THE Labour Party’s answer to everything: wheel out Brown.
Sir Keir Starmer is going to bring back Gordon Brown, the man of many vows and federalism. Just what happened to those?
Gordon Brown, failed chancellor under Tony Blair, and failed prime minister, the man who sold off the Gold reserves, for a third of their value, and in 1997 he raided the pension pot, costing OAPs £120 billion, and that is one of the reasons some of us have to work longer past the age of 65.
Liam Byrne, chief secetary to the Treasury when Gordon Brown was deposed, left a note for the new Conservative prime minister David Cameron: “I am afraid there is no money left.” This was the start of Tory Austerity, which continues to this day.
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You would think in this period of time while the Tories fight amongst themselves over a new leader, and who will have to choose a new cabinet, Sir Keir would be using this to his advantage.
Instead in Sir Keir’s desperation and obvious lack of talent in the Labour Party, he has to go back in time, 12 years, to a man that gave the Tories electoral power on a plate.
One must question Sir Keir’s judgment. Is Brown the right man to ask for anything, as the country heads to recession?
The worst part of it all is Sir Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar think they are going to win the next General Election.
Deluded or what?
Robert McCaw
Renfrew
DEAR Anas Sarwar,
For most of my voting life I have supported the Labour Party, and for about ten of those years I was a member of that party.
I refuse to label it “your party” because it bares no resemblance to the same during my membership and support.
It became estranged to me during Tony Blair’s leadership when he changed its direction away from the working class support and called it the New Labour Party. It was at its most pitiful when I arrived in Scotland twelve years ago under the leadership of Johann Lamont.
To this day, I have no idea what your policies are or who you represent. Yourself and your predecessors seem to prefer to continually oppose the governing party, in this case the SNP, rather than argue a compromise on any of its policies.
Soon after I made Scotland my home, I realised that the SNP was more socialist and democratic than that given out by Johann Lamont’s leadership, her successors and yourself. I then rescinded my membership of the UK Labour Party and joined the Scottish National Party.
By the way, it also occurred to me that Scotland was being governed by two parliaments, one led by the SNP and the other by a UK Conservative Party.
The opposition parties in Holyrood appeared to be little more than Scottish branches of their respected parent parties in Westminster.
And rightly described as such by Johann Lamont before she resigned.
The Scottish Labour Party, to put it simply, is a branch of the Westminster Labour Party, with no backbone, a continuing reduction of elected MSP’s and definately no respect for democracy in its leadership.
It is no wonder that the voting Scottish population, slowly but surely, is growing in popularity for their independence from the UK regardless of which party those same people voted for last time around.
Alan Magnus-Bennett
Fife
A TRIFLE miffed with Michael Fry’s piece on Dr. David Livingstone.
Although informative, he managed to complete the whole piece with a mention of BLANTYRE, MALAWI, but no mention of the fact that he was born and brought up in BLANTYRE ,SCOTLAND!
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The nearest he got was “in 1929 a Scottish national memorial was opened in LANARKSHIRE” He must surely be aware of Livingstone’s birthplace, so why was it omitted, and the v ague “Lanarkshire” substituted.
Another thing that gripes me is the (at the time) prevailing attitude that to ‘honour’ him, he had to be buried in London and not the town of his birth, unlike Thomas Carlyle who died in London in 1881, but was buried in his home town of Ecclefechan.
Barry Stewart
Blantyre
A CORRESPONDENT in the letters page (July 28) is calling for thousands of independence supporters to ‘travel UP to Perth’ (my emphasis) to turn the Tory leadership hustings of Tuesday 16th August into a ‘Scotindy rally’.
Did it not occur that many could make the journey DOWN to Perth from areas north of the Fair City? I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, that central-beltism is corrosive against the will towards voting for independence.
J D Moir
Aberdeen
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