A big thank you to the person who did all the research Ive copied this and cant remember your name! Thank you very much indeed! FIFTY ONE REASONS: WHY NOT TO VOTE FOR THE LABOUR PARTY 1) Up to 50 thousand excess deaths were recorded at hospitals during the last Labour Government. (Research by Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College). 2) The Bedroom Tax was part of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 proposed by Labour. 3) Between 1997 to 2010 gas prices rose 133% and electricity prices rose 69%. Why would the public ever trust Labour on energy prices again? 4) The devastating impact of Labours raid on pensions: The tax grab has cost workers £118bn since 1997. (Office for Budget Responsibility). 5) Labour spent £148.7 million on a National Measurements Office which forces traders to measure their goods in kilograms rather than pounds. 6) The Royal Mail is now sold because of EU Postal Directive 2008/6/EC, brought in by the last Labour government. 7) Council Tax doubled under Labour - 105% increase in England, 146% Wales. (The Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy: 26/03/09). 8) In 2012/13 Labour councils employed nearly 23,000 people on zero-hour contracts. 9) £660 million has been cut from Labour run NHS Wales over the last three years according to the Welsh TUC. 10) When Labour came to power in 1997, spending on NHS managers was less than £190m. By 2010 this had increased by 450% to over £1bn per year. 11) Labour wasted £11bn of taxpayer’s money on a failed IT project which was eventually scrapped by the NHS in 2013. 12) Labour lumbered the NHS with vast PFI repayments - £50 billion worth of loans which are costing £300 billion in repayments. 13) It was the Labour Party who awarded the DWP Medical Services Contract to ATOS on the 15th March 2005. 14) Labour started the privatisation of the NHS. They brought in the 2006 NHS Act that introduced competition into the NHS. 15) Labour introduced competition into the NHS: Competition Act 1998, Enterprise Act 2002 & Public Sector Procurement Regulations 2006. 16) In 2006 Gordon Brown cut the flood defence budget by £14 million. 17) Youth unemployment rose by more than 40% during Labours 13 years in office. 18) Total stock of social housing fell under Labour - 421,000 homes were lost from the social housing stock between 1997 and 2010. 19) British manufacturing grew by 28% between 1980 and 1997. Then, under Labour, it shrank by 6%: falling from 20% of GDP to just 11%. 20) Labour left a deficit of £156 billion, PFI liability of £301 billion, EU Rebate loss £9.3 billion, Sold the Gold loss £6 billion. 21) The last Labour government spent so much money on Labour cronies that it had a 5% structural deficit at the height of the boom. 22) The use of food banks went up tenfold under Labour. From 3,000 users in 2005/06 to over 40,000 by 2009/10. (The Trussell Trust/C4 Fact Check). 23) When Labours Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, UK public debt was 44.1% of GDP. When he left in 2010, it was 148.1%. 24) Only 6,330 council houses were completed from 1998 to 2010 under Labour, compared with 17,710 in 1990 alone - Thatchers final year as PM. 25) Tony Blair gave away a chunk of the UKs EU rebate estimated now to have cost the UK £9.3 billion between 2007-2013. 26) In 2010 Gordon Brown branded Rochdale voter Gillian Duffy a bigoted woman for daring to voice her concern about uncontrolled immigration. 27) Labour are now complaining about gambling. But they were the ones who wanted to build Super Casinos in some of the poorest areas in Britain. 28) Labour closed more mines in 5 years than Thatcher did in 11 years.. 211 mines closed under Wilson 1965-70.. 154 under Thatcher 1979-90. 29) Under Labour zero hour contracts increased by 74% between 2004 - 2009. 30) Since Labour liberalised the law in 2000 to allow postal voting on demand, the number of postal voting fraud in Labour areas has soared. 31) Labour wants to charge patients. Lord Warner said people should pay a £10-a-month fee to use NHS/£20 for every night they stay in hospital. 32) Labour signed the Lisbon Treaty which gave away powers to the EU and reduced UK sovereignty and the power of our Westminster Parliament. 33) Labour were responsible for the rise in payday lenders. Now they are campaigning against them. 34) Labour presided over the slowest growth in 50 years and produced the fastest decline in British manufacturing since manufacturing began. 35) Labour destroyed our border controls then with the help of the BBC denounced anybody who voiced concerns about mass immigration as racists. 36) Labour councils are the biggest users of zero contracts. 37) Under Labour between 1997 to 2010 the gap between rich and poor got wider. 38) The last Labour government doubled the rate of income tax on the lowest paid. 39) Labour claims to be the party of the working man, but they have absolutely destroyed the working class through mass immigration. 40) Labour MPs to remember: Denis MacShane (jailed), David Chaytor (jailed), Eric Illsley (jailed), Elliot Morley (jailed), Jim Devine (jailed). 41) Blair invaded Iraq and Brown invaded the Treasury, both actions crippled us. 42) Labour opposes democracy in Britain by denying the British people a referendum on EU membership. 43) Labour Party Manifesto Pledge 2001: We will not introduce top-up fees. 44) One of the reasons for high energy prices is EU driven Green Taxes brought in by the last Labour government. 45) It was Labour under Blair who handed control of British food regulation to the EU, (Regulation EC no 178/2002). 46) Remember when Tony Blair and Labour essentially traded guns for access to oil with Libya. With Tony Blair using Ghaddafis jet 47) The Labour Party paid only £14,000 in tax last year on total income of £33.3 million. (The Spectator, 30/07/2014). 48) If Ed Miliband can easily stab his own brother in the back, imagine what he will do to us if he ever becomes Prime Minister. 49) Tony Blair lied to and dragged the UK, against the will of the Scottish people, into an illegal war. The results of that still reverberating today with hundreds of thousands of people being killed. Children and women being tortured and raped and over 600,000 people having had to flee their homes. Hes now a Billionaire earning £150,000 an HOUR giving speeches whilst millions are living in abject misery. 50) Tony Blair and Donald Dewar sold off, behind the Scots backs, 6000 sq miles of Scottish Seas which included 7 oil fields the night before we got our Scottish Parliament in 1999. 51) MANY Labour Party Politicians rank HIGHEST, EVERY year, on the list of UK Politicians Expense Claims such as Anas Sarwar claimed £206,000 last year and Jim Murphy claimed £196,000. Daily Record, Why not a Campaign to help the 1 in 5 Children and working families living in poverty? THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ON DEMOCRACY FORCED UK GOVERNMENT INTO DEVOLUTION NOT BECAUSE WESTMINSTER OR LABOUR WANTED TO!
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 01:18:49 +0000
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