Brown for PM??????

Question

Is it right that Gordon Brown steps into number 10, without being voted there???

people (stupidly) voted for Blair. so when he steps aside, he should not have Brown take over, ther should be an election.
surely this is an abuse of privelige and goes against our rights as voters.

labours unemployment figures fail to include the people it has hidden on training courses, people on long term sick, disabled and immigrants who are flooding into the uk(thanks to his toniness), as for house/mortgage prices, they have gone through the roof since labour came to power you now need to be an MP or a footballer in the premiership to afford a house. so joseph stick that in your manifesto.

Answer 1

NO WAY!!! There should be a leadership election,but really, they can do it if they want to!! The whole lot of them should go!! Take a look at this!!.............................
1997
1. Council tax up 6.5 per cent to Band D average of £688
2. Mortgage tax relief cut from 15 per cent to 10 per cent, saving Chancellor £800million-a-year
3. £5billion-a-year tax grab on retirement savings by scrapping dividend tax credits for pension funds
4. Private medical insurance tax relief for pensioners abolished
5. Health insurance taxed again
6. Fuel tax escalator up, leading to inflation-busting rises on petrol prices
7. Vehicle excise duty up
8. Tobacco duty escalator up (as fuel)
9. Stamp duty increased on properties over £250,000
10. Corporation tax changes
11. Windfall tax on privatised utilities, designed to raise £5.2billion
1998
12. Married couples' allowance cut from 15 per cent to 10 per cent from April 1999
13. Tax on travel insurance up
14. Tax on casinos and gaming machines up
15. Fuel tax escalator brought forward
16. Tax on company cars increased
17. Tax relief for foreign earnings abolished
18. Tax concession for certain professions abolished
19. Capital gains tax imposed on certain non-residents
20. Reinvestment relief restricted
21. Corporation tax payments brought forward
22. Stamp duty on properties increased again
23. Some petrol and oil duties raised
24. Additional diesel duties
25. Landfill tax up, from £7 to £10 per ton 26. Council tax up by 8.6 per cent for average bill on Band D property to £747
1999
27. Upper earnings limit for National Insurance contributions raised above inflation
28. National Insurance for self-employed people raised
29. Married couple's allowance abolished from 2000 for under-65s
30. Mortgage interest relief abolished from April 2000, increasing typical bill for average homeowner by £240-a-year
31. New rules to stop contractors in IT industry setting up firms to reduce their tax bills
32. High mileage discount for company cars cut
33. Tobacco duty escalator brought forward
34. Insurance premium tax up from one to five per cent
35. Vocational training relief abolished
36. Employer's National Insurance contributions extended to all benefits-in-kind
37. VAT on some banking services increased
38. Premiums paid to tenants by landlords taxed
39. Duty on minor oils, such as fuel oil, up
40. Vehicle excise duties for lorries up
41. Landfill tax escalator introduced
42. Stamp duty on properties increased again
43. Council tax up by 6.7 per cent for average bill on Band D property to £798
2000
44. Tobacco duties up by five per cent above inflation
45. Stamp duty on properties increased again
46. Extra taxation of life assurance companies
47. Rules extended on companies using foreign subsidiaries to shelter profits in low tax regime
48. Council tax up by 6.1 per cent for average bill on Band D property to £847
2001
49. Council tax up by 6.4 per cent for average bill on Band D property to £901
2002
50. Personal allowances for everybody under the age of 65 frozen
51. National Insurance rate to rise from 10 per cent to 11 per cent from April 2003
52. New NI band for higher earners
53. National Insurance for employers rises from 11 per cent to 12 per cent
54. Self-employed also rises by 1 per cent
55. North Sea taxation up
56. Tax on some alcoholic drinks up
57. New stamp duty regime aimed at stamping out tax avoidance
58. New rules on loan relationships
59. Council tax up by 8.2 per cent for average bill on Band D property to £976
2003
60. VAT on electronically supplied services
61. IR35 applied to domestic workers to stop families from reducing tax bills on nannies
62. Betting duty change
63. Tax on red diesel and fuel oil up
64. Rules extended on companies using foreign subsidiaries to shelter profits in low tax regime extended to Ireland
65. Vehicle excise duty up by £5 on cars and vans
66. Council tax up by 12.9 per cent for average bill on Band D property to £1,102
2004
67. New 19 per cent tax rate for owner-managed businesses
68. Six-fold increase in the amount of tax paid by tradesmen for using their vans outside working hours. For basic rate tax-paters, an annual rise of £110 to £660
69. UK transfer pricing introduced, substantially increasing red tape on British firms
70. Increase in rate of tax on discretionary trusts becomes 40 per cent
71. Increase in tax on red diesel fuel
72. Increase in tax on red diesel fuels, including LPG (liquid petroleum gas)
73. Council tax up by 5.9 per cent for average bill on Band D property to £1,167
2005
74. Cancellation of stamp duty land tax relief on disadvantaged areas
75. Tax on North Sea oil firms doubled from 10 per cent to 20 per cent
75. Tax on North Sea oil firms doubled from 10 per cent to 20 per cent
76. 0 per cent rate of corporation tax abolished which had been introduced by Mr Brown to encourage small businesses
77. Council tax up by 4.1 per cent for average bill on Band D property to £1,214
2006
78. Clampdown on trusts and insurance policies commonly used to cut future inheritance bills
79. Increase of £45 in vehicle excise duty for gas-guzzling 4x4s cars
80. Council tax up by 4.5 per cent for average bill on Band D property to £1,268
The years refer to when the taxes were announced but not necessarily when they were introduced. In addition to these rises the Chancellor has increased his take by dragging more and more income tax payers into the 40 per cent bracket by consistently limiting rises in allowances and top rate thresholds.

