All very well Johnson admitting that Labour have 'made mistakes' on immigration policy!

All very well Johnson admitting that Labour have 'made mistakes' on immigration policy!

But New Labour's real failure is in almost every area of government  in that they completely FAILED to listen to any one else and implemented policies that were obviously going to fail!!

Brown and New Labour would appear to have no officials or 'experts' who are prepared to tell their bosses of potential problems with their policies. Perhaps Brown and New Labour really believed that only employing 'yes' men and women would be beneficial to them!!

Whatever the reason is, this government has consistently implemented policies that have simply failed to work (and been very expensive). They have consistently introduced computer systems that fail to achieve their aims (and end up being dumped or rewritten).They have consistently announced policies that failed to work.

There does seem to have been a 'hidden agenda' with New labour's immigration policies.  It would seem to be that their failure to manage immigration was in fact what the government wanted!

Did Brown really need to introduce policies to solve the credit crunch problems which would seem to have resulted in bigger, but different, problems for the UK!

Obviously some of what Brown has done regarding the credit crunch was needed. But was it really a rational choice to put the UK into such massive debt? It is beginning to look like the medicine may have cured the patient but, unfortunately, the patient died from the effects of the medicine!

It seems to me that Brown is very, very confused about the reasons why the war in Afghanistan is going on.

He has said today:

'we cannot, must not and will not walk away as long as Al-Qaeda continues to plot attacks on Britain from the region'

What region is this???

Does he mean Afghanistan? OR perhaps he means Iraq? or Pakistan? I am not aware of any group in Afghanistan plotting attacks on the UK.

Even if there were, there are Islamic extremists in many other countries of the world who may be plotting to attack the UK. ARE WE NOW GOING TO WAR AGAINST THEM!!

Pakistan should be a prime target for the UK IF Brown is concerned about Al-Qaeda plotting attacks on Britain!!

Brown has introduced other reasons for our involvement in the war in Afghanistan. This includes allowing women to be educated and other aspects of the way women are treated.  So is the UK now going to attack all countries which treat women like this? Some sort of crusade throughout the world against Islam perhaps?

The whole political thinking and strategy of this government is a complete mess! Just like the way that they run the UK! So no surprise there!

Gordon Brown said:

"I am naturally concerned that the taxpayer gets a fair deal - especially that the taxpayer gets a fair deal from the institutions that in the last year have benefited massively from support across the world."

So does Gordon Brown think that this is a fair deal for the taxpayers?

Borrowing billions of pounds in their name and expecting them to pay extra taxes for the next 25 years in order to pay the debts?

I just wonder how much would need to have been borrowed to prevent the closure of shops like Woolworths, which employed lots of people!!

And I have also said many times that these banks should not be allowed to get rid of any staff on a non-voluntary basis. They have been given billions of taxpayers money, yet are allowed to fire staff! This not only adds to the unemployment levels, brings the miseries of families losing homes, and removes yet more spending power by people in employment.

There does not appear to be any joined up thinking in the way that Brown and Darling are managing the UK economy!