Gordon Brown visits county
Tuesday 4th May 2010, 3:45PM BST.
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GORDON BROWN was mobbed by shoppers and Labour party loyalists as he arrived in Telford.
A crowd of about 200 gathered outside Asda in Donnington Wood to see the Prime Minister yesterday afternoon (Monday, May 4).
The moment he stepped from his Range Rover, Mr Brown, accompanied by wife Sarah, was mobbed.
- See today’s Shropshire Star for more pictures and reports
Security staff had to jostle to escort him through the scrum to meet shoppers and workers.
Addressing staff, Mr Brown said: “The reason I am going around the country is I feel we have fought so hard to get through this recession and I don’t want mistakes by other parties to put that at risk.
Believe
“Your jobs are on the ballot paper; your schools are on the ballot paper; your prospects for your sons and daughters are on the ballot paper and our policing is on the ballot paper.”
He added: “I believe in the NHS; I believe in the best schools and I believe in our police force.”
Mr Brown faced tough questioning from Asda staff. He was tackled on cervical cancer by one worker, who quizzed him on why women in England were not invited for a smear test until the age of 25 when others in Wales and Scotland were offered tests at a younger age.
Another worker, June Walker, 35, of Stirchley, said: “I have never voted in my life, so I will be asking the Prime Minister how he was going to persuade me to vote.” Allison Edwards, of Telford, also managed to speak to the PM.
She said: “I just wanted to say thanks. I have an autistic son born the day Labour came to power. Autism has only been raised in the Labour manifesto and I just wanted to thank him for looking at it.”
Mr Brown was also greeted by Labour party activists carrying posters who cheered their support in a bid to drown out placard-waving Conservative protesters, including Otis Ferry, son of rock star Brian Ferry.
The protesters also brandished SOS Save Our Services placards from the recent fight to safeguard the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford.
The Asda store is just in the Wrekin constituency — a stone’s throw from the Telford seat being defended by Labour’s candidate David Wright.
Commitment
Mr Wright was on site to greet the Prime Minister and he said: “It’s great that Gordon is in Telford & Wrekin today. It shows Labour’s commitment to our town.
“We have seen massive investment by the Government over the years.
“I hope people won’t put it at risk by voting Conservative.”
By Simon Hardy
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Bet he will be kept well away from any bakeriess. He doesn’t want to meet any little old ladies who are buying bread.
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I was lucky enough to be at ASDA Donnington Wood when the Prime Minister arrived. The scuffles by the people to see him were quite frightening. I was at the back and in front of me a couple of young lads lunged towards the front of the crowd shouting something I could not quite hear and were pulled back by security. Why do people have to behave in such an un-civilised way?
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Uncivilised behaviour by uncivilised people trying to see an uncivilised Prime Miniser in an uncivilised area.
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I thought he was quite well educated and cultured so find ‘uncivilised’ a bit of strange word to describe him!
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H.St. John Peasbody, go back to tending your moat. you’re nothing but a squit! My only wish for you is to be bitten by a Badger.
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Less of the uncivilisd mate. Gordon Brown maybe, but lay off the rest with your uncivilised comments
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If one looks for ‘uncivilised’ behaviour they will surely find it. Perhaps H. St John Peasbody should switch his attention to looking for the best in people. As for his comment on an ‘uncivilised’ area, I can assure him that the people of East Shropshire are friendly, polite and hard working individuals. It is however a shame that Peasbody has not been endowed with such good manners. Perhaps he is the sort of individual the PM would refer to as ‘bigoted’.
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Peasbody how daer you say I live in an uncivilised area, my parents borught me up to be polite and mind my p’s and q’s.Dont tar everyone withe the same brush,your the uncivilised one here’s a big fat hint if you dont like it around here MOVE…
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My god, Are you still lurking H.St. John Peasbody, It’s about time you disapeared isn’t it? I mean what a depressing, sad, Misrable life you lead?
Theres lots of places and professionals that can help you out there… Oh but then again you don’t appreciate professionals either because you had to take it upon yourself to moan about the Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service… I guess their un-civilised too?
Go out man, Get a job, Get a hobby, do something worth doing instead of sat on the computer all day in your pants and string vest waiting to moan about the next story that hits the headlines!
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Hey ! Peasebody strikes again, can’t you people see that he just says anything to wind people up. He doesn’t mean anything, he is just a sad lonely person that nobody talks to, and the only way he can find satisfaction in life is to comment on everything he can find and then sit back and read the replies.
If you want him to stop, just don’t rise too his comments and eventually he will just wither away into obscurity.
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this man is a war criminal and he has crippled our economy he should be locked up with b liar and the other socialists, never never vote for him, he will only raise your taxes and he is scottish!
we need a change, a new leader who will severe ties with europe, lock up the foreign immigrants and slash our taxes by getting rid of all the public sector jobs
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Sounds like your a tory!!!!! TOFF
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Whoever gets in power will raise your taxes. We need ties with Europe to survive. Lock up innocent people? I’m not a labour supporter, but you sir are clearly an idiot of the highest order.
