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Dear Prime Minister

.. an open letter to Gordon Brown

Dear Prime Minister,

It seems that open letters outlining your current failings are all the trend at the moment, so despite having written formally only some weeks ago about the arrogance that was the Heathrow Expansion decision here I am again shouting from my hill top.

What I think you fail to understand is that as young budding business professionals we are taught that one key principal behind any successful organisation is accountability, a principal that until recently I was sure you must be familiar with.

However in the last six months I have not only been barraged with worsening economic difficulties by your inept management of our country's finances, but your droning voice sprouting what can only be described as verbal diarrhea. You demonstrated this eloquently when interviewed by Ewan Davies on the BBC Radio 4 Today show, where you not only failed to accept any failings on your part, but did a masterful job of trying to drown out Ewan with the same old self-protectionist nonsense.

So why am I really angry Gordon? Let's get down to brass tacks!

Well truthfully I don't really know where to begin, you have such a long list to your name that it's like finding straw in a hay-stack! However let's begin:

• Not only do you seem unable to accept responsibility for your failings but you seem determined to place non-proportional blame at someone else's door, and yes that includes the ordinary hard-working punters such as myself.
• Although I am clever enough (truly I am - believe me Gordon) to understand the important role banks play in our economy and that they must be protected, your number one priority seems to be that of the chairman of the particular institution or industry you are claiming to save. I am therefore convinced that the interests of the tax payer in any deal 'done' (without the prior knowledge or approval of our parliament of course) is merely an after-thought.
• You seem to have wasted a staggering amount of tax payers money on failed initiatives over the years, but the reduction in VAT just takes the biscuit! Do you REALLY think someone saving £2 on a £100 iPod is going to make them rush out to Argos? No! What it did accomplish was to lose HMRC revenue, waste valuable parliamentary time with discussion, and COST ME MONEY updating accounting and e-commerce systems with new and temporary rates.
• It seems although I went to a lot of trouble going to the voting booth on election day to elect a representative to speak on my behalf in parliament you seem painstakingly determined to ignore them - and that includes those on your own benches! Now although I can imagine you often feel you know better than us lowly folk, to ignore those who might one day (quite soon) occupy your seat is just pure arrogance and stupidity.
• Coming to one of my old time favorites - "What a great idea you have there! Dear Country, have you heard my new idea?". It seems to me that people have been coming up with alternative suggestions to combat the economic crises left right and centre. Did you not feel for one moment they might be worth listening to? .. because it sure seems to me I'm listening to the same idea coming from your noggin only months later!
• You seemed completely unable to comprehend that all your initiatives to get people back into work (even before they'd started to lose their jobs) would be futile if instead you'd forced the banks to lend money and implemented a scheme to underwrite loans (for more than 2% of small businesses) so they wouldn't be losing their jobs in the first place!
• It seems of little consequence to you that you're piling us and generations to come with massive debt on a roll of the dice which isn't really necessary. What you are instead doing is rolling the dice, with our money, to save your own bacon. Pretty lame, I'll send you an invoice.
• Now although you deem the plight of the weakening pound irrelevant (well apart from when shifting the blame for it's downslide on other people) you seem to forget that now that UK industry is ravaged and we no longer produce goods here - we need to buy from abroad. So although you bestowed the main-street punter with a VAT cut, all the goods they now want to buy are shooting up in price by 20-30%. Those of us lucky enough to beat the price increases are now paying bigger insurance premiums to make sure we can afford to replace them when some bugger thief's 'em.

Now really Gordon I could go on, but quite frankly there are people reading this who have better things to do with their time, like trying to pay their energy bills.

So what do I want you to do Gordon?

What I would ask if that you LISTEN and stop being so bloddy arrogant, I'd say it doesn't suit you - but I believe it does!

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