Labour Action for Peace

First 100 days - The Prime Minister's Record so far - What do you think?

Gordon Brown was the strategic architect of the now tarnished 'New Labour' project, and supported Tony Blair into the disastrous Iraq debacle. By supporting US plans for a so called missile shield he has recently provoked the Russians into resuming 'cold war games' with the RAF at the edge of British air space. He has confirmed the replacement of the Trident missile system at a projected on-going cost of perhaps £50 -80 Billion over a quarter century; the money could meet the UN millennium goals of education, healthcare and clean water for the world's children. As Chancellor he allowed UK personal debt to soar to unprecedented heights built on a speculative property inflation bubble. He is provoking trade unionists into militancy by suggesting that the wages and conditions of workers who keep the economy going are the root cause of inflation, whilst giving free range to 'city' speculators and profiteers. He is head of a government which is effectively the owner of the Royal Mail, yet has allowed the breakdown of relations between trade union and management to deteriorate to the point where strike action seems the only way that employees can respond in order to protect their wages, pensions and indeed the excellence of the service to the public. He is going ahead with compulsory identity cards which will be no deterrent to would be terrorists, and is looking to control an already surveillance society with new legislation which almost removes the presumption of innocence from our judicial system. On the international front he has obstinately refused to attend the EU / African Summit in Lisbon because President Robert Mugabe is attending, when the issue should be relief to a continent troubled with famine, poverty, war, lack of health care and universal education. Best of all, he invited Baroness Lady Thatcher, Hammer of the Trade Unions, to Number 10 Downing Street. He is in danger of seriously over estimating the loyalty of grass roots party members and would be Labour voters.