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Defiant PM insists Labour can win at polls



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Published Date: 21 August 2008
A DEFIANT Gordon Brown yesterday declared Labour would go on to win the next general election, despite the political and economic turbulence of recent months.
The Prime Minister returned to the political fray in ebullient mood after his holidays, brushing off speculation about a possible leadership challenge by David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary. He said that ministers were working on a package of measures, to be unveiled in September, to help families struggling with rising fuel and mortgage bills.

As he headed off for the final days of the Olympics in Beijing, Mr Brown, said: "We are getting on with the job.

"Look, what the people of Britain are concerned about is what is happening to their gas and electricity bills, what is happening to the oil price and the petrol price.

"These are the issues that they want us to deal with."

However, in a poll published last night the Conservatives raced into a record 24-point opinion poll lead as Labour hit a 30-year-plus voter rating low.





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  • Last Updated: 20 August 2008 10:12 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

the_figures_are _fudged,

Galashiels 21/08/2008 00:03:22
Bean is in la-la land.

Out of a job by Xmas I say.
2

Peeablo,

UKSSR 21/08/2008 00:20:08
Aye, right!!!
3

The Spook in Leith,

21/08/2008 00:23:26
Taking of my SNP hat i can honestly say Labour will not win the next general election. I do believe Labour will close the gap on the Con,s within the next 18 months but will be out of office.

Nothing is going for them and the party is flat, i don't know but i just cant take Labour seriously anymore, on saying that i never have taken them seriously
4

The Spook in Leith,

21/08/2008 00:24:27
#1
Try September (2008) after the Glenrothes by-election..
5

the_figures_are _fudged,

Galashiels 21/08/2008 00:42:48
#4 same was said before Crewe and Nantwitch, and Glasgow East as well.

Bean in still Number 10 , like a floater that just will not flush, he keeps refusing to accept the inevitable.
6

The Spook in Leith,

21/08/2008 00:51:21
#5 Bean in still Number 10 , like a floater that just will not flush, he keeps refusing to accept the inevitable.

I know what you mean, man i hate it when you do a jobby and it wont flush away and its even worse when someone is waiting to go into the loo after you!!
7

a proud doonhamer,

Dumfries 21/08/2008 01:13:14
If Labour is at 24 across the entire UK, I can't wait to see the Scottish breakdown. The SNP might be close to 50.
8

Capricorn_one,

Edinburgh 21/08/2008 01:54:56
Britain is saddled with record levels of both personal and governmental debt just at the time the credit crunch hit.

As a government, as a people, as a nation, we could not possibly be in a worse position thanks to Brown encouraging a “Live today and pay tomorrow” lifestyle coupled with his “Govern today and your children can be taxed tomorrow” philosophy.

Gordon Brown seems to think that blind optimism is enough to win the next general election. He needs a reality check.
9

Robbie 2,

NZ 21/08/2008 02:25:30
“Gordon [the prophet] Brown yesterday declared Labour would go on to win the next general election.”
He also introduced Wendy Alexander (at the Scottish Conference) as “..the next First Minister of Scotland.”
10

henrymanchester,

UK 21/08/2008 04:39:32
If Brown and his red party wins it proves the voting is rigged.

Only by rigging the vote can this ugly, man hating, antiwhite, hetrophobic, business ass licking, loony left government hope to win.

I say we call in the UN observers NOW!
11

steve 1511,

aberdeen 21/08/2008 06:36:38
our great leader comrade broon has again spoken,more gibberish
12

connaughtboy,

stonehaven 21/08/2008 07:06:50
Bean go now. You are universally despised,
13

yockel,

21/08/2008 07:53:52
It's quite easy to feel sorry for this fool. OK he must be an arrogant self serving tvvat to have got where he is and a complete fool to repeat the rubbish his flunkies write for him or to pretend to subscribe to the lunacy espoused by his cabinet appointees but despise him? That has to be reserved for Maggie Thatcher and Tony Blair, for the moment anyway.
14

Dileas,

21/08/2008 08:13:05
Mr Brown, said: "We are getting on with the job.

"Look, what the people of Britain are concerned about is what is happening to their gas and electricity bills, what is happening to the oil price and the petrol price.

"These are the issues that they want us to deal with."

As he headed off for the final days of the Olympics in Beijing!

Is this just another example of Brown saying one thing and meaning quite another? Or is he so tied into sound bytes that he doesn't see any meaning in his words at all?
15

Boy Wonder,

21/08/2008 08:40:55
Can't ... stop ... laughing!!!! :D :D :D
16

Marian,

21/08/2008 08:45:10
Brown is still peddling the 'Labour can win the next election' line I see. I'm afraid that he is entirely incorrect. There is no possibility, none, that Labour can win. To win there must be tolerance. That is gone, subsumed in that contemptuous loathing that only the people of the UK, pushed beyond their normal equable fairness, can really manage. And we have been so pushed. New Labour will be annihilated at the next election. It will lose votes and 'safe' heartland seats to Plaid Cymru in Wales and to the SNP in Scotland. In England the Libdems and Tories will take over previously safe New Labour seats in major Northern urban areas; the Tories will take not only the suburbs, the market towns and the rural seats, but will rip England's cities free also. Brown will be very lucky if New Labour retain a hundred seats next time round. I'm sure there will remain a few New Labour tribalist donkeys, blinkered and unable to turn from their well-worn path - there are some who post here - but the majority of ex-New Labour voters will vote for someone else For anyone else. Just to get rid of New Labour.
17

bluehead,

edinburgh 21/08/2008 08:48:38
slobbering, slavering Broonie is at it again,the labour party are finished ,it could not be any more clearer,!if he hasn't the intelligence to see that,then he hasn't the intelligence to see anything,
perhaps he should try a job shining shoes or even selling hamburgers, even then I would have my doubts....
18

donald,

glasgow 21/08/2008 08:49:50
Is the earth flat?
19

MacGillicuddy,

21/08/2008 09:05:12
Quote:" Defiant PM insists Labour can win at polls "

In his dreams!


20

Auld Twa,

Edinburgh 21/08/2008 09:26:24
Does thia mean that we can expect the biggest giveaway of all time in his pre budget announcement ?
No doubt followed by a general election after which he would take it all ( and more ) back again.
21

weh,

21/08/2008 09:27:29
yockel,
21/08/2008 07:53:52
It's quite easy to feel sorry for this fool."

No it isn't Yokel!

In fact, its EXTREMELY difficult!

Now-have you remembered to take your pills this morning?
22

Paddi,

21/08/2008 09:27:38
A squadron of pigs were today seen flying in the skies over 10 Downing Street, London.
23

Linda,

Edinburgh 21/08/2008 09:31:32
Herald front page reports that UK Treasury gets £4 billion extra last month from North Sea Oil Corporation tax (amounting to half of all corporation tax)
24

Number 6,

Germany 21/08/2008 10:30:40
If such pronouncements do not indicate profound insanity, then what does? Talk about being in total denial. It is this insulting complacency that will see Labour practically wiped off the political map, on both sides of the border.

It can't come a moment too soon.
25

yockel,

21/08/2008 10:31:37
#21 Oh come on weh, where is your milk of human kindness, empathy with the down trodden, your desired to defend the weak and feeble and encourage the under achiever?
Surely even when putting down a rabid dog one feels a twinge of sympathy for the poor creature's misfortune.
26

oder,

Scotland 21/08/2008 10:46:35
22 Paddi,

your telling "porkies"
27

The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 21/08/2008 10:49:09
"These are the issues that they want us to deal with."

How very true, except there has been absolutely no movement from him or his government in dealing with these issues so far and he's had months to do it. Absolutely SFA except even more tax and then some more VED, and on and on. King Canute at it again.

Actions not words Brown. Unfortunately he just seems to have the words skill if it could be described as that. As much chance of winning the election as winning Glenrothes.
28

Mr A Roy,

23/08/2008 00:52:18
Tick Tock

 

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