Parlez~me~'n~Tory

Rightly wry, satirically right

We all know how often Gordon Brown has been caught out with broken promises and his lies but now he has hit record lows in his bid to lie his way back to No10.

The PM who, it seems, is incapable of telling a single truth artificially inflated figures for job creation and then forced his lies upon not just his Cabinet but us, the general public.

I have thought about how to word this blog post and in truth I could not word it better than how it appears in the Telegraph and so is therefore reproduced below:

Shadow chief Treasury secretary Philip Hammond cited Treasury figures which suggested the true figure could be as little as half the 500,000 hailed by the PM and used in April’s Budget.

And he pointed out that even the upper end of the official estimate – which the civil servants who compiled it warned came with ”huge uncertainty” – was only 450,000.

In a letter to Sir Michael Scholar, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, Mr Hammond also pointed to Treasury advice that it would be wrong to claim credit for the contribution to the jobs figure made by independent Bank of England policies on interest rates and quantitative easing.

”The result of this presentational inaccuracy by the Prime Minister – accidental or otherwise – has been significantly to overstate the impact of the Government’s discretionary fiscal policy interventions, misleading the public, business and the financial markets with potentially serious consequences,” he said.

The Treasury note, released under freedom of information laws, advised that: ”You could say ’supported up to 450,000 jobs’ in the Budget speech.

”A public statement should be worded carefully. It would be misleading to state that this number of jobs had been created.”

The Prime Minister’s spokesman said: ”The methodology that was used is consistent with the methods the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and ILO (International Labour Organisation) use to create estimates for the G20.

”It is internationally accepted that you would round up a figure, so the figure is rounded up.”

The spokesman said that the estimates were ”correct” and added that many more jobs had been supported by Government action since the Budget.

To lie so bare faced and to in so public a fashion disgusts Parlez~me~’n~Tory.

There is now a new hashtag on Twitter #gordonsbrokenpromises feel free to use and exercise your disgust.

Today Parliament begins its summer recess and I can’t help worrying for what’s in store during the coming weeks.

Ok, we all know that the majority of the Labour Party have already taken their leave of absence 48hrs before the Norwich North by-election in a desperate bid to avoid having to be put up on display (which in certain Scottish circles is AKA DoonAHoon) to explain the pain, the agony and to convince us that this is only a mid-term protest vote.

I can even hear Gordon Brown uttering those now all-too-familiar words:

I’ve been listening to the people of this country and they don’t want an election right now they want us, the Government, the elected representatives to get on with the job of…

The usual mumbling with that inane grin as he stumbles through some badly rehearsed spiel that seems to have had the name of Tony scribbled out and Gordon written in in crayon across the top.

That the Labour Party will fail in Norwich North is not open to debate, that they will fail spectacularly is not open to debate. That the Conservatives will all but wipe Labour from the constituency is being uttered in some circles. In fact, as the Labour candidate was taken ill with swine flu last evening Lord Mandelson siezed on the opportunity to cancel a trip to the constituency claiming he didn’t want to be with the great unclean, it seems to me that Chris Ostrowski is being well and truly hung out to dry as the sacrificial lamb to the slaughter.

None of this worries me, not in the least, it is simply what we have come to expect. What does worry me, however, is how the charm offensive has come on and come on strong from No10 in the form of the PM’s wife via her Twitter account @SarahBrown10 (has anyone told her yet that pretty soon that ‘10′ will look pretty foolish)?

Having read Paul Waugh’s very brief blog this morning one could be mistaken for believing that the PM is indeed hanging up his boots, sealing the final chapter in a political disaster that can only end one way and saying goodbye to the nation; we should be so lucky.

However, let’s take that theory for a minute and put to good use the ‘charm’ machine that’s been building at quite a rapid pace and consider, just consider for one minute that the PM does return only as caretaker / manager of No10.

It has to be said, if he does that will be a substantial increase in his responsibility since he single handedly signed the governance of Great Britain PLC over to Lord Mandelson.

So, over the coming weeks I fully expect to see reports of how the Browns are:

Chowing down with some homies, b4 heading to the fitba

Enjoying lunch with needy ppl from under privileged societies

@Please_GoBro Thank you for your very kind wishes for the good work my husband does

Whereby of course @Please_GoBro doesn’t exist and there were in fact no kinds words ever uttered, certainly not for the work (good or otherwise) that Sarah’s husband does; (actually he does exist but I just haven’t posted any Tweets yet).

If you doubt what I say why not take a look at what has happened to the Daily Mail, The Times and even The Independent and Telegraph, all falling over themselves to show how ‘for the moment’ Sarah is. Now, if that isn’t the No10 PR system in full swing then what is it?

So, are we to expect a ’sudden’ resignation in early October or are we simply witnessing the first stage of the runaway charm offensive?

With a General Election deadline of 3rd June 2010 I thought it prudent to ponder a few reasons why the nation’s voters should consider placing their valuable cross in any box but Labour when the time comes.

Reason:1
National debt – Courtesy of #GoBro and Alistair (Clemtine) Darling

Sourced:Public Sector National Debt (PSND) in Table C4 of Budget 2009. PSND rising from £609.1 billion on 5 April 2009 to £792 billion a year later. This is the most conservative of the available debt indices as it excludes liabilities for PFI deals, public sector pensions and bank bailouts.

Family share: Calculated by dividing the national debt figure by the number of households in the UK. Number of households taken as 25.7 million, as per the written answer to a Parliamentary question in March 2009.

Reason:2
e-mailGate – Damian McBride and Derek Draper

Jack and Jill

For a grounding into the vile and false allegations that caused the scandal that almost unseated the man with the black felt pen click the image of Damian McBride and Derek Draper.

Reason3:
Spiralling Unemployment

Unemployment rose by a record 281,000 to 2.38 million in the three months to May the largest quarterly rise since records began in 1971.

Young people up to 24 years old have been particularly hard hit with unemployment leaping to a 16-year high of 726,000.

The number of young people out of work for more than a year rose by over 46,000 to approximately 528,000, which is the highest for 11 years, and yet we constantly hear that Labour is the best option.

30 years later, what's changed?

There seems only one option and that is for the nation to rally itself and to turn out on the day of the General Election. Right now, I don’t care who you aim to vote for but vote you must. Do NOT let this group of deceitful people cling on any longer to the power that they crave.

Please vote. If you Twitter then please follow @Parlez~me~’n~Tory and consider using the hashtag #GoBro.