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If you see Gordon in pink soon it might well be that he’s sporting our little present. At least you’ll know he didn’t claim it on expenses…
Sadly, Gordon has yet to find time in between writing £6,500 cheques to his brother, at taxpayers’ expense, and building liberty-crushing databases, at taxpayers’ expense, to reply to our letter.
Sent Gordon a present? Let us know.
Henry North London, whom we featured a few days back, reports that he has confirmation that the ‘Shirt off his back’ has arrived at Downing Street.
Have you sent yours yet? Let us know.
This morning we posted Conservative Future’s standard letter calling on the Prime Minister to hold a General Election. Note the use of a broon envelope, and second class postage for a second rate PM.
Have you sent yours yet? Email us a picture when you do: edward@theyoungconservative.co.uk
As promised, today TYC did it’s bit for the Libertarian Party UK’s ‘Shirt off your back‘ campaign, and posted Gordon a suitable garment plus covering letter, the text of which is reproduced below. We also sent it recorded delivery so that we can confirm Broon has received our pressie…
“Dear Prime Minister,
Thank you for mortgaging my future.
On behalf of this nation’s youth, thank you for squandering a golden economy through 12 years of wilful fiscal ineptitude.
You tried to spin the Budget as sharing the pain with the highest earners. In fact, we all know that you merely expanded the pain to virtually every worker in this country.
I’m 24 years of age. Based on the numbers, by the time we repair the violence you have done the British economy (2032) I shall be 47 – effectively double my current age. I will spend the better part of half my working life paying for your recklessness.
This is truly generational debt you have lumbered Britain with – and for what? What will your legacy – and New Labour’s epitaph – be? I think I could write it…
One recalls Rousseau: “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” Chains you wrought, Prime Minster – every Briton is now born owing in excess of £20,000. Thank you, Prime Minister, for making debt into a birthright.
In the years to come stringent savings will have to be made – not just by governments, but by every Briton.
And so I enclose the shirt off my back. For once this is a Briton giving you something, instead of having it taken. Does it feel novel?
Labour, New and old, will be remembered by my generation with enduring bitterness.”
Have you sent your shirt to Gordon yet? Send us a picture when you do: edward@theyoungconservative.co.uk
(Feel free to use any or all of our letter)
Conservative Future (CF) is today launching a campaign to put pressure on the Prime Minister to call a General Election.
Members and supporters of CF will be writing to Downing Street to call for an election, so that the voters can choose who they want to lead them out of this recession.
CF is starting this campaign as it is their generation that is going to be saddled with the debt of this Government. The Government got us into this debt and no one believe it will be able to get us out of it.
The campaign has a standard letter that members and supporters can download, sign, print and then send to Downing Street:
http://www.conservativefuture.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/cf_letter_to_pm.pdf
The full text of the letter is:
“Dear Prime Minister,
I am writing to you as a supporter of Conservative Future, the youth wing of the Conservative Party.
Mine is the generation that will be saddled with your debt, and I think it’s only right that the country is given the chance to vote, at the earliest possible opportunity, on who should lead Britain out of your recession and forward towards a brighter future.
Throughout my formative years I have only known a Labour government, and I have witnessed the erosion of civil liberties, the damaging culture that exists at No. 10, the obscene wastes of public money and the broken promises.
On behalf of my generation, the generation that will have to repay your decade of debt, I ask you to do the right thing and call a General Election as soon as possible so that legitimacy is restored to government and trust is restored to public life.
Yours sincerely,“
Letters should be posted to:
Gordon Brown
10 Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA
Send in a picture if and when you send yours!
Looks like Gordon’s going to be receiving a lot of fan mail…
Libertarian Party UK member Henry North London has written in to say he has sent Gordon the shirt off his back, and has quite gone to town with it!
TYC’s shirt will be in tonight’s post – stay tuned.
Have you sent yours in yet? Let us know.
The Libertarian Party UK (LPUK) have a quirky campaign going in response to last week’s savage work and aspiration-taxing Budget.
They’re calling on activists to post Gordon your used shirts – because his fiscal mismanagement is taking the shirt’s off the backs of every Briton.
Shirts should be sent to :
Gordon Brown
10 Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA
If you do take part be sure to send us a snap of your parcel before you post it.
The last thing New Labour needs is a laundering scandal!
Update: Full credit to Old Holborn for this – seems the campaign has made the Times!
Update #2: The Facebook group.
Conservative Future activists rallied tonight across the country in London
(Paddington, Euston, Victoria, Charing Cross, King‘s Cross and Westminster),
as well as in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle, targeting commuters on their way home with a specially designed Budget rapid response flyer. In under two hours they distributed 20,000 of these to an often enthusiastic public. I led the team at Westminster tube station, where commuters greeted us not infrequently with replies of ‘Keep up the good work’ as we handed them literature. Sky, the BBC and ConHome attended on us.
Here’s the flyer in detail:
The response on the street was interesting when compared to last time CF held an event like that. Prior to Christmas they handed out the Labour’s Tax Bombshell warning (which proved to have unestimated Labour’s mendacity!). If the public were feeling angry back then, then tonight they were livid. Labour has done it again.
Update: University of Manchester CF post this picture:
