Brown Should Speak in the Debate Tonight to Mrs Duffy and Other Humans

Many  would vote for what Mrs Duffy would vote for.  Now, like Mrs Duffy, they won't be voting for a Labour party led by Gordon Brown. 

Protect the vulnerable, treat others as you want to be treated yourself, be fair, work hard:
"It was drummed into us as children," said the mortified, courteous, so obviously kind and decent woman.

Each of us has been shocked by a different aspect of how disgraceful Brown is.  The specious response to millions of impoverished people from the former countries of realised socialism migrating into  an advanced capitalist country to possess the social wage capitalism can provide grated particularly for me:

"There are over a million people from Britain living in Europe". 

These are not people demanding social housing, educational provision, cash welfare benefits, and all the health services that go with the formation of young families - services and tax-funded provision to which the refugees from socialist reality have made no contribution.   The people from England living in continental Europe buy their own houses, bring or earn their own incomes and tend to return home for any serious claim they may be unfortunate enough to need to make on health care.  They make no claims for cash welfare payments, not least because these are not available to them. 

Liars lie in many forms and Brown rivals Lucifer in claims to be Prince of Lies.  If, this evening, we are fed mouthfuls of balderdash about global vision, saving the world, and institutionalising global governance and regulation, what will echo through my mind will be the misrepresentations to Mrs Duffy on the equivalence of immigrants and emigrants in our country.  That and the abused and shaken Mrs Duffy internalising the destruction of a lifetime's, a family's , committment to decency and politics practised on a human scale by  normal human beings.