The Problem With Gordon…

Gordon Brown has a problem. In fact he has several problems. Delete that. He has several massive headaches that he needs to deal with, very quickly.

The Prime Minister has allowed all of these problems to build up over time, for no reason at all.

If we look at the immediate problem to hand at this time, for Mr. Brown and his Chancellor, they have until the end of play, Tuesday to work out how they are going to appease the hauliers who have been involved in go-slows up and down the country, this past week. With blockades going up in Spain, Portugal, Italy and especially France, Mr. Brown has to be decisive in what he does. The government needs to avoid a repetition of the protests in Europe as in the above countries, new governments have just been recently elected, or in the case of Prime Minister Zapatero, in Spain, re-elected, whereas, Chairman Brown, had been anointed by the Labour Leadership, without going to the country.

The Labour government also has to realize that the hauliers would not just have the support of the majority of the electorate (including myself), they could potentially have the support of some organizations who you wouldn't associate with such a protest.

Being on, some of the left-wing websites, there is an undercurrent of resentment towards the government, in the way that they have continued to cosy up to the oil companies, who are making record amounts of profits as a direct result of oil prices going through the roof. Of course, one way to see a fall in oil prices would be the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and withdraw all British troops from there immediately.

The Iraq war, as anyone with a brain realizes was an imperialist adventure, and the original strategic plan was to see oil prices back down to as little as $10 a barrel, which was a pipedream.

Instead, the defeat which has occurred has caused nothing but, increase tensions in the Middle East, the Gulf and Central Asia, if it needed any further help. That has caused the inevitable spike in oil prices, which are causing these unprecedented profits for Halliburton, Exxon and BP. That in turn has prepared the way for the US subprime mortgage meltdown, and the financial crisis that is being played out in front of our eyes as we speak.

That Brown won't take any action against the oil speculators. These are the cunts who acquire oil stocks, years in advance and in turn assist in driving up the oil prices.

Therefore, the working class is stuck with bankrupt and out-dated policies, and a corrupt and capitalist system that will mean rapidly increasing inflation, which will inevitably cause the cutting of earnings savagely as well as high interest rates that will means millions of jobs lost, and the resulting bankruptcy of many small businesses, while the threat of homelessness will hang over millions of homeowners powerless to service their ludicrously enormous mortgages.

Mr. Brown has a big decision to make this week. If he makes the wrong decision, it could take Labour out of power for a generation. The trade unions need to make their voices heard, and speak for their workers and not for their self-interest, as they have done in the past.

A lot of people have got an awful lot to lose…