Share 5 views You can airbrush your posters, David, but you can’t airbrush your policies. In the last leadership debate, Gordon Brown spoke for all of us when he demanded to know what the Tories will do to safeguard the economic recovery and protect jobs. No surprise – Cameron refused to offer any guarantees. Over the last two years, the Tories have used every trick in the PR handbook in order to duck the difficult questions. As t...
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Share 8 views Governing is difficult, and we know that over the last 13 years Labour hasn’t always lived up to all our expectations. They haven’t given us everything we’ve asked for. But, when it comes down to it, Labour has changed Britain for the better. So what about the Tories? Make no mistake, we know what they stand for: greed. Big cuts to public spending, soaring unemployment, scrapping rules that give mums and dads ...
Share 5 views ICM/Guardian Poll A shock Poll in the guardian puts Labour much Closer to the Tories than any one could have suggested previously. Labour still have strong support and are suggesting a radical manifesto for a new Parliament. The draft manifesto, due to be put to a joint cabinet and national executive meeting on Wednesday evening, offers two dominant themes, of renewing the economy and establishing clearer citizens’ righ...
Share 4 views Labours Pledge Card When we think about what we now take for granted as part of our social fabric, many have been things introduced by Labour over the last 13 years. a doubling of the investment in the NHS, which has resulted in things like the halving of deaths from heart attack. FREE access to galleries and museums, remember it was the Tories that made us pay. The removal of discrimination like clause 28. Free bus trav...
Share 6 views Times are hard, yes cuts, savings and economies will have to be made. We must reduce the defecit. No business has ever liked National Insurance, mainly because when you have it taken from your wages they have to be extra too. However taxes will and must rise as a way of paying off our debts. National Insurance is the fairest way of all, its a tax that does not penalise the less well off and it was designed to help fund o...
Share 3 views George Osborne - "Out of his depth" George Osborne, the Tory “shallow” chancellor’s, announcement on national Insurance today and his performance in the chancellors’ debate show a panicked man, making up policy on the hoof. when it comes to our economy he’s completely out of his depth. The Tories: Putting the recovery at risk ✘ George Osborne’s proposals on National Insurance Contributions would derail th...
Share 8 views Better looking that Thatcher but more ruthless. Its not a fear its a fact. Although times are Dark, it has been Labour that took steps to stop a recession becoming a depression, the same steps then taken by other countries, and lauded as good economic sense. The Tories would have done the opposite and where would we have been now. The Tory account of what they would have done to save the economy is unconvincing and their p...
Share 29 views Today is the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the National Minimum Wage. Thanks to a Labour government – and in the teeth of Conservative opposition – the National Minimum Wage first started paying into people’s pockets in April 1999. Since then it has made a huge difference in making work pay and helping thousands of families out of poverty in Britain. It remains one of our proudest achievements. Today is also t...
Share 5 views There is an argument over Labour achievements, and use of stats which are a double edged sword…if they say that things are better then they are seen as lies; if they say things are worse they are used to attack Labour. We remember Lewes in Tory times in the 80s and early 90s, with empty shops and unemployment. br /The last time we had economic problems and a world wide downturn the Tories were in charge of the country, an...
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