Thanks to a very busy working day, I have not yet managed to watch the prime minister's speech. I hope this will be remedied this evening, however, I have read extracts from it and heard snippets on the radio and television and was given regular updates via my twitter feed.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Just when you think you have the measure of the man, you realise he is more deluded than you thought possible. It was a speech from 'Gordon in Wonderland.' Yes the British people have a choice at the next general election. They will make it and confine his premiership to the history books. He may spout out endless statistics, as he always does, but he seems incapable of admitting mistakes. Yet another Machine gun performance from the man who talks about courage, yet displays very little of it himself.
I could go on, but I won't. I really can't be bothered to work my way through the endless Brown drivel. I will refer you to another blogger, Carl Minns, who will guide you through Brown's policy on young single mothers. I don't agree with everything he says, but he does make some valid points. Put it this way, Brown seems to think more about his electoral fortunes than the rights of our citizens. You should attack the root causes of problems not the people who have the problems, without taking away the rights of individuals to control their own destiny. A tricky conundrum at times, but one that Brown doesn't understand. He has social policies akin to Stalin and Hitler, yet his wife insists he spends all his working hours thinking about others. How to screw them more like.
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The most important issue in Brown's speech should have been the Economy as we all know. In this respect his main thrust was the government's innovation fund.
But where I have to say that the £1 billion innovation fund will do nothing for the economy and Britains' future. The reason, both Blair and Brown’s government were advised between 1997 and 1998 by many of the world's leading scientists, engineers and technologists to build a 'science city' to provide for the UK's future but where they completely ignored their world leading advice. Another reason is that the government's innovation unit has people who do not understand the dynamics of innovation, have not the knowledge or skills to pick winning new technologies and cannot see the woods for the trees. We know as we dealt with them for two years and where career senior civil servants have not a clue about innovation. Indeed, the £1 billion fund will go the same way as the £15 billion spent by the regional development agencies over the past 7-years and where they have created nothing according to independent analysis. This study determined that they should be scrapped as it was a complete waste of money. The reason again, they have not the right people running the show who are competent in creating new industrial bases. So folks, don't put all your faith in this innovation fund as it will totally fail the British people as all others have done over the past 12 years. The 'old boy' network is still working well and where even a Linguist can still run such a fund as in the case of the NESTA if people investigate - the pre-runner that heralded so much in 1998 but created nothing of any real substance.
Dr David Hill
World Innovation Foundation
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