if money is spent it would be better invested in wind , wave farms - nuclear power stations and the severn barrage . all work should be sourced with uk companies.

Jeff Harvey, bristol,

This government have promised a new county hospital in Gwent for the last eleven years - they always had the money and were saving it for a marginal general election.

JP, Newport, UK

Railways for goodness sake, Bring the railways up to date!

S. Barraclough, Huddersfield, Yorkshire W. R.

The government has already spent billions on schools and hospitals and neither have improved.
Labour simply don't know how to run an economy.Everytime thay have come to power they have brought the country to its knees.
It's time for a change."Yes we can."

James Currie, London, UK

The real nature of this crisis needs to be addressed.
Britain's GDP is built on debt from Eastern money and now the flow of this cheap money has stopped, the economy must change drastically.
Incentives to reinvigorate REAL WEALTH creation are needed; Keynesian fiscal policies will bankrupt the Govt.

JB, Seef, Bahrain

ah yes, more managers for schools and hospitals; that will do nicely!!!

Mike, Denham, uk

Money invested in education should go straight into creating more teachers - so less pupils per class - lets have a state education which can complete with the independent sector. Jobs for today, and real investment for the future. Imagine a 1st class education for everyone with 15 to 20 per class

Sunny, Sheffield, South Yorks

Savo is right, invest it all in manufacturing.

michael bradley, Northampton, Northamptonshire

More taxpayers money down a black hole. The only way to rebuild our economy is by in-sourcing manufacturing again.

Paul, Coventry,

It strikes me the only people who disapprove of Gordon Brown's fiscal stimulus are card-carrying Conservatives. But they would, wouldn't they. The IMF, who George Osborne quotes when it suits him, has recommended GB and other nations inject 2% of GDP via tax cuts and borrowing. GB 1, GO O.

Val Daniels, Mijas Costa, Spain

Investment should be put in to the transport and infrastructure sector. The country needs new roads plus dedicated north-south high speed rail. Large infrastructure projects, along with Crossrail, the Olympics and nuclear power, will keep Britain afloat and provide financial benefits for 100 years

Mike Henry, Abu Dhabi, UAE

I thought that the NHS was so strapped for cash, that NICE rations drugs on account of them being expensive - ie not enough money.

Phil, Preston,

Am I sufferiing from delusions or has this wretched idea not been vigorously pursued by Nu Labour in previous regimes; where untold Billions on billions of tax payers money has hurled at the NHS only to end up with a service that has failed nearly all and enriched a privileged few?

Mike O Connor, Plymouth,

Can I assume that the Government is recomending that we go out and borrow beyond our means in order to support our current lifestyles? Mind you they once suggested Icelandic banks too!

Roger Lorton, Nongprue, Thailand

UK PLC needs to completely re-educate and re-tool itself. It will be the only way it can survive by offering something of value to the world. UK Gov should offer incentives to get as many kids into higher education as it can. Incentives for 100% school attendance records, that would focus some minds

ipd, Tokyo, Japan

Cruel smoke and mirror, the government will do ppp to build and renovate school, pushing the debt on to local council tax and the nhs budget, right to buy homes is the way to build out of the recession.

michael joseph, adams-cahersiveen, madness.

What a surprise. Labour are going to buy votes by pouring more money into the Public Sector and giving handouts to the low paid and jobless. Not worth being prudent in this country. But then Brown's and Darling's pensions are nice and safe.

Bruce Burniston, Swansea, UK

If extra billions can't go into manufacturing, it is wholly predictable with an election on the horizon that Labour will trumpet its intention to pour them into the twin black holes of health and education, neither of which are delivering. Defence is in dire straits. It desperately needs support.

Mike , Bicester, UK

The "tax cur" will undoubtably be nothing of the sort.
In Nulabourspeak unemployment benefit is a "non-working family tax credit" and certainly unemployment is the only growth sector this government has blessed us with.
So we can look forward to higher taxes for people who actually pay tax.

Dr Ray, Hereford,

I guess the imf is unaware of the billions that nulabour has already spent on hospitals and schools. and of the fact that it has largely been wasted.

perhaps to boost our economy we could start to make stuff and sell it?

jem, london, uk

Time for some pork barrel politicking, what's the betting only labour seats will benefit?

