Thanks Keir

You have been Labour for 23yrs, oh dear. Blair was a true Tory, yer tunip.

 

This is what ..... ‘a true Tory’ ....can provide

1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.

2. Low mortgage rates.

3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.

4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.

5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.

6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.

7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.

8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.

9. Employment is at its highest level ever.

10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.

11. 85,000 more nurses.

12. 32,000 more doctors.

13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards.

14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.

15. Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.

16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.

17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.

18. Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.

19. Restored city-wide government to London.

20. Record number of students in higher education.

21. Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.

22. Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.

23. Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.

25. On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.


26. Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.

27. Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.

28. All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.

29. A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.

30. 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.

31. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.

32. Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.

33. Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.

34. Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.

35. Banned fox hunting.

36. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.

37. Free TV licences for over-75s.

38. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.

39. Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.

40. Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.

41. New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.

42. Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.

43. Free eye test for over 60s.

44. More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.

45. Free entry to national museums and galleries.

46. Overseas aid budget more than doubled.

47. Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.

48. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.

49. Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.

50. Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.

 

Whilst I agree and am keen to move on from the depressing factionalism it's a shame this didn't happen when Corbyn was democratically elected as leader

 

The more people take this attitude, the longer we’ll have this UKIP government

 

This debate is all well & good , but what about the real issue , who is going to play in the centre of the defence tomorrow at Chelsea ?

 

that's a very grown up retort.

 

& yet you voted this Fckstain in. What's all that about?

 

Halme

 

Ian Beale

 

If we play a back three again, there’s not much to debate. There’s only three players available

 

That’s a result of action though, what’s the action you agree with?

 

Could you provide a list of sources for these? I'm genuinely interested.

Or have you copied and pasted it from the Britain First Facebook Page?

 

I could be wrong but I think it's a list of everything that happened under Blair's rule

 

If you didn’t know that then you shouldn’t be posting on this thread.
Fonzie.

 

Could you do another list highlighting the cuts to the achievements you mention since 2010.

 

And people on the left always seem to bicker amongst themselves in my opinion. To the general public anything like that looks pants. Tories usually look united even when they're not

 

I will for him most of them apart from maybe the minimum wage which is set by an independent body. Tories have spent ten years turning this country back 30 years and that was before Covid arrived.

 

And putting "yay another political thread" every 2 mins is, is it?

Sorry am i getting on your back

 

Starmer will either from a political sense be the new Blair (big elections wins) or be the new Kinnock (party and TU infighting, with a sprinkle of optimism ending in a crushing defeat.)

 

To say Johnson is closer to your political views because 'he just is' is no answer at all mate. What is it about Johnson, his views, his policies or his actions do you think are credible and sound?