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So good it needs repeating .........
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"Because we've had Labour Government not Tory Government, we have seen impressive achievements for our people.
And all of it is built on the sturdy foundations of a stable, growing economy and low unemployment, delivered by Gordon Brown.
This means a new life for millions of people. I think of what it means for my own City of Salford. In the 1980s, unemployment blighted the whole city. In 2 wards, half the men were unemployed. Public services were run down. The council didn't have the cash to make the repairs and improvements that were needed. Crime was rife.
Twenty years ago, Salford was filled with the sound of demolition, the wrecking ***** wiping out the industrial base.
The quays were a waste ground. Communities under pressure. People without hope.
Today, cranes fill the skyline, there are more people employed in Salford Quays than when it was a working docks. And soon the BBC will relocate to Salford Quays, bring a new wave of opportunities, jobs, and investment into the heart of a City which those Tories couldn't even find on a map.
It is not confined to Salford, either. Look around the great cities of Britain, go to Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff or Newcastle,
and you can see a new confidence, a new Renaissance.
The British entrepreneurial spirit flourishing against a backdrop of economic stability and renewed public services.
This transformation of our cities,
of our economy,
of the prospects for our young people,
is no accident of history;
no fluke of fortune.
............................ It is because we have a Labour Government"
Quote:-
"Because we've had Labour Government not Tory Government, we have seen impressive achievements for our people.
And all of it is built on the sturdy foundations of a stable, growing economy and low unemployment, delivered by Gordon Brown.
This means a new life for millions of people. I think of what it means for my own City of Salford. In the 1980s, unemployment blighted the whole city. In 2 wards, half the men were unemployed. Public services were run down. The council didn't have the cash to make the repairs and improvements that were needed. Crime was rife.
Twenty years ago, Salford was filled with the sound of demolition, the wrecking ***** wiping out the industrial base.
The quays were a waste ground. Communities under pressure. People without hope.
Today, cranes fill the skyline, there are more people employed in Salford Quays than when it was a working docks. And soon the BBC will relocate to Salford Quays, bring a new wave of opportunities, jobs, and investment into the heart of a City which those Tories couldn't even find on a map.
It is not confined to Salford, either. Look around the great cities of Britain, go to Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff or Newcastle,
and you can see a new confidence, a new Renaissance.
The British entrepreneurial spirit flourishing against a backdrop of economic stability and renewed public services.
This transformation of our cities,
of our economy,
of the prospects for our young people,
is no accident of history;
no fluke of fortune.
............................ It is because we have a Labour Government"
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Labour's top ten achievements for women
National Minimum Wage - a pay rise for a million low paid women. £5.05 in October 2005, £5.35 next year
Child Tax Credit for nine out of ten families - over ten million children - with most of the money paid direct to mothers.
Maternity pay up from £55 a week in 1997 to £106 a week from April this year. Paid leave up to six months, rising to nine months in 2007 and 12 months by the end of the next Parliament.
Child Trust Fund - a £250 'nest egg' for every child (£500 for the poorest families) to encourage saving.
Free nursery education for every three and four year old whose parents want it - 12 hours already, rising to 15 hours in 2010.
More than 500 Sure Start Local Programmes providing health, parenting and family support to over 400,000 children.
Flexible working rights for parents of young children. 800,000 families changed their working hours in the first year of the new law.
Tough new powers for the police and courts to protect victims of domestic violence and prosecute abusers.
Cut delays for hospital treatment so that 97 per cent of all women diagnosed with breast cancer are now treated within one month. Breast screening services expanded to woman aged 65 - 75 years old.
Two million of the poorest women pensioners extra money through the Pension Credit, so that no single pensioner now has to live on less than £105 a week. And introduced the Second State Pension to help 7.6 million women who are low earners and carers.
National Minimum Wage - a pay rise for a million low paid women. £5.05 in October 2005, £5.35 next year
Child Tax Credit for nine out of ten families - over ten million children - with most of the money paid direct to mothers.
Maternity pay up from £55 a week in 1997 to £106 a week from April this year. Paid leave up to six months, rising to nine months in 2007 and 12 months by the end of the next Parliament.
Child Trust Fund - a £250 'nest egg' for every child (£500 for the poorest families) to encourage saving.
Free nursery education for every three and four year old whose parents want it - 12 hours already, rising to 15 hours in 2010.
More than 500 Sure Start Local Programmes providing health, parenting and family support to over 400,000 children.