Mitch, Wolverhampton, England

We as a country are overborrowed at the personal level as well as a national level. Mr Brown is trying to give us another fix of debt so he can get re lected. He is telling the banks to start lending again and people to carry on spending.Issue us another credit card and give us another loan Mr Brown

george georgiou, rotherham, england

Hasn't billions already been spent on "education" and the NHS by this government?

Does Darling expect to go on conning the electorate with the same sort of waffle and throwing our money around?

Labour is simply unfit for government.

Pinkie, London, United Kingdom

Money needs to be invested in producing green energy, ideally at user/local level and thus cut down utility costs to individuals and reducing the hostage to oil prices from abroad.
This at least would be of both short and long term benefit.

P Barrett, Plymouth,

Lovely, so feckless spenders who don't pay any actual tax get a huge windfall that the rest of us have to pay for later.

What a huge redistribution of wealth........for nothing.

Downing Street must be reverberating to the sound of 'The Red Flag...."

AP, Bristol,

Typical goody goody nonsense. It is true that the government needs to provide some stimulus but it should be spending money on things that are going to produce long term growth. Spending the money on infrastructure and wind-farms would be a lot more sensible.

John Small, Faversham, UK

Before this bombed out, disastrous Government starts robbing the NHS of its "surpluses" to build new hospitals I would suggest that it spends such "surpluses" in getting the present NHS into proper running order. But I doubt that Brown and his cronies have the brains to do such a thing.

albert hall, hove, england

Gordon refused to allow reform of the public services: more borrowed money poured into the bottomless pit of the unreformed bureaucratic NHS will not help fight recession, just keep more 'jobsworths' in their posts. As for education: everything Labour touches turns to dross. Cut spending to cut tax.

Donna Walker, Effingham, England

Reducing costs for small business would help stimulate the economy. A couple of years ago diesel was around the same price as unleaded and now its about 15p a litre dearer. Get the differential back to parity and help businesses that run vehicles and also the majority of private motorists.

Victor Roberts, Peebles, Scotland

How dare this government, having got us into this mess through allowing debt to reach unsustainable levels, propose to get us into even more debt! They will cripple us financially for years. I just hope the money is invested in businesses that produce wealth and sustain jobs, not "vote winning"...

Tim, Salisbury, UK

Will all this spending be via the private finance iniative or will the govt put the money up front.
It kind of destroys the argument for the former if the latter occurs

rick, melbourne,

Moving money is wealth creation - stagnant money (spending cuts or savings) is anathema in today's circumstances. I'm a natural Conservative, but Brown's and Darling's approach is the only one to soften the hurt of; and shorten, the recession. Osbourne's spending cuts take money out of the economy.

Mike Armitage, Manchester, U.K.

The answer is a massive road building scheme, starting with making the M25 6 lanes each way. This is the best time to do it, when there are less cars on the road (i.e. in a recession) and will provide loads of skilled and unskilled labour.

George, Grantham,

NHS surpluses? That's a good one. We have been told that the NHS cannot afford expensive drugs for cancer patients, yet remarkably monies that should be spent on the sick are being channelled into tax cuts. These tax cuts must be seen as a pre-election bribe.

Dwight Vandryver, Scholar Green, UK

The desperate 'narrative' being strummed by Campbell is that a) everybody in the world is doing this and b) the IMF told us to.

Even better, the extra borrowing will push the pound down and then Labour will blame Osbourne!

Clever. But reckless. Don't expect your readers to be spun so easily

P Orrell, London, UK

But .... We have already spent Billions on Schools and Hospitals!

Here in Swindon we have a shiny new PFI hospital, four brand new schools and a new FE college.

And the local population are STILL unhealthy and uneducated!

Pedro, Swindon,

our ecconomy has been run like 1 giant pyramid scam for the past 10 years. public and private debt, public spending and private shopping. there has been no real growth like in america or china,(ie no british silicon valley so as soon as debt stops growing our ecconomy nosedives. labours plan is?????

will, grimsby, uk

Labour will do what they've done for the last eleven years only on a bigger scale, which is spend the money and have nothing to show for it.

Robert, Wigan, GB

Schemes which improve the infrastructure of the country should be encouraged, but those that just blow money away - such as Skills Academies and other 'make-work' ideas dreamt up to reward public officials - really should be scrapped.

J Jenkins, York,

They do not know what to do!
Money invested in schools and hospitals is always welcome, but it is not the best way to invest when in crisis.
It is not money invested, it is just money spent for ever.
Investment in manufacturing starts to return money, reduces import and create jobs in 3-6 months.

savo, london, uk