Gordon Brown and the future by Zuzana Zelenakova

The general election in the UK are approaching, onlz three and a half weeks remain, and so British prime Minister Gordon Brown revealed his party´s election manifesto. Former chancellor of the exchequer during Tonz Blair´s time as Prime Minister uses the word future as the key word these days and tries to convince UK voters to leave the past behind and look ahead. "A few days ago someone asked where does New Labour stand? What business are we in - past or future? Our answer is as clear as the question was then. We are in the future business," said Gordon Brown. One of The United Kingdom‘ s biggest concerns right now is budget deficit which is about 167 bill! ion pounds (190 billion euros), however, the Prime Minister is very keen on to talk about that. Well, nobody in his place would, it is impossible that kind of money. "We are talking about phenomenal amounts per household. We are talking about borrowing 1.2 million pounds every day since the birth of Jesus," says Conservative shadow defence secretary Liam Fox. "That is what the amount of debt we now have is. This is something that is saddled on the next generation." The Labour election manifesto also promises not to raise the basic rates of the income tax for the duration of the next government. Gordon Brown announced the manifesto at Birmingham hospital and described it as ''ambitious but affordable, bold but realistic''. Naturally, the Labour party plans to help the recovery as much as possible and also to create about one million new jobs. Moreover, Green Investment Bank should be established controlling about two billion pounds in assets and having the access to billio! ns more from the private sector. The money should be used for ! boosting green energy industry and transport development.

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