That was then…

This is now!

Henry Gewanter, the MD of Positive Profile, was more used to the relatively mundane world of the City PR when he agreed to broker the disks of data of MPs expenses on behalf of the whistleblowers, instantly becoming one himself. Even he did not imagine the scale of the storm it created. Six months on, Steve McDowell asked him what else is to come and what is the legacy of his action…

Following Gordon Brown’s list of achievements to the Labour Party conference recently, the Shadow Chancellor William Hague MP arguably the best orator in the Political world set the record straight yesterday.

The list; in full

- £22,500 of debt for every child born in Britain
- 111 tax rises from a government that promised no tax rises at all
- The longest national tax code in the world
- 100,000 million pounds drained from British pension funds
- Gun crime up by 57%
- Violent crime up 70%
- The highest proportion of children living in workless households anywhere in Europe
- The number of pensioners living in poverty up by 100,000
- The lowest level of social mobility in the developed world
- The only G7 country with no growth this year
- One in six young people neither earning nor learning
- 5 million people on out-of –work benefits
- Missing the target of halving child poverty
- Ending up with child poverty rising in each of the last three years instead
- Cancer survival rates among the worst in Europe
- Hospital-acquired infections killing nearly three times as many people as are killed on the roads
- Falling from 4th to 13th in the world competitiveness league
- Falling from 8th to 24th in the world education rankings in maths
- Falling from 7th to 17th in the rankings in literacy
- The police spending more time on paperwork than on the beat
- Fatal stabbings at an all-time high
- Prisoners released without serving their sentences
- Foreign prisoners released and never deported
- 7 million people without an NHS dentist
- Small business taxes going up
- Business taxes raised from among the lowest to among the highest in Europe
- Tax rises for working people set for after the election
- The 10p tax rate abolished
- And the ludicrous promise to have ended boom and bust
- Our gold reserves sold for a quarter of their worth
- Our armed forces overstretched and under-supplied
- Profitable post offices closed against their will
- One of the highest rates of family breakdown in Europe
- The ‘Golden Rule’ on borrowing abandoned when it didn’t fit
- Police inspectors in 10,Downing Street
- Dossiers that were dodgy
- Mandelson resigning the first time
- Mandelson resigning the second time
- Mandelson coming back for a third time
- Bad news buried
- Personal details lost
- An election bottled
- A referendum denied

On a day where once again the Conservative Party has set the events and Policy we will see the Chancellor Alistair Darling trying to once again make up ground by announcing new Policy during the Conservative Party Conference, despicable behaviour.

It is clear that #labourlost the chance to announce this Policy during their own conference because at that time they did not have the Policy and that they are trying to steal a march on the Shadow Chancellor’s speech at the conference today.

Adam Boulton’s interview of Gordon Brown this morning has sparked debate – ironically not for its content, but its delivery. The Evening Standard said the PM “lost his cool”, but what do you think?

ChiefWhip note: Gordon, a UOR (Urgent Operational Requirement) is dramatically different from normal scaling, Adam Boulton is quite right here.

The Prime Minister’s speech at the party conference.