I will vote Labour. Tories are even worse for my working class family.
I surprised you decided to choose Labour for your "working class family".
Here is a few of Labour's achievements from their last few terms in government:
- University Top-up Fees, huge student loans, debt and low job prospects
- Gap between rich and poor biggest since the war
- Lies on the EU constitution/treaty and refusal to offer a referendum
- Immigration uncontrolled intentionally for political purposes
- Bailing out the banks whilst they stick two fingers up with their continued bonuses
- PFI finance schemes
- Private pensions wrecked
- Selling our gold when it was at the lowest price for 20 years costing £2bn, it has since trebled
- Out of control burgeoning public sector and public pensions
- Over officious local councils and council tax rises over the rate inflation, doubling since 1997
- Scrapping of the 10p Tax band hitting the poor, claiming it to be a good thing before changing it back
- DNA database
- ID cards
- Selling of DVLA data to anyone who will pay
- Peter Mandelson back after being booted out twice for wrong doing and given the title 'Lord'
- Impending energy crisis by dithering on new power stations
- Failure to build more prisons, deciding to release prisoners early instead
- PCSOs
- Poverty at a nine year high
- Quangos
- NHS superbugs and dirty hospitals
- Carelessness over vital personal data being lost on numerous occasions, HMRC, housing benefit, criminals and so on
- Over use of CCTV and speed cameras used as cash generators rather than safety tools
- Billions wasted on NHS computer system
- Record numbers of young people not in employment, education or training
- Nations credit rating downgraded, making our massive debts even more expensive
- "Positive" Discrimination
- FTSE returns down as they have for every single Labour government since the war
- Longest and deepest recession since the 1930s
- 9 out of 10 cars bought under the car scrappage made abroad
- An Illegal war and insufficient equipment for our soldiers
- National road pricing scheme plans and "pay as you drive", on top of existing fuel duties.
- Unaffordable housing and failure to meet house building targets leaving those under 30 struggling to find a home of their own
Not to forget the sound bites:
"No more boom and bust"
The biggest bust since the war, needs no further explanation.
"British jobs for British workers"
A hollow sound bite. Uncontrolled immigration taking up low paid unskilled work whilst the welfare system encourages people to stay on benefits. The prime minister is not legally allowed to give jobs to British workers.
"Education, Education, Education"
Record numbers of young not employed, in education or training. Spiralling student debt, top-up fees and low job prospects.
"Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"
Prisoners sentences cut short due to a lack of prison places. PCSO plastic police and police investigation little more than handing out a crime reference number for insurance purposes. The re-offending rate among young prisoners is close to 90%.
"Best placed internationally to weather the economic storm"
One of the first in and last out of the deepest recession since the war whilst increasing our debt significantly in the process.
It is, once again, up to the Tories to sort out the mess a Labour government have left behind and be tarred with the "nasty tories" brush just like they were in the 80s and 90s. People conveniently forget the mess Labour left this country in in the 1970s, rubbish uncollected, dead unburied and rolling blackouts. Every Labour government since the war has left the economy and unemployment in a worse position than when they took over.
“This Chancellor is leading the rest of the world in taking us out of recession.” "Best placed internationally to weather the economic storm" Yet we were one of the first in and last out of all the major economies and the economy shrank by the largest amount for 88 years.
Labour inherited a low debt and growing economy, yet failed to save or keep spending under control for the bad times, leaving the country exposed to the financial mess and hardship to come over the next few years. Whilst the economy was growing did the government save? no. Did the government lower taxes so we could save? no. Taxes have risen despite the "good times" leaving little room for increases to solve the deficit.
In 2009 Labour lambasted the Tories for the spending cuts, calling David Cameron "Mr 10%" and then backtracked with planned cuts deeper than the Conservatives, whilst not protecting the NHS like the Tories.
"No more boom and bust” was last cited by Gordon Brown in his March 2007 Budget. Six months later, Northern Rock collapsed.
And then we have the immigration policy, Labour have purposely left migration uncontrolled for social engineering and their own political means
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/7198329/Labours-secret-plan-to-lure-migrants.html
Quite why anyone could vote for Labour again with a clear conscience after what they have done the last few years is absolutely astounding.
