News from the New Party

A government in meltdown

• the NHS funding crisis means that hospitals are being forced to close, notwithstanding the truly astronomical amounts of cash thrown at it by Gordon Brown;
• the education system continues to plumb new depths with less than half of British schoolchildren achieving GCSE Maths and English, even with academic standards plunging and qualifications at all levels becoming increasingly devalued;
• our service personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan are denied the equipment the weapons and equipment they need, not just to fight, but even to protect themselves;
• our Civil Service, once the pride of the world, is now hopelessly politicised, and therefore compromised;
• a police investigation into the "Cash for Peerages" scandal has already reached within 10 Downing Street and is coming perilously close to the Prime Minister himself;
• the Prime Minister's authority is now so hopelessly shattered that his views on the Catholic adoption row have been entirely ignored by the majority of his Cabinet colleagues.

"For it is far from clear whether the accession of Gordon Brown ... will provide a fresh start. It is only if integrity is restored to public administration - which in turn means upholding historic British institutions and values rather than trying to turn them into something quite different - that we will be competently governed once again."