The Labour Party

The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Last time they were in government they did these things, which suggests they‘re not ‘all the same’.

HEALTH
Reduced NHS waiting times by 82%
85,000 more nurses
Free eye tests and bus travel for over 60s
Heart disease deaths down 150,000
Cancer deaths down 50,000
Free breast screening for 50-70 year-olds
In-patient waiting lists down half a million
Created NHS Direct
Smoking ban

POVERTY
600,000 children lifted out of poverty
1 million pensioners lifted out of poverty
26% increase in child benefit
Introduced winter fuel payments
Made improvements to 1 million social homes
Introduced child Tax Credits
Created 3 million child trust funds

EMPLOYMENT
Introduced the first minimum wage
Created 1.8 million new jobs
Cut long term unemployment by 75%
Doubled the number of apprenticeships
Introduced the right to 24 days holiday
Introduced 2 weeks paternity leave

EDUCATION
Doubled education funding for every pupil
36,000 additional teachers
Added 274,000 teaching assistants
2,200 Sure Start centres
Record literacy
Record numeracy
Free nursery places
Free fruit for 4-6 year-olds

SOCIAL / CULTURAL
Scrapped Section 28
Introduced Civil Partnerships
Banned fox hunting
Free TV licenses to over 75s
Free entry to museums and art galleries

SECURITY
Peace in Ireland (building on John Major's work, but still, completed by Labour)
Added 14,000 extra police
Cut crime by 35%
Increased criminal justice (court) spending by 21%

ECONOMY
Longest period of low inflation growth since 1960
Created an independent Bank of England
Wrote off debt for dozens of poor nations
Doubled overseas aid (a better life at home reduces the incentive to migrate to the UK)
Created GiftAid

All points above were first raised on Russ Jones’ #TheWeekInTory
https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire

Now, I appreciate that not everyone thinks they were radical enough, and that may well be the case but, given that this time next year we will have had the Tories in power for the same length of time, can anyone find anything they’ve done to make peoples lives any better?
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But other than that, what good did Labour ever do in power?
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
Good work, mate. It’s not what some will want to hear but it should be taken into account and balanced appropriately.

The Conservatives, and I apply this to all in this case, have completely undermined this country and it’s standing around the world. Every country can see right through us and allowed the capitalists, who give nothing back, and the likes of Putin to infiltrate our systems. We were rife for it and we allowed it to happen.

It’s difficult telling the kids what they are in for and another couple of years with this governments posture will just make their lives worse.
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Oh please
 
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