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Bet Gordon Brown wont be seen again if he doesnt win! The man makes my flesh creep, he has shown his true colours and what he REALLY thinks of us the people who have kept him in a job!
He is only intested in himself!
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At least he bothered to turn up…
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2010/05/05/cameron-in-county-visit/
Cameron couldn’t even be bothered to stop to use the facilities…
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personally i think hes OK, hes a steady hand on the wheel, when the economies on a rollercoster at least he understands basic macro economic theory
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Think you really need to get out more!
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I was also at Asda today
The Tories were awful! Mark Pritchard and Tom Biggins were there parading themselves as the savours of the PRH, but when asked directed questions about what a Tory government would do for the PRH and RSH they dodged the question! Also the very fact that the used SOS PRH, banners was a disgrace!! That was a Telford and Wrekin Council campaign backed by every single Cllr, and people in Telford and Wrekin regardless of their politics, yet the Tories decided to play politics with the campaign – utter disgrace!!!
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I to was at Asda today and may i say the tories were not a disgrace,i think it was becuase labour was out numberd .I stood watching when i found out that Gorden Brown was comming and takeing it all in and if you stood there like i did and listend to what the GENERAL PUBLIC was saying it was no wonder he was husseld in to the store as quick as possible and as for the tories using the sos prh banners so what you said the tories decided to play politics well is it not all about that,at the end of the day they are only trying to save the prh and it is the labour goverment that are doing all the cuts.As far as i am cocerned it does not matter who you vote for they all tell you what they are going to do if they win but when they do it all changes you mark my word!!
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No, it’s the Eastern European folk who should keep away from bakeries Matt.
Like our MP, Daniel Kawcynski perhaps?
He could be on the wrong end of a French Stick, Belgium bun or Ciabatta loaf if he were to meet a ‘salt of the earth’ older lady! :)
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they only show face come election day,
traveling the country like they actualy give a damn about the little people their meeting that pay their wages/homes/expence accounts.
governments too busy brown nosing to america,borrowing money & taking the uk into more debt with the banks & paying more attention to forign affairs than than the state of our own country.
just drive past & give them the finger,it’s all they deserve.
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Were they shouting ” I agree with Nick!”
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Well done Labour PR trying to make Gordon Brown look like people like him !!! I bet Labour supporters where rallied round for that !!
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I was at Asda too and Gordon Brown was great. It’s time he ditched the spin doctors and just bes himself – he is a good man who cares about my kids, and their school. I was thinking of voting Lib dem but I will be backing labour in Muxton
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gordon thinks he “saved the world” but i think it would be better for all the banks to go bust personally i dont have any savings so im not bothered, i’d have been minus a load of student loans so i’d have been pleased to see them all go bust, they deserve it and all their customers should have thought twice before putting money into companies like that
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Great input. Pleased to see you have yourself and ONLY yourself in mind when voicing your opinion on politics. That made me laugh :)
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#2 Linda
maybe they are two of the 900,000 in the 16-24 year age group who have been betrayed by New Labour spin and lies and simply want to work.
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Adam, if there has been a betrayal of youth, I suggest you look to employers, who rather than train and employ people within the UK, are looking for every opportunity to asset strip UK companies of their jobs and take those jobs to centres of cheaper labour abroad.
The Tories will only make it easier for employers to get away with this.
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Vote for the party that has the right mandate that suits you, not the person.
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I THINK PEOPLE HAVE FORGOT THE LAST TIME THE CONSERATIVES WERE IN WITH THEIR HIGH INTEREST RATES 14.7 IMAGINE A MORGAGE UNDER THEM KNOW AND HIGH INFLATION WITH NO JOBS ALSO LOW EARINGS NO MINIMUN WAGE,TAX CREDITS FOR CHILDREN WILL GO.SO I SAY WELL DONE LABOUR AND GOOD LUCK ON THURSDAY.
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It amazes me that people can be so gullible and consider Gordon Brown a ‘decent man’! Just go back a week to the lies he told in Rochdale. It amazes me even more when he says he is the person to get us out of recession, and people fall for it, for pities sake, wake up and smell the coffee, he was in charge while this Country was being ruined by him and his even more corrupt predecessor.
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yey, the shropshire star has finally a story of international news. for 45 mins lol
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I must say Sarah looks happy, another supermarket, another bunch of supermarket flowera (grown abroad no doubt) and I bet she is fed up seeing the same faces, as I bet labour have a crowd of the same people now that they coach around and follow a script, as they do not want another mistake with the real!!!! public.
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Bye bye Gordon, don’t come back please – good luck down the job centre on Friday!
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I hope the party that win helps the majority.Ofcourse benefits ,immigration,etc need to be looked at and looked at hard. However did we not have mass youth unemployment before?? and what was the answer YTS and community programme schemes for the unemployed both were abused to the extreme, poverty wages paid by employment agencies and employers who abused the unemployed and the guys who owned and ran them know who they are, community programmes run by the early retired lot with a good pension who it seemed thought the word idle did not apply to them. OAP left to freeze or if they needed a few quid etc told to go to work ay 70plus poll tax???/ dress it up how you like that paved the way for the obscene council tax rebanding is coming folks, . People have very short memories so i am going to look after number one and if the majority do the wtong thing on thursday well live with it So no the party who cares and is firm gets my vote. We do have decent employers who pay a fair wgae and are happy to do so however hw do they compete with an immoral employer? unless they act like pigs also.
