tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post3860084657589569818..comments2024-03-28T19:20:52.408+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Cheeky Caroline greets Labour in Brighton with 'Greens are the REAL opposition' messageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-2424463168706016802013-09-22T08:02:20.167+01:002013-09-22T08:02:20.167+01:00Well,
after listening to Ed Milliband's Speech...Well,<br />after listening to Ed Milliband's Speech on the radio yesterday It reminded me of Labour's Manifesto for 1997 in which they gave the impression of being on the side of the public.<br />but when given the chance to prove themselves they failed to live up to the following... Over the five years of a Labour government:<br /><br />Education will be our number one priority, and we will increase the share of national income spent on education as we decrease it on the bills of economic and social failure<br />There will be no increase in the basic or top rates of income tax<br />We will provide stable economic growth with low inflation, and promote dynamic and competitive business and industry at home and abroad<br />We will get 250,000 young unemployed off benefit and into work<br />We will rebuild the NHS, reducing spending on administration and increasing spending on patient care<br />We will be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime, and halve the time it takes persistent juvenile offenders to come to court<br />We will help build strong families and strong communities, and lay the foundations of a modern welfare state in pensions and community care<br />We will safeguard our environment, and develop an integrated transport policy to fight congestion and pollution<br />We will clean up politics, decentralise political power throughout the United Kingdom and put the funding of political parties on a proper and accountable basis<br />We will give Britain the leadership in Europe which Britain and Europe need.<br />someone once said that Talk is Cheap...cheap in the sense that it is easy to say whatever it takes to win the confidence of another person.<br />but it is much harder to live up to all the promises one makes<br />and that is exactly what happened in 1997.<br />many promises we made but few were kept if any?<br />for example how can a political party talk or promise to build stronger families and communities when within every community the government makes sure that most shops stock and sell cigarettes?<br />smoking causes 100,000 preventable deaths every year<br />now is that an example of helping to build stronger communities?<br /> Trevornoreply@blogger.com