Answer 2

Less than half the electorate voted for Blair!
We should all vote, whether you agree or not with who gets elected at least it'll be by a proper democratic majority.

If any PM steps down there should automatically be a general election to choose the next incumbent. Gordon Brown should only be PM (or Call Me Dave) if over half of the electorate vote for them. If too few people vote then there should be no outright winner and we'd have a hung parliament. (I'll resist the urge to make a "hang parliament" joke)

Answer 3

Guess you are one of those stupid Tory's that ruined the country and Labour has been putting it right ever since. Lowest unemployment. lowest mortgage rates not like the Tory's 15% I do hope he becomes PM and it lasts for at least 20 years Britain will be all the better for it

What about the Tory's Poll tax trying to stop the underprivileged and youth of this country from voting what a way to try a fix election results

As for Karen S list cut mortgage tax relief from to 10% good why should i pay for you to live in a 1/4 million pound house

tax on fags up good not enough maybe more it help the health of the nation

taxing private medical insurance I say triple the tax they can afford it

I could go on but boo hoo poor little rich people

Answer 4

They don't have to call an election until their term is up and even if they did all the half wits in this country would vote their fellow Labour halfwits back in because they are utterly oblivious to the harm they are doing to Britain.

Answer 5

Tony Blair

Answer 6

How dare you question Tony?! What HE says goes - didn't you know that?
I dread to think what will happen when Mr Prudent Golden Brown gets into power. Just lie back and PREPARE TO BE TAXED up the ****

Answer 7

There is nobody in New Labour ranks who is PM material and that's the problem. Thanks to Karen for that list from the Institute for Fiscal studies. She should pass that along to every national newspaper in Britain.

Answer 8

We don't vote for the PM in the UK we vote for individual candidates (MPs who are affiliated to a party). If there are enough of them they form a government of elected (within the party) leader and his chosen ministers. That's how Gordon can be PM ..... if he's elected by the party. We elected the party.

xxB

Answer 9

Damn right there is no way I would vote for that incompetent berk, he has mortgaged the country for decades with the ludicrous P.F.I. deals / shackles.

Answer 10

If the party elect him mid-term, of course it is. Its the same for the tories, how do you think major got in,

Answer 11

why not Brown?, whoever it is will just be hated in afew years anyway. Tony Blair was practically sainted when he ridded us of the tories and then we discover that all politicians are the same, cos they have to be to stay in power.