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Would not he agree that both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were tax-cutters, and that Gordon Brown and Jack McConnell are in fact tax-raisers, given that 72 taxes have risen since 1997 under the Labour Government and the Executive?
The only reason why there has been an increase in the allocation of money is that Gordon Brown and the Labour party have already taken it from the taxpayer, especially through the 53 stealth taxes that we have suffered.
On the third anniversary of the Parliament, the Conservatives have no proposals and have nothing to say.We know about the investment that we are delivering for the NHS in Scotland: Gordon Brown's budget booster for the NHS in Scotland means that we have maximum investment.
That is not the system that has been fixed by Gordon Brown in an attempt to keep hold of his power and put his unions and paymasters before patients.We believe that fundholding is the right way to go.
The costs are transferred from the private sector back into the public sector, because the Exchequer ends up picking up the costs of paying low wages. Chancellor Brown's budget yesterday contained a range of welfare initiatives.
Will she make representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown—her colleague at Westminster—to open his war chest and provide the resources that we need for community care?
How can we overcome the problems created by the economic and social policies being pursued by Messrs Darling and Brown—I use the term Messrs advisedly—when we do not have the resources here in Scotland?
When I hear of national economic development plans, I immediately think of Stalin's five-year plans—or those of George Brown—although I am sure that such a plan was not proposed last week.
That might well be my fault—mea culpa. My friend and colleague Keith Brown is now the leader of the European alliance group on the Committee of the Regions.
At the time, the stakeholder manager was a lady called Nicola Rainy-Brown, who I think has left TIE. We asked her for a copy of the environmental statement, because it is a huge document and it would have cost us £70-odd—she said—to get a hard copy of it.