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Fuel for the inquest 1:47pm on 04 May 2008 Part of the truth is that Gordon Brown thought that the proposed cut in income tax to 20% would attract the middle England, middle class, middle income earners when he called an election whereas the abolition of the basic rate would not kick in until after the election which he expected to call and win last year. Problem is he chickened out of calling the election and now the 10% tax issue has come home to roost. The voters saw through this wheeze which the Cabinet was not big enough to kill off. The man is simply duplicitous to say now that he made a mistake. When exactly did he make that mistake? Last year? Why has it taken him so long to admit it? Does he think voters are stupid? Perhaps not anymore.
Now all he can say is that he has listened and feels voters' pain, which he patently doesn't care about. What he feels is his own pain. He says he is going to tour the country, but hold on, didn't he spend months touring the country before he was anointed Labour leader? Does someone with such a short memory deserve to be PM?
Further trouble is that he personally as Chancellor is responsible for the economic policies which mean that the Government has no scope to ease the pain which he recognises.
He is simply the wrong person on both counts to lead the Government. Labour can either ditch him now or take two years learning that they should have done so.

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