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Brown cannot see the financial repercussions over defence
As you would expect I am no fan of Gordon Brown or this lunatic Labour Government. However I am seriously of the growing opinion that Gordon Brown is simply in denial over much of this failed Labour Governmenst’s lack of ability and understanding in dealing with what is crystal clear to the vast majority of people all across the UK.
This is symptomatic of Brown and his lack lustre cronies and hangons in the cabinet who between them wouldent know common sense if it jumped up and bit them on their behind !
Defence of the nation is paramount in these uncertain times and to have such appalling lack of understanding on simple basics as we can see from the report below is shocking and very alarming.
I dont know who we should fear the most. Al -Qaeda or another term of Labour. Frankly its my honest belief that the latter would be more of a threat to and do more damage to Britain. Probably already have !
Jim Ferguson
Brown still in denial over defence black hole
Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox has responded to the publication of the Government’s defence Green Paper.
“Bob Ainsworth deserves genuine praise for his attempts to find a cross party consensus. This Green Paper indicates that the MoD is coming out of denial but the Prime Minister is not”, he said.
Fox criticised Gordon Brown for “undermining a Secretary of State on the front page of the Times”, contrasting the Defence Secretary’s defence cut backs in December with the Prime Minister’s announcement of defence increases this week.
He also criticised the Prime Minister’s office for “briefing that any project that has job implications for the Prime Minister’s constituency will be spared”.
Fox said he agreed that France and the United States are likely to be our main strategic partners, but added that there were two tests: ”Do they invest in defence? And do they fight? Too few European allies pass both these tests.”
And he called on the Government to “give honest answers about the implications of the cost overruns in the years ahead”, given that – unlike the Opposition and the House of Commons - it has access to all the costs of the contracts and penalty clauses for the major programmes.
Later on, Fox called on Gordon Brown to apologise for misleading the House of Commons. At Prime Minister’s Questions he repeatedly made the allegation that the Conservatives pledged to cut defence spending at the 2005 election, when the manifesto was committed to a £2.7bn increase in frontline spending.
Read Liam Fox’s speech in Parliament in response to the Secretary of State’s statement
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