If your train is late, you should blame Gordon Brown

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UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is receiving extensive criticism, partly from fellow politicians, for failing to address serious problems with road and rail transport and the London Underground. In fact, the failure to deal with transport problems can be attributed to Chancellor Gordon Brown, whose economic orthodoxy prevents him from making the necessary funds available. Prescott has rejected privatization of the London Underground, but is restricted by the Treasury's refusal to allow the Underground to raise the resources to invest in its infrastructure.

United Kingdom, Government domestic functions, Regulation and Administration of Transportation Programs, Transportation Programs-Total Govt, Transportation policy, Public transportation, Prescott, John

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Gordon is not up to his job

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UK Chancellor Gordon Brown seems to have established a power base much greater than those of any of his recent predecessors. Prime Minister Tony Blair made a significant error of judgement in agreeing that Brown would have control of economic policy in a future Labour administration in return for not contending the leadership of the Labour party. The conduct of economic policy is vital to the success of any government, and it should therefore be under Blair's control, not Brown's. The UK is now heading for a recession which is entirely of Brown's making.

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The union chiefs are right - our policies are causing job losses

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GMB leader John Edmonds has been criticized for using strong language at the 1998 Trades Union Congress conference to condemn high-earning directors. However, he is in fact right to have publicly backed the view that the government should undertake policies in the interests of voters, rather than allowing itself to remain caught up in the political repercussions of the Conservative era. He is also right to state that interest rates should be reduced to deal with the over-valued pound and that the highest earners should be taxed more heavily.

Officials and employees, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Labor unions, General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union, Edmonds, John

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