Labour Generation — a poem by Marc Fortuna

That is not just any Nation

it is a kingdon mother of many nations

Be you from Scotland

Be you from Wales

Be you from England

You are children od Britain

Land of great expectation.

That is not just any Party

it is a party that brings great changes

The party of the NHS reform

The party of the minimun wages

The party of the Sure Start

We are Labour generation

Party of great realizations.

No matter whwre in the world we are

We vote Labour ´cause Labour is the best so far

British people united again

UK Labour Party the power will maintain.

It is not about to gain a fourth term

It is the mark for a new generation

Where the good work started in the past terms

Will fulfill the needs of our nlessed Nation.

I love Britain...

I vote Labour !

©Marc Fortuna (Lord Fortuna of Lancaster)

22/04/10 - 23h15m

Letter from Gordon Brown to Marc Fortuna

Dear Marcelo Fortuna

I wanted to write to you personally to let you know how pleased I am you have made the decision to join at such important time, and about the important role you can play in winning the election for Labour.

With our member´s support we have already achieved so much — the shortest NHS waiting times since records began, a national minimum wage, more nurses than ever, and two million children helped through Sure Start.

None of this happened by chance. It happened because people of conscience, goodwill and determination made a commitment to come together for a combined purpose. Bringing real change and righting inequalities are the prime reasons that made me decide to join the Labour Party. We are stronger because of your decision to join us.

But we cannot rest on our achievements; we must fight to protect them and to strive to improve upon them. There is no end point for creating a better society, and there is no stage at which we can be happy to sit back assuming we have done all we can.

Labour´s priorities remain the same: securing the recovery including protecting the jobs and homes of ordinary people, protecting frontline services, standing up for the many not the few and investing in new industries. A Tory government would put all of this at risk.

Despite their new words, the Tories still offer the same ideas. By opposing action to give real help to those who need it and instead concentrating on tax breaks for millionaires, they show where their priorities truly lie.

Just like they did in the last recession, the Tories would walk on by, leaving British people to fend for themselves, whilst cutting the public services they rely on.

We have a duty to make sure that the Tories are never able to debase our country again. And you have an important role to play.

You are our strongest advocate with your friends and in your community. You have the opportunity to help Labour win a forth term, to become a community champion, to stand for local or national Government. What you do and how far you go is entirely up to you.

Whichever route you choose to take I know our party is so much stronger with you on our side. We have an awe inspiring responsability resting on our shoulders and I know that we can, and must, continue our work for a better and stronger Britain.

Yours sincerelly,

Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP

Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party

Labour Party through the years

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been regarded as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales since 1920. However, it has only recently begun to organize once more in Northern Ireland. Labour first surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s.

Since then, the party has experienced several spells in government, at first in minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and again from 1929 until 1931. It then became a junior partner in the wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, ultimately forming majority governments under Clement Attlee from 1945 until 1951 and again under Harold Wilson from1964 to 1970. Labour was also in government from 1974 to 1979, first under Wilson and then James Callaghan.

The Labour Party won a majority in the 1997 general election under the leadership of Tony Blair, its first general election victory since October 1974 and the first general election since1970 in which it had exceeded 40% of the popular vote. It has 13 members in the European Parliament. The Labour Party is a member of the Party of European Socialists and the Socialist International. The party's current leader is Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Gordon Brown's speech on immigration

In a speech in Shoreditch, East London, the Prime Minister outlined that Labour's reforms are controlling immigration – net migration has fallen 30 per cent between 2007 and 2008.


People recognise the positives of migration - economically and socially - but they also want to see fair rules that nobody can duck. Labour’s new Australian-style points-based system means that only those who have the skills to benefit our economy can come here.


Skilled jobs must now be advertised here for four weeks before employers can bring someone in from outside. And as our investment in the training of young people and adult workers raises our local skills levels - the need for skilled migrant workers can be substantially reduced.


While Labour is committed to fair rules to control immigration and benefit the British economy, the Tories' proposed quota system would be arbitrary and bad for business.


Gordon Brown said:


"The system we have introduced gives us the ability to secure the skills we need and to secure our borders against those who are not welcome here".


"And I believe the responsible way to debate migration … is to debate how we can use this system over the coming years to continue to control migration fairly, to reduce the overall need for migration, while continuing to attract the key people who will make the biggest contribution to the growth of our economy."

Tony Blair in Sedgefield

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair addressed Labour party members at the Trimdon Labour Club in Sedgefield, his former parliamentary constituency, Tuesday March 30, 2010.

Speaking in support of current Prime Minister Gordon Brown for Britain's forthcoming election, Blair said that while Britain was not yet "out of the woods" following the financial crisis, it was "on the path out" as a result of the actions taken by Brown.

"At the moment of peril the world acted. Britain acted. The decision to act required experience, judgment and boldness. It required leadership. Gordon Brown supplied it," he said

Britons trust Labour over opposition on economy

Britain's opposition Conservatives, whose overall opinion poll lead has narrowed in the run-up to an election, have fallen behind the ruling Labour Party on the key issue of economic trust, a poll found on March 26.

Britons are more likely to trust Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government than the Conservatives to run the economy, which has just emerged from its deepest recession since World War Two, the ComRes poll showed.

The poll, conducted after finance minister Alistair Darling's annual budget on Wednesday, found 33 percent of those questioned trusted Brown and Darling most to run the economy.

That compared with 27 percent who favored Conservative leader David Cameron and his finance spokesman George Osborne, and 13 percent who favored the Liberal Democrats.

The last time this question was asked in a similar poll on December 10, the Conservatives led with 33 percent and Labour was on 26 percent, with the Liberal Democrats on 19 percent.

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