"We Need A General Election," says Dan Byles, As Confidence in Gordon Brown Collapses

The country stands at a crossroads, and the decisions made this year on Government borrowing, taxation and spending could hobble us for generations. That is the view of local Conservative candidate Dan Byles, who says that Gordon Brown has no mandate or credibility to make those decisions alone.

Dan is calling for a General Election, so that the people of Britain can decide whether they want ever higher levels of Government debt under Gordon Brown, or the debt repayment and Fiscal Responsibility offered by the Conservatives.

Dan Byles, who left the Army to stand in the next General Election for North Warwickshire & Bedworth, says:

"The country has been teetering on the brink of uncertainty for too long now, and the events of the last week are the final straw. Gordon Brown is looking increasingly isolated and his fiscal stimulus plans are unravelling around his ears.

"The CBI and the Governor of the Bank of England disagree with him.

"The IMF, the European Central Bank and most European and G20 leaders disgree with him.

"And more importantly, the markets disagree with him.

"On Wednesday, Gordon Brown failed to find enough investors to lend the British Government the money it needs to fund Brown's incontinent spending. This represents a devastating collapse of international confidence in Gordon Brown's plans.

"Thanks to Gordon Brown's policies, the country is heading deeper into recession than any other Western country.

- Unemployment is rising faster than at any time in history.

- Brown's budget deficit is the highest on record.

- Manufacturing output is falling at the fastest rate since records began.

- House prices are falling at the fastest rate since records began.

- The pound has collapsed in value.

- International money markets have refused to lend Brown more money.

- Gordon Brown is reduced to printing new money in a leaf out of Robert Mugabe's economic manual..

"It is difficult to exaggerate the scale of the economic disaster Gordon Brown has led us into. And the impact here in North Warwickshire is devastating, with unemployment rising at twice the national rate and up 150% in the last 12 months alone.

"The country now stands at a crossroads, and the choice we make will have an impact on us and our children for generations.

"Do we continue with Brown's ever higher borrowing - saddling us with the largest burden of debt in history? The current President of the European Union, Czech leader Mirek Topolanek, has described this option as ‘The road to hell".

"Or do we make fiscal responsibility and debt repayment a priority as David Cameron has pledged, so that our children are not burdened with Gordon Brown's debts for a generation?"

"I don't believe that Gordon Brown has the authority, the credibility, or the mandate to make that decision for us. I believe that such a fundamental decision about how the country responds to the recession over the next 12 months should be made by the British people in a General Election. Gordon Brown has never been elected as our Prime Minister. If he clings to the belief that he is the man to lead us through this crisis, and that his policies are the right ones, he should have the courage to put them before the electorate and to seek a mandate for his actions.

"Brown is prepared to do "whatever it takes" to save his political skin. Even if it means bankrupting our children and destroying our country."