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3 Sep
8:33am, 3 Sep 2024
33,014 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
Yeah, but other than *that*, what did the Labour Party ever do for us?
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3 Sep
8:37am, 3 Sep 2024
29,154 posts
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richmac
And all that strained by 1 slumlord. Shows why Starmers control freakery is needed, for labour to be successful there cannot be a single thing out of place.
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3 Sep
8:42am, 3 Sep 2024
33,015 posts
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Johnny Blaze
"Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution."
And look where we are now. We have signs all over the River Avon telling people the water is not fit to swim in. My son got a shocker of a GI infection swimming in Norfolk last week.
So what changed? Oh, we voted in a bunch of jerks who couldn't give a monkeys. Well shame on us.
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3 Sep
8:42am, 3 Sep 2024
11,561 posts
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Fields
I would argue it’s not compatible to be a landlord and a Labour MP
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3 Sep
8:48am, 3 Sep 2024
17,726 posts
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jda
Oh I agree that Blair’s Labour govt did a lot of good things. Starmer is no Blair.
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3 Sep
8:54am, 3 Sep 2024
33,016 posts
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Johnny Blaze
He's only been in power 8 weeks... The social achievements of the Labour Party are a continuum not a destination, and we will see that in the years to come.
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3 Sep
8:57am, 3 Sep 2024
33,017 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Despite winning nearly 50 per cent of the vote, Labour lost office in 1951. Attlee was succeeded by Hugh Gaitskell and would not return to power until 1964 under the leadership of Harold Wilson. The Labour governments (1964-70 and 1974-79) under Wilson and then James Callaghan were marked by a period of great change: the permanent ending of the death penalty, decriminalisation of homosexuality, legislation to outlaw racial discrimination, and the establishment of the Open University.
It was Barbara Castle, our Secretary of State for Employment, who also brought about significant social change, as she introduced the groundbreaking Equal Pay Act of 1970. Once again Labour men and women led the way in modernising and reforming Britain to improve the lives of millions.
Yeah, but besides all *that*...
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3 Sep
8:58am, 3 Sep 2024
33,018 posts
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Johnny Blaze
By the end of World War II, the British public were crying out for change. Labour would lead that change.
Our manifesto ‘Let us Face the Future’ laid out a bold vision, pledging to destroy the five ‘evil giants’: want, squalor, disease, ignorance and unemployment. It was a message which captured the imagination of the country and took Clement Attlee into Number 10 on the back of a landslide, winning 393 seats.
Attlee’s Labour government wasted little time enacting visionary change, introducing social security, bringing key industries back into public ownership and introducing a major programme of house building, providing safe and secure homes.
But it was the Attlee government’s introduction of the National Health Service which will rightly go down as Labour’s greatest achievement. Spearheaded by Health Secretary, Nye Bevan, the creation of the NHS has transformed our country, removing the anxiety of illness from millions of families. To this day the NHS is a national treasure and Labour will always protect it.
Granted, but what have they actually *done*? For us?
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3 Sep
9:14am, 3 Sep 2024
33,019 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Britain’s most senior civil servant has said the previous Conservative government’s failure to hold a spending review in its final years in office has contributed to uncertainty over the public finances.
Cabinet secretary Simon Case made the claim in a leaked letter as he denied allegations by the Conservatives that the new government’s claims to have inherited an economic "black hole" were bringing the civil service into "disrepute".
Former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt wrote to Mr Case in July saying it was "deeply troubling" that Rachel Reeves’s claims about the public finances appeared to contradict formal government spending estimates published shortly beforehand.
In his response, which has been leaked to the BBC, Mr Case said the mismatch identified by Mr Hunt was a result of the compressed parliamentary timetable between the sudden general election and the summer.
But then he went further, questioning why the government in which Mr Hunt served had not updated different departments’ budgets since 2021.
"I would also note that the sizeable in-year changes to spending plans in recent years have resulted from the lack of a new Spending Review to replan departmental budgets in the face of significant pressures which have materialised since budgets were set in 2021," Mr Case wrote.
"By the time the election was called, we were in the final year of the 2021 Spending Review period. The most effective way to transparently identify, quantify and address those pressures would have been to conduct a prompt Spending Review."
At another point, Mr Case said that "unlike previous years" the current government "has set out to Parliament the pressures that it is having to manage down and the actions it is taking to do so".
Oh.
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3 Sep
9:19am, 3 Sep 2024
45,904 posts
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SPR
I'm sure the Tories could come up with a list of historic achievements as well, it however doesn't deal with the specific issues they had in the last years of their government and is why they were kicked out.
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