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John Redwood MP for Wokingham

These are the most recent articles mentioning "gordon brown" The PM is annoyed with the media - he should try sorting out the problems Posted 04/19/08, 06:48 ... e story that many people are against the abolition of the 10p tax band. Why on earth in a free society should the media ignore such a story? It makes Gordon Brown, like his post Thatcher predecessors, appear to be the poodle of the headlines rather than in charge of the government. Let me explain ... What a shambles Posted 04/25/08, 06:35 How many Labour MPs thought it would come to this? Many of them wanted Gordon Brown with a passion, preferring his more socialist approach to Tony Blair™s Third way ambiguity. Many of them thought he was too decisive and powerful to be stopped. Even the minority of loyal Blairites who privately pre... Care for the elderly debate reveals the unfairness of devolution Posted 05/12/08, 06:24 I thought Gordon Brown was an intelligent man. I read that he has hired, at our huge expense, a number of intelligent advisers. How can they, between them, have come up with the subject of care for the elderly as the topic for the œfightback�? Anyone with half an ounce of common... John Redwood reviews “Political Hypocrisy” by David Runciman Posted 05/14/08, 15:27 ... n tries to draw these general views out of his sources and apply them to modern politics that the book is least satisfactory. It is difficult to see Gordon Brown as honest. He has continued many of the practices of the Blair regime in spinning stories in the press in response to the public mood as... Time to stop living beyond our means - and that means the government too Posted 05/19/08, 06:04 ... profligate, spending ever larger sums on quangos, spin doctors, regulations, banking support, railway support, welfare, bureaucrats and politicians. Gordon Brown has racked up huge debts for the taxpayer during the good times, over the œNICE� years, when a little more restraint would have seen good... Mr Miliband should shut up - Mr Brown won’t ask him to put up Posted 05/26/08, 06:23 David Miliband should put an end to speculation that he is going to replace Gordon Brown. He can do so easily if he wishes. Instead of saying stories about his running for the Leadership are works of œfiction�, he should categorically rule out seeking the Prime Ministership or allowing his name to ... Eleven years of government dithering over energy Posted 05/29/08, 08:19 Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling met the oil industry yesterday to see what they could do to boost production of oil. They reasoned that if they could help the industry pump more, the price will fall and alleviate some of the pressure. I have no objection to such discussions, but wonder why they h... Ease the squeeze - Business Post article Posted 07/09/08, 06:09 ... oducing too little oil. What we need is a government which not only says it shares our pain, but does something to ease it. If only Gordon Brown had said at the Summit: œToday we face the twin problems of energy and food shortage, driving the world prices of both higher. This is ... From John Lewis list to MFI list? Posted 07/16/08, 06:38 ... it Office judgement - will they need an MFI list or the equivalent? How different would that be from the current John Lewis items and prices? Gordon Brown needs to put much more discipline into public sector costs. We are awash with too many MPs, MSPs, Assembly members, Regional assembly mem... Labour will not “learn the lessons” of Glasgow east Posted 07/25/08, 06:40 ... seat, eleven weeks before he can say anything in Parliament about why he won and why the electors of Glasgow are so fed up with Labour. It also means Gordon Brown is spared analysis and hysteria about the result around the tea room tables in the Commons. His MPs are already well dispersed and some n... Time for PM to get a grip Posted 07/30/08, 06:19 ... a colossus in a party of minnows - so much so that none of the pygmies around him dared to offer their party a choice when he finally saw off Blair. Gordon Brown was in many ways the arch spinner of the Blair era, and the Brown era was ushered in with a welter of new spin. So confident was the new... Wokingham needs a Home Information Pack holiday says John Redwood Posted 08/11/08, 12:36 ... ing uncertainty continues over whether or not the Government will introduce a stamp duty suspension or deferment scheme, John Redwood today called on Gordon Brown to use government powers to suspend Home Information Packs (HIPs) to help boost the beleaguered housing market. Twelve months on from ... The Labour record is stuck on high taxation, backed by Mr Miliband Posted 08/19/08, 07:14 It comes as no surprise today to see a poll telling us that David Miliband would be no more successful against David Cameron than Gordon Brown. The problem is primarily economic. Mr Miliband has not put forward an alternative, is not a critic of the PM’s over his poor handling of the ... The Labour record is stuck on high taxation, backed by Mr Miliband Posted 08/19/08, 07:14 It comes as no surprise today to see a poll telling us that David Miliband would be no more successful against David Cameron than Gordon Brown. The problem is primarily economic. Mr Miliband has not put forward an alternative, is not a critic of the PM’s over his poor handling of the ... The petticoat plot Posted 09/13/08, 07:31 The men bottled the task of removing Gordon Brown, led from behind by David Miliband’s “friends”. Now we hear the women are going to have a go, with the unusual approach of asking Labour MPs to decline to nominate Gordon Brown, leaving the forms blank as they do not know who could... The late departure of Ruth Kelly tells us something about transport Posted 09/25/08, 06:32 ... ure of Ruth Kelly has been delayed, owing to the wrong kind of political rows on the line. According to some newspapers her departure is bad news for Gordon Brown, more evidence that the Labour government is falling to bits. For once I am prepared to believe what Ruth Kelly tells us - she is findin... The European Credit Crunch summit - no more grandstanding please Posted 10/04/08, 07:07 ... he meeting of European leaders usefully do? There are five main areas they could concentrate on. Interest rates. They could tell the ECB and Gordon Brown could tell the Bank of England to get their rates down to around the 2% level chosen by the US. Concerted action to lead markets to lower... War in Afghanistan - another worrying consensus? Posted 10/05/08, 07:24 ... who has not visited Afghanistan I wonder if this is a warning we should heed? This is a war supported by Barack Obama, John MacCain, George Bush and Gordon Brown. It is a war where Barack Obama and the Democrats, who have moved from supporting the war in Iraq to questioning it, want to see Western... That’s no independent Bank Posted 10/30/08, 07:57 First, Gordon Brown smashed the Bank of England™s ability to understand the money markets by removing their duty to regulate the day to day activities of the commercial banks, and by removing their task of raising the public debt. Second, he set up a so called independent Monetary Policy Co... Freedom Today Posted 11/04/08, 09:58 First, Gordon Brown smashed the Bank of England™s ability to understand the money markets by removing their duty to regulate the day to day activities of the commercial banks, and by removing their task of raising the public debt. Second, he set up a so called independent Monetary Policy Co... Citibank and Woolworths - signs of the times Posted 11/24/08, 07:49 Do you remember Gordon Brown on coming to power telling us he would take Parliament more seriously and make it the centre of our political life? Ministers would report first, and fully to Parliament. So this weekend the government was busily leaking all the contents of the Pre Budget Report a... Welfare reform - back to the future? Posted 12/10/08, 07:42 In Opposition Gordon Brown came up with a sensible economic policy which was attractive to moderate conservatives and moderate socialists. He said: 1. Cut the costs of welfare by getting more people back to work. He called welfare expenditure the œcosts of economic failure� 2. Cut the costs of i... << back