How To Sponge Off The State, By Gordon Brown
The Daily Mail has unearthed a 200 page pamphlet produced by Gordon in his socialist student days, giving parasites a load of helpful hints and tips about how to sponge a living from state benefits. These days, Gordon has translated his ideas into a reality with the highest number of people off work on sickness benefit ever seen.
It is not a leaked copy of Gordon Brown’s manifesto in his campaign to succeed Tony Blair, but a 200-page booklet produced as a socialist student leader in the Seventies, long before “stealth taxes” were invented.
However, cynics will say the seeds of the welfare State boom under Labour can be seen in the document edited by 22-year-old firebrand Brown when Rector of Edinburgh University.
Entitled Alternative Edinburgh, it provides a revealing insight into his attitudes to the State and the law in its suggestions of ways to live for free.
“If you’re British and can give an address, free money is available from social security, basic £5.80 per week,” it says.
“Social and medical benefits are your right, not charity hand-outs, so never be reticent about claiming them. For whatever the reason the so-called welfare State was brought into being, it can and must be used to its full extent.”
Young Brown had his own “five-year plan”: a council takeover of shops, pubs and cafes, a crackdown on car owners and a 50 per cent rise in local taxes to help the working class.
Some may say little has changed.
A taste of things to come once Gordon moves nextdoor to become Prime Minister, perhaps?