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Les did you learn to spell under a Labour government by any chance?
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Mobbed by shoppers and Labour activists, my foot! Considering the Labour Prime minister was appearing at ASDA there was a pathetic Labour turnout. I counted at least as many, if not more, Conservative supporters. And the so-called shoppers delighted to see him – well, they weren’t. Most people you talked to said they hated Brown and were voting Conservative. Also, Labour were furious that the Tories turned up in force. They were hoping to keep the meeting secret so Gordon could meet “ordinary”, i.e. Labour friendly, well-briefed, voters. So how did everyone else know about the Prime Minister’s appearance. It was on Shropshire Star posters outside newsagents at 10 in the morning telling us all that Brown was visiting ASDA in Donnington later. Pah! So much for security. The Labour buffoons can’t even get that right. God forbid that we get another 5 years of those idiots.
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go gordo, equality for all, we love you!!!
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I heard he only came to ASDA as he heard there was a job going….It would seem that as of Friday he will needing a new one!!!
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Les, this was when the government set the interest rates. Granted, Labour gave the Bank of England independence to set the rates, but there are no proposals by any parties to reverse that.
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less of uncivilised area thank you it is a great friendly place to live in and its nothin like it was years ago when it was known to be a bad area!!Donnington is never in the news about any murders rapes fights or anything really so there!!!
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I was there today and find the term “uncivilised” a little over the top The unruly behaviour came from the conserative supporters who were obviously there to cause distruption to the visiting prime minister
For those of you still undecided think back to when the conservatives were last in power!!
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Tony was NOT voted in and hopefully will NOT be voted in this time round ;) All party leaders are two faced… and good old Tony proved that with his comments about his little old lady friend
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Dan,
You appear to be very confused. You don’t even seem to know the Prime Minister’s name.
I suggest that you don’t vote, since you clearly have not a clue about what or whom you might be voting for.
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Errr, who’s this “Tony” you’re on about Dan?
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P.S. so wish i’d have been at Asda in time to join anyone giving him abuse !!!! useless prat
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No worries Dan you would have probably gone to Tescos by mistake
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Doesn’t it just sum it all up, in “The Birthplace Of Industry” Gordon Brown’s photo opportunity’s in a supermarket.Manufacturing R.I.P.
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18 years of right wing dogma followed by 13 years of plastic tories ensured we can now make little more than latte and sandwiches.
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May i ask one question to the uni grads. I have heard them saying they cant get a job , what are you going to do when a tory guv tells you to take a shelf stacking job because you have been on benefts for 3 months?? live of mummy and daddy take 5 years out or get your hands dirty and work for your benefits.
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Hopefully, the new Government will teach us all how to spell correctly as well.
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i live in donny and it is not incivilized!
i got 3 kids and need my benefits. the torries might stop them.
vote for gordon! he has a cool surname too lol!
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Says it all.
3 kids, benefits, tory’s putting a stop to those benefits …
The answer? “Vote Gordon”.
Wrong. Don’t vote Gordon. It is Labour who continue to fuel the abuse of benefits. For god’s sake, lets remove the baffoon from office…
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Is it not weird how nasty many tory voters can be?, Bully= people with issues comes to mind.Fight your corner with politics not personal attacks you just come across as the one in the office every one snears at once you leave to go home.And it also seems as it is public sector jobs to go big time so you may well feel what it is like to face the nasty party, Ive met a few of you .
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Rich we all know who you are voting for your name says it all,i bet you went to public school you little toff.
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Oh dear the tory bus passed on by Telford and went on to montgomery , i gave dave a wave as he went past.However listening to the Daily Mail political editor the British public may be passing the tory’s by.Should never have asked for a leadership debate Blair avoided it so did thatcher (sack the adviser dave)
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i like him more and more every time i see him, hes actually not as bad as the media make out, hes done a good job in the recession, i am tempted but still undecided between him and clegg
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Labour Voters = Chavs, want every benefit they can get without working)
Conservative Voters = Hard working people that don’t want to pay everybody elses benefits
Lib Dems = ‘Also ran’s’ that make up ridiculous policies to try and convince / trick people to voting for them. Voters: Young people will vote for Clegg beacuse they think he has ‘Charisma’… and will not have looked at their unconvincing polices
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That’s not true, I earn just over £14k a year, the Tory’s will probably raise tax for the bracket that I’m in, reduce benefits if I end up out of work and give the rich and corporations tax breaks.
I think people have amnesia when it comes to what good Labour has done but the media would rather only report the bad.
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Hey ! Peasebody strikes again, can’t you people see that he just says anything to wind people up. He doesn’t mean anything, he is just a sad lonely person that nobody talks to, and the only way he can find satisfaction in life is to comment on everything he can find and then sit back and read the replies.
If you want him to stop, just don’t rise too his comments and eventually he will just wither away into obscurity.
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