What Are Your Policies, Mr Brown?

Back in August 2007 I wrote THIS about everyone carping on about the Conservatives having no policies. OK, probably not an original thought to be found in any of the piece EXCEPT the bit where I said the following:

"As far as I can see they (Labour) have done most of the things they set out to do in 1997 and most of it is all buggered up now and they have no new ideas. They're tired...."

None of that has changed since last August - in fact, it's far, far worse now for Brown's Labour Party - and there will be worse to come as the economy becomes much more difficult to revive, stagflation takes hold, unemployment starts to rise, house repossessions explode and the level of tax income starts to fall and Alistair Darling has to borrow even more. What happens to Brown's Golden Rule then? What happens to his reputation for financial prudence then? No more boom and bust, eh?

In the aftermath of the Crewe and Nantwich by-election disaster for Labour we are hearing their desperate ministers and MPs (those still loyal to Brown, at any rate) switching back to the only kind of spin they can now deploy which can simply be summarised as follows:

"The Tories have got no policies - but those they have got are uncosted and will result in draconian cuts of public services."

Apart from the simple fact that none of this true, it demonstrates how desperate that Labour has become. They must not be allowed to get away with this and be firmly and swiftly rebutted.

As Conservatives continue to roll-out their policy programme they must constantly remind voters that the Labour Party has no new or original ideas of their own and those they do have are just a continuation of the stale and outworn experiments that have failed and will fail again.

Most of all, they must remind people that Labour has lost all sense of principled government and are just desperate to hang on to power - even by the skin of Gordon Brown's finger tips - and there's not much of that left now! (And yes, this really is a photo of Gordon Brown's fingers!)