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BACKBENCHER'S 10 DEMANDS TO SAVE GORDON BROWN

MP John Mann is usually loyal to the PM

Wednesday May 7,2008

By Macer Hall

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A LABOUR MP sent Gordon Brown a series of ultimatums last night if Labour is to avoid a huge defeat at the next election.

Backbencher John Mann’s list of 10 demands for overhauling Government policy included slashing benefits paid to immigrants and far tighter monitoring of those entering the UK.

His comments were doubly embarrassing for Mr Brown as he is usually loyal to the Labour leadership.

Mr Mann said: “We cannot hope to regain our popularity without addressing these issues.

“Many people do have concerns about the effects of immigration and we cannot ignore that.

“I want Gordon Brown to deal with the issues that Tony Blair ducked.”

I want Gordon Brown to deal with the issues that Tony Blair ducked.

John Mann, Labour backbencher

Mr Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, also said that some disillusioned Labour voters were switching to the British National Party.

Last week the neo-Nazi BNP polled more votes than Labour in Cabinet Minister Ed Balls’ constituency in West Yorkshire. Mr Mann warned: “In Barnsley, Rotherham, Stoke, Leeds and Kirklees the BNP have been polling very heavily.”

Last night Tory frontbencher Chris Grayling said: “The whole thing is becoming absolutely shambolic.

“There seem to be 350 different opinions about what the Labour Party needs to do. The only person with no idea is Gordon Brown.’’

Senior Tory MP Nigel Evans said that Mr Mann was just one in a long line of worried MPs who would be “lining up’’ with ideas.

Mr Evans said: “One thing Gordon Brown won’t be short of in the coming weeks and months is advice.

“A lot of Labour MPs are clearly worried about saving their seats.

“The panic is everywhere. You can smell it a mile off.”

JOHN MANN'S POLICY DEMANDS

IDENTITY CARDS: Biometric passport should be immediately accepted as the ID Card, with a separate ID card required for everyone without a biometric British passport

BENEFITS: Should be withdrawn from those who are capable of work but refuse to do so

TAX ALLOWANCES: Should be increased to ensure over 60s pay no tax up to £20,000

LEVEL PLAYING FIELD IN EUROPE: Restrict benefits paid to temporary immigrants

ELECTED HOUSE OF LORDS: With fixed term Parliaments

ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR: Financial penalties on parents where children are running wild

HOUSING: Build 500,000 new pensioner bungalows for rent, freeing up family sized social housing, while allowing
pensioners greater choice

AGENCY WORKERS BILL: To stop employers under-cutting British wages with cheaper foreign workers

FUEL DUTY PRICE DE-ESCALATOR: To reduce duty as oil prices rise

RENEWABLE ENERGY: A major expansion of solar and other renewable energy supplies into housing, with
large incentives to invest in green alternatives

***WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT JOHN MANN'S TEN COMMANDMENTS?

DO YOU HAVE ANY TO ADD? HAVE YOUR SAY BELOW!***

A QUESTION OF SPORT

15.08.08, 7:45am

Rather that the RH J. Mann MP had set-up a No. 10 garden-party for pensioners than the current reception for a sporting body organised by the RH gentleman on the 8th of October 2008 so that extra money can be extracted from the government. A sporting organisation that already receives funding plus - 450,000 pounds sterling per annum under another guise. Pensioners could have put their real financial problems face to face with the Supreme Leader - fat chance. Real climbers / mountaineers do not need government funding...

• Posted by: denzuki • Report Comment

DAILY EXPRESS SMEARING

09.05.08, 3:01pm

In this article you refer to the BNP as the 'neo-Nazi' BNP! You don't refer to the Labour party as the 'Stalinist' Labour party and you don't refer to the Tories as the 'Fascist' Conservative party. Just what is your agenda here?

• Posted by: jonocynic9 • Report Comment

JUST ABOUT SHOWS UP "HONOURABLE MPS REMOTE UNDERSTANDING OF PUBLIC OPINION" ?

08.05.08, 9:06pm

They really have not got a clue have they , you could add another 100 ultimatums to the sorry list that this clown has managed in his tea break to scribble down, if that is really what he thinks will change peoples perception of Labour or any other Political Party , then they are all doomed one way or another !

Since when exactly did it become the Goverments God given right to run peoples lives the way they see fit !!

Power indeed corrupts the mind .

• Posted by: BratislavaUK • Report Comment

BACKBENCHER'S 10 DEMANDS TO SAVE GORDON BROWN

08.05.08, 8:05am

Nothing about purging the country of unwanted immigrants, nothing about defence, nothing about reversing the dumbing down of education, in short, nothing. It's on a par with the Tories.

• Posted by: JohnnyB • Report Comment

PS WIGGIWIG

07.05.08, 4:30pm

This govt wouldnt know a donkey from a mule and if they had to save them they wouldnt have a clue. They would probably have to instate a donkey tax which actually to be honest is a tax I wouldnt mind at all !

• Posted by: marigold • Report Comment

BROWN WILL NOT BOW TO THESE DEMANDS

07.05.08, 4:08pm

And if he does he will only be doing it in an attempt to save his neck.
But the electorate will never trust him enough to vote him in.
He may as well pack it in now and give someone else a go.
Better still call a general election ASAP.

• Posted by: marigold • Report Comment