Labour put another nail in the coffin of our Post Offices this week when it blocked a Conservative motion in Parliament that would have suspended government plans to shut 2,500 Post Offices, including many in our local area.

But yet again Labour MPs closed ranks to stop action being taken to save our Post Offices.

Time and time again Labour has rejected Conservative moves to try and keep our Post Offices open. Our Post Offices need to be freed from the regulations restricting their freedom that are forcing them out of business.

As far back as 1999 we were trying to get the government to free our Post Offices from this red tape straightjacket. Labour rejected action to save Post Offices then, with support from local Lib Dem MP Norman Baker by the way, and today they continue to ignore the damage the loss of Post Offices is doing to communities across the UK.

Will Labour see sense before our Post Offices become no more than a memory?

As our country enters a phenomenally difficult economic phase our government is intent on playing petty politics with the police. Our Home Secretary has had an almost unanimous vote of no confidence in her and there are calls for her to resign by the police. How can the Home Secretary function without the support of the police?

At a time when our police officers are under more demands than ever, terrorism, excessive alcohol induced violence in our town centres every evening and dealing with more violent crime on a daily basis. Our officers are subject to a pathetic onslaught from this government when the Scottish government has paid it in full.

The police deserve our support and their pay is never enough for the hard work and real sacrifices they make. My grandather was a policeman in Brighton and the police do a fantastic job protecting us.

With the economic clouds looming over our country some economists are prediciting 4 million unemployed and a 40 per cent drop in house prices. Let us hope these predictions are wrong.

But if the attempts of the various central banks to shore up confidence and liquidity in our markets fails, where will the liquidity come from? The cost of loans will increase, we will all be paying a heavy price for the losses from very exuberant lending over the last 10 years.

It sends a chill through us as we begin the holiday season. Let us hope that any economic turmoil will be short lived. This government’s actions in relation to Northern Rock have still not been accounted for. There may be a heavy price to pay for us all in the future.

Some good news is needed! How about the fact that my daughter is singing at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday. She is only 6. Kylie had better watch out!!

What a week! The Labour government is in serious trouble. Northern Rock, the personal data of 25 million people lost in the post, the mistreatment of our troops and now a Labour Party funding scandal under police investigation. And I am sure other serious problems have been overshadowed in all this chaos.

The country is suffering as the Prime Minister is paralysed by events of his own party’s making.

The latest figures on house prices and the economy also make for bad news. We are not immune from the economic problems the US has faced. In fact Gordon Brown has made us more vulnerable to this instability by ignoring the warning signs and piling taxes and regulations on businesses and families.

Some really bad local news is the plans to shut several Post Offices across the constituency. Post Offices in Landport, North Chailey, Polegate, Newhaven and Seaford are all set to go. It’s an outrage and will hurt older and disabled people.

These closures could of been avoided if the Labour government didn’t repeatedly block Conservative efforts to give Post Offices more freedom so they could stay profitable and open.

I find it particularly hypocritical of Norman Baker to start moaning about these closures when he voted with Labour stop the reforms our Post Offices need. Norman Baker should be ashamed of the role he played in Parliament in killing off our local Post Offices.

It’s been another week of floundering around by the Labour government.

They are unclear on the number of immigrants and they are freeing prisoners before they have served their time. Then there’s the u-turning security minister, who one minute believes there’s no evidence to back government’s latest misguided terrorism law than - after a chat with Gordon Brown just an hour or so later - changes his mind and says there’s lots of evidence.

Economic growth is also disintegrating fast and food bills are soaring. The Labour government is in for a rocky year ahead, unfortunately its us would will suffer for their mistakes.

Let’s hope we get the chance to kick out Gordon Brown and his bumbling colleagues soon.

Today, Thursday 1st of November will be remembered as the day of the General Election that never was.

Had Gordon Brown not run away from calling it, by midnight tonight Lewes could have had a new MP, one who delivers results.

The election may have been cancelled, but the need for results certainly isn’t!

Enjoyed Michael Gove’s dissection of Gordon Brown’s government yesterday, very thoughtful - always felt Brown was a bit of a Wizard of Oz character pretending he was much better at his job than he is. You only need to look at the billions he has swiped from people’s pensions to know Gordon Brown can’t be trusted.

As if we needed any more proof of how empty and visionless Gordon Brown’s government is, Chancellor Alistair Darling used his pre-budget speech today to steal a bunch of our policies.

That said their inheritance tax cut is much smaller than what my party has promised to do and the £600,000 threshold is something many couples have been able to get already, so yet again Labour are announcing policies that fall apart as soon as you look at the detail.

And things don’t get any better when you look at the comprehensive spending review, Labour’s spending plans for the next three years. Its almost entirely reheated promises and reannouncements. Labour’s clearly out of ideas, it’s time they called an election and allowed voters to put their broken government out of its misery.