Another Gordon Brown broken promise

Do you remember Gordon promising a £45billion programme to rebuild every secondary school in the country, whether they needed it or not by 2015. It would appear that "While the Government is pumping cash into the inner cities, the deadlines for the rest of the country have quietly been pushed back to an indeterminate date. Even if the current timetable is resumed following the review, schools in the 76 local authorities are unlikely to be touched until 2026 or beyond — 11 years after the Prime Minister's 2015 target. Michael Gove, the shadow children's secretary, said: "It looks as if Gordon Brown has quietly dropped one of his key pledges — to rebuild every secondary school… Gordon Brown's plan was hugely ambitious but yet again we see a complete failure to deliver a large scale project on time.""

So schools in Labour supporting city areas get new schools, whilst schools in the suburbs and countryside don't, I am sure that that is purely coincidental. Just like last December's report that "Billions in public money have been systematically channelled to Labour strongholds over the past decade and kept away from Opposition areas, detailed new research reveals. From lottery grants to public transport, Government resources have been diverted towards Labour's heartlands, leaving Conservative and Liberal Democrat constituencies starved of cash. A study of spending patterns by the Daily Mail exposes for the first time the full extent of the way taxpayer money has been used as a political tool by the Government since Tony Blair came to power. Across a range of policy areas, a pattern emerges that suggests the principle of Labour's notorious "heat maps" for directing health spending to Labour seats applies far more widely than realised." This from the Daily Mail before the love in with Gordon Brown. The report continued "Some of the startling findings include:

• More than 90 per cent of social security jobs relocated out of London have gone to Labour constituencies.

• National Lottery grants to constituencies represented by members of the Cabinet are nearly double those to seats held by members of the Shadow Cabinet.

• More than 70 per cent of community hospitals earmarked for closure are in Tory seats.

• In contrast more than 70 per cent of new hospitals being built are in Labour seats.

• Despite a strict formula, police forces in Labour controlled areas top the funding league, while those in Opposition areas come bottom.

• Post Office cuts and railway station closures are overwhelmingly in Opposition seats. In September Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt caused an uproar when it emerged that she had ordered senior Labour figures to produce "heat maps" of vulnerable Labour seats where hospital closures could cost the party votes.

Close study of Government figures reveals what amounts to a series of Hewitt-style "heat maps" for railways, post offices, Whitehall job transfers, lottery funding, hospital building and police budgets."

Some might say that this was a sort of gerrymandering and typical of the corruption that runs through this government; I couldn't possibly comment.