Flexible working rights for parents of young children. 800,000 families changed their working hours in the first year of the new law.
Tough new powers for the police and courts to protect victims of domestic violence and prosecute abusers.
Cut delays for hospital treatment so that 97 per cent of all women diagnosed with breast cancer are now treated within one month. Breast screening services expanded to woman aged 65 - 75 years old.
Two million of the poorest women pensioners extra money through the Pension Credit, so that no single pensioner now has to live on less than £105 a week. And introduced the Second State Pension to help 7.6 million women who are low earners and carers.
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Lewis you are a tool full stop. Totally sucked in by the spin of labour! I'm not even going to go into the figures that you have so obviously downloaded from the (spin we can labour) website. Wake up smell the coffee and get used to the idea Tory's are coming back! Long live Maggie she would have kicked Blairs ****!
Without doing a search what was the results on the mobile phone thread that you posted?
Without doing a search what was the results on the mobile phone thread that you posted?
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Originally Posted by pslewis
So good it needs repeating .........
Quote:-
"Because we've had Labour Government not Tory Government, we have seen impressive achievements for our people.
And all of it is built on the sturdy foundations of a stable, growing economy and low unemployment, delivered by Gordon Brown.
This means a new life for millions of people. I think of what it means for my own City of Salford. In the 1980s, unemployment blighted the whole city. In 2 wards, half the men were unemployed. Public services were run down. The council didn't have the cash to make the repairs and improvements that were needed. Crime was rife.
Twenty years ago, Salford was filled with the sound of demolition, the wrecking ***** wiping out the industrial base.
The quays were a waste ground. Communities under pressure. People without hope.
Today, cranes fill the skyline, there are more people employed in Salford Quays than when it was a working docks. And soon the BBC will relocate to Salford Quays, bring a new wave of opportunities, jobs, and investment into the heart of a City which those Tories couldn't even find on a map.
It is not confined to Salford, either. Look around the great cities of Britain, go to Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff or Newcastle,
and you can see a new confidence, a new Renaissance.
The British entrepreneurial spirit flourishing against a backdrop of economic stability and renewed public services.
This transformation of our cities,
of our economy,
of the prospects for our young people,
is no accident of history;
no fluke of fortune.
............................ It is because we have a Labour Government"
Quote:-
"Because we've had Labour Government not Tory Government, we have seen impressive achievements for our people.
And all of it is built on the sturdy foundations of a stable, growing economy and low unemployment, delivered by Gordon Brown.
This means a new life for millions of people. I think of what it means for my own City of Salford. In the 1980s, unemployment blighted the whole city. In 2 wards, half the men were unemployed. Public services were run down. The council didn't have the cash to make the repairs and improvements that were needed. Crime was rife.
Twenty years ago, Salford was filled with the sound of demolition, the wrecking ***** wiping out the industrial base.
The quays were a waste ground. Communities under pressure. People without hope.
Today, cranes fill the skyline, there are more people employed in Salford Quays than when it was a working docks. And soon the BBC will relocate to Salford Quays, bring a new wave of opportunities, jobs, and investment into the heart of a City which those Tories couldn't even find on a map.
It is not confined to Salford, either. Look around the great cities of Britain, go to Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff or Newcastle,
and you can see a new confidence, a new Renaissance.
The British entrepreneurial spirit flourishing against a backdrop of economic stability and renewed public services.
This transformation of our cities,
of our economy,
of the prospects for our young people,
is no accident of history;
no fluke of fortune.
............................ It is because we have a Labour Government"
reminds me so much of a book written in 1948....
newspeek from the ministry of truth and will the ministry of love be here soon/
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And there was me thinking that you had started on those good posts you were talking about a little while ago PSL. What a disappointment!
Can you tell us why Flash keeps overborrowing form the IMF and why they warned him about this country's fiscal performance, and why he keeps taxing us more and more whenever he can find another escuse? Where does all that money go I wonder!
Les
Can you tell us why Flash keeps overborrowing form the IMF and why they warned him about this country's fiscal performance, and why he keeps taxing us more and more whenever he can find another escuse? Where does all that money go I wonder!
Les
Last edited by Leslie; Dec 8, 2006 at 01:57 PM.
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Pete,even you must admit the dental situation is a total discgrace. We pay taxes and cant get an NHS dentist. How are poor people expected to get dental treatment.
Tony Blair should be ashamed.
Tony Blair should be ashamed.
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