I have just finished watching Gordon Brown's speech which I have to say I found very hard to follow. He kept talking about building a fair society which was surely an admission that having been in power for 11 years they have built anything but a fair society. I also thought it was insulting to describe the NHS as Labour's NHS. It's not their NHS, it belongs to the people and for a failing Prime Minister to try to claim ownership of it is an insult to the nurses and doctors who work hard day in day out looking after the nation's health.

I tried to listen to him about education but once again he never managed to explain why under this Labour Government the gap between the best performing schools and the worst performing schools is widening, why social mobility is falling and why more and more kids are leaving school without basic literacy and numeracy skills. He should come and spend time in some of the tough inner city schools I have taught in and then he will see how in the last ten years his party have actually made it harder for kids from those schools to aspire to go to University or to do well in school. Some of their policies have actually made social mobility harder and have undermined school discipline to such an extent that in many schools teachers are little more than babysitters.

There was nothing about how he plans to bring bills down for families. This compares with Tory controlled East Riding Council who have promised that next years Council Tax increase will be below inflation and less than 4%. That is despite the Government providing East Riding residents with £96 less per person in funding than the national average. That amounts to £32 million pound in 'lost' grant.