Brown intervenes to make sure its English not Scottish jobs that are lost

Apparently Gordon Brown has interviewed in the takeover of HBOS by Llyods TSB to make sure that jobs and a head quarters are kept in Scotland.

This will mean equivalent jobs in England and London being lost due to direct favouritism by the 'British' Prime minister.

This is what happens when England has no voice - her interests get sold out by the likes of Brown and Darling.

Mind you - who can forget BPs promise to keep the BritOil offices in Galsgow ?

PS I'm saddened to see Bank of Scotland go like this. I lived in Edinburgh for a number of years and in many ways its influence used to be bigger than RBS. However this is how things go - the English didn't ask for special pleading when Nat West was taken over by RBS.

See also Iain Dale What About Jobs in Halifax, Mr Darling?

Who is looking after England ?

Just bumped into this on youtube .... it has some familiar faces.



Credit to EnglishCult.

Cuts in budget only for English hospitals under Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown continues to show his anti-English bias by cutting the budgets for English hospital building and equipment. See today's FT where Chris Giles and Nicholas Timmins say:

Prompted by the tightness of the public finances, the new prime minister, who has placed the NHS as his “immediate priority”, cut the capital budget of the English NHS for 2007-08 from £6.2bn to £4.2bn. The move could delay the government’s hospital building and reconfiguration programme in England.

However, Mr Brown avoided equivalent cuts to the Scottish and Welsh NHS budgets even though the funding formula for the UK nations suggests they should have shared the pain. That decision leaves him open to criticism that he favoured patients in his home country.

If only English politicians would stand up for England against this Scottish favouring government under Blair and now Brown then at least the cuts could have been shared - as they should be. The article points out that the cuts were slipped out under the radar in the March budget - how very Gordon.

This is a clear act of political malice that the Scottish Labour party and its English quislings thought no one would notice. Hazel Blears will no doubt be out protesting in her capacity as someone with no future parliamentary seat - if she dares under Gordon.

So Gordon is keeping his oath to favour Scotland ....

(Hat tip to Ex-Labour's comments on an Iain Dale post here ).