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We need Strong Government
15-Sep-06, Windsor Express Article.

Labour’s long-term leadership and party divisions appear to have finally erupted into the public domain over the last week. The feud between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair has escalated into an almighty row with ministerial resignations and allegations and counter-allegations of plotting.

Whilst sometimes shocking and sometimes entertaining, the infighting is most certainly unsettling. Not only for the disheartened Labour supporters, but it also raises questions about where the minds of Government ministers are focussed.

With the ever present threat from terror at home, our troops thinly spread abroad and problems with virtually every domestic service, it cannot be right that Labour ministers are at each others throats rather than dealing with the important matters for which they were elected. Whilst ministers argue, families continue to harassed and pressurized by incompetent erroneous tax credits payments, parents are unable to get their children into good local schools, and the NHS deficits threaten budget cuts to vital health services.

Undignified and bitter public squabbling is not acceptable for any Government and signifies their downfall - as the Conservative Government learnt in 1997. The people of Britain deserve better than a government populated by ministers more concerned with their careers than the good governance of their country. It is time for a change, we need a strong and united Government.