
The opening for attack came when Brown obviously pressurised and showing it, during a heated prime minister’s questions session proclaimed that “UK capital expenditure will grow until the year of the Olympics”. Osborne, a slick political operator, immediately picked up on the fact that Gordon’s announcement was in direct contradiction to the official Treasury’s projections published in this year’s Budget red book.

What Brown’s obvious slip of the tongue and its later less than objective interpretation from George Osborne has led the Conservative’s to open the book on the whole affair and have succeeded in unearthing a few more jewels, to be used to weaken Brown and the Labour party in the run up to a now eagerly anticipated general election. An election that is more or less guaranteed to see an end to the Brown government, with the Prime Minister only has succeeded in serving for two years. That may be a bitter pill for the man to swallow, especially as Tony Blair kept him waiting in the wings for a whole decade.