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Don't let us down now, Brown

BRITAIN’S Olympic heroes last night urged Gordon Brown not to renege on his promise to give Government funding to help our athletes equal or better this year’s medal haul at the next Games.

REFERENDUM ???

31.08.08, 3:31pm

I thought he was going to say "renege on his promise to hold a referendum". We've moved on have we ?
Funding for the EU, the EDA, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Palestine, Russia, Georgia, the A350 airbus, Zambia, China, Burma, the Wasting of Britain's Marshall Aid and etc......
Athletes may have to run for their money.

• Posted by: MERIT • Report Comment

SHOULD HE?

29.08.08, 2:52am

rhetorical question me thinks, but will he? maybe.. in a desperate bit to win the next election, but if labor gets elected I'm sure they will find a way to take it all back.

truth is the British athletes are where they are not because of their country, but in spite of it. just look at our schools and think of how many great athletes go un-discovered, un-nurtured.

hell just look at the levels of illiteracy leaving our academies and see how much we invest in each generation, labor scrapped grant and bursary systems unleashing a generation of minimum wagers on us, now they want to get them in the gym. lol

• Posted by: cor • Report Comment

DONT LET US DOWN??

24.08.08, 3:55am

Gordon Brown has let us down on everything else....he reneged on the EU referendum so why not this...promises, promises. He is a man of no substance...need i say more??

• Posted by: cocklesandeels • Report Comment

STILL BETTER THOUGH. JUST LOOK AROUND

22.08.08, 1:50am

Yes they have. We are now no different to the U.S.A. no choice, just a question of management. Read the posters on here. Feather and tar the incapable for living off £60 a week while never ccondemningthe multi and bbillionairesfleecing us in their tax havens.

• Posted by: brusselssprouts • Report Comment

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DON'T LET US DOWN NOW, BROWN - HE HAS.

21.08.08, 7:42pm

The Blair/Brown Nulabour government has already let our athletes and other sportsmen down. They have continued the Tory policy of encouraging schools to sell off their sports fields to realise capital receipts. They have cut the central government support for local councils, forcing many to choose to close swimming pools to save money. They, even in the boom years, failed to support volunteers who struggle to keep various sports facilities open.

In other words as in every thing else, this government has payed lip service to supporting sports to help an obese nation get fitter, but faild to produce anything concrete in the way of real facilities.

• Posted by: RosieInLondon • Report Comment

AH DEAR

20.08.08, 11:47pm

£600m to Team GB?

The financial catastrophe Prudence has created means we'll probably be able to chip in about £1.34 and that left over funny foreign coin you put in the Christian Aid envelope.

• Posted by: ruhe03 • Report Comment

MAGNUM ,, 20 YEARS TO RECOVER !!!

20.08.08, 10:52pm

Maybe you are being a bit optimistic , the last " recovery" period from Socialism ideals took a lot longer , and that was the Third Reich , Hitler was a Raging Socialist , it has always bought nothing but misery and strife .

As for don't let us down Brown ? .

Opposed to what exactly .

• Posted by: HarriUK • Report Comment

GIVE OUR ATHLETES THE BEST POSSIBLE CHANCE AT LONDON 2012

20.08.08, 10:29pm

What about the rest of the country this government has distroyed this country.

It will take 20 years to recover from this Labour government and the damage it hase done to the finances of this country!!!

Live and learn please pull your heads out of the sand.

• Posted by: magnum • Report Comment

BEEFSANDWICH IS RIGHT..........

20.08.08, 8:30pm

By 2012 .... Gordon Brown and labour will just be a very bad memory for most of us.........

• Posted by: nugget • Report Comment

OR-MAKE SURE CAMERON CAN'T RUIN IT

20.08.08, 1:12am

and you have the cheek to show us the eek of lord spotted ****. Some Tory **** that over sore our 1 medal in the Atlanta 1996 games.

This investment and athletic achievement is going to do a lot more and show more role models to our youth than Majors alcopos not that he had a clue, too busy with the old rumpy pumpy with edwina the egg head.

Let MY TAXES go to British youth and not Camerons inheritance tax cuts for the mega rich.

• Posted by: brusselssprouts • Report Comment

HEY! JUST WAIT A COTTON PICKING MINUTE...

19.08.08, 1:01pm

....it's NOT this Governments money and generosity that has helped the British athletes to win Medals, it's OUR Lottery money that has funded the training and facilities. Trust Brown to now jump on the bandwagon...

• Posted by: Disgruntled • Report Comment

YEAH, BELIEVE THEM.

18.08.08, 9:39pm

This bunch of dark destroyers don't tell porkies. More like Vietnamese pot bellied waddling giants. Go on, be as naive as the western powers dealing with Russia. Watch the ministry of silly talks giving you the verbal diarrhea show - the biggest dump in historey.

• Posted by: bluenote • Report Comment

BEEFSANDWICH: WOW!! YOU HAVE (ALLEGEDLY!) A LABOUR PARTY THAT TELLS PORKIES?!!

18.08.08, 9:12pm

Even my trusty donkey is nodding his head in full agreement!

Wot a way to run a country!

• Posted by: ReubenMohawali • Report Comment

REUBEN - IN ORDER TO GIVE OUR ATHLETES THE BEST POSSIBLE CHANCE AT LONDON 2012

18.08.08, 8:17pm


The fact that Gordon Brown and this lying Labour government will be history by 2010 should give our athletes the very best possible chance of success at London 2012 Olympics.

• Posted by: beefsandwich • Report Comment

BEEFSANDWICH: "SLIPPERY SNAKES" INDEED LOL!!!!!

18.08.08, 7:47pm

My eyesight may well be fading - but from this distance of over 1600 miles, I can see as clear as African daylight
that the UK is in a Godforsaken mess.

In five years time, these will be the good olde days Lol!!!

• Posted by: ReubenMohawali • Report Comment

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