Gordon Brown - Free childcare plan for 12-year-olds (scorched earth).

Gordon Brown's announcement to provide free child care for two-year-olds is just another example of slight of hand from a desperate government. For one thing this so called policy is stretched out over the next ten years. That's ten years of extra spending that Gordon Brown will have stitched a Conservative government up with. We can expect more of these generous offers to be announced in the dieing days of this Labour government.

Making these expensive promises (with our tax money) is easy for Brown, they will either help him cling to power, in which case they can be quietly dropped later, or he will be leaving the bill for Cameron to pick up. Brown will announce policies that the country cannot afford, and then he will sit back in his retirement rocker and watch David Cameron struggle to re-seed the scorched earth he inherited.

We need a General Election as soon as possible, as any delay will give Brown more chance to run up national debt.

Glasgow East - I feel sorry for Labour Grassroots.

No, I'm not poking fun at the Labour faithful after last night's devastating defeat. I've been a member of the Conservative party for just over a year, and prior to that I was an out and out Labour supporter. Until about 2003 the Labour party could do no wrong in my eyes. However, I did realise that I was making excuses for their apparent inability to manage public spending. I was all for their increased expenditure in our services, and I believed that more money would bring top class health and education systems.

By the 2005 General Election I was becoming very disillusioned, but I was still willing to give Labour the benefit of the doubt. I hoped that after eight years of pumping money into our services and what seemed like endless reforms, that a third term in government would see them finally come to grips with actually managing what they had put in place. Of course I was kidding myself.

By 2006 I was totally disillusioned and was in a political limbo, not knowing which party to support. By 2007 I had been following politics for a while via the web, in particular through political blogs. It was about this time that I realised that my personal beliefs were more in line with Tory policy, in fact their policies were so good that Labour were stealing them.

In the last year the Labour party has crumbled further under Gordon Brown's leadership. Brown is not the man to be running this country, and some of the ridiculous policies he has pushed out have only turned (what should be rock solid) Labour voters against the party. His claims of being a great Chancellor have turned to dust as we realise that in the face of an economic downturn we have massive debt. If we have had ten years of being led by an economic genius, why are we so skint? When times were good Brown gambled with our money, he spent like an American heiress and borrowed more when his credit was maxed out.

In the face of defeat in 2010 it looks like Brown could be adopting a Scorched Earth policy by borrowing more and leaving the Tories with the bill. Unfortunately it looks like we could be stuck with Brown for another two years if the Labour party do not get their act together and put nation before party. If they want to stay in power, Labour need to find a way to get rid of Brown without triggering a General Election which they cannot afford to fight (however two unelected PMs would be hard for the public to swallow). If this proves impossible, then for the good of the nation, Labour need to get rid of Brown, call an election, and accept that they are going to be out of power for at least one term.

Even Labour's most ardent supporters must realise that two more years of Brown will do nothing but harm to this country. He must go.

Gordon Brown sets out to destroy the economy for Cameron.

Gordon Brown knows (just like the rest of us) that his (and his party's) days in power are numbered. Because Brown has made a complete mess of our economy he is faced with only one choice: He must carry on with (or speed up) his incompetent policy of spend, spend, spend, borrow, borrow, borrow, if Labour are to regain power within the next decade. Brown will leave a financial wasteland for the Tories to inherit. To start the ball rolling in his Scorched Earth campaign we have had the hint that the government are planning to relax their fiscal rules - in other words they have failed to save for a rainy day and are now going to run the economy into the ground and bury it in a mountain of debt. Fraser Nelson over on the Spectator Coffee House blog describes the situation perfectly:

Brown has realised that if the Tories win the next election, he is now spending with Cameron’s Gold Card – every by-election bribe, every union sellout will be funded by borrowing with the bill sent to D. Cameron Esq. Cameron will have to tax us to pay for what Brown is today spending.

It certainly looks as though Gordon Brown may have overplayed his reputation of economic genius for the last 11 years. We are slipping into economic meltdown and what do we have to show for 11 years of the maestro's work? Well Sky News tell us that:

Public sector net borrowing for the first quarter of 2008/2009 was £24billion, the biggest quarterly figure since records began in 1946. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics today also show that public sector debt at the end of June stood at 38.3 percent of GDP, the highest since July 1999. The fiscal rules were laid down by Mr Brown as Chancellor when Labour came to power in 1997 in an effort to assure the party's reputation for economic competence. But with the Government predicted to face a £8bn tax revenue shortfall because of the current economic downturn, it appears they will be breached soon. Sky's political Correspondent Niall Paterson said: "Gordon Brown is faced with a tricky situation... an estimated £8bn shortfall in tax revenue. "He appears to have two options - raise taxes, unpopular at a time of economic slowdown, or declare that the economic cycle is over and rewrite the fiscal rules."

And let us not forget the Government's borrowing which they have conveniently failed to add to their figures. To put this in the simple terms of your typical household: Your outgoings are greater than your incomings, you can't afford to pay the bills and you are going to lose the house. Sounds bad? Well not for Brown it doesn't, because he is just going to hand the whole mess over to the Tories and join Tony Blair in the millionaires club.