Remember in the run-up to the 1997 election, a huge “issue” was made by Bliar and his Labour cabal that the Tories would have to borrow £5 billion to fill the “black hole” that their spending plans would require. This was hammered as much as the fact that the Tories intended to “privatise” the NHS.
Remember what they said about no more “boom and bust”.
Now what did we end up with after the electorate believed and listened to Labour. More privatisation has taken place within the public services under Labour than any Tory Government and this includes the NHS with PFI.
The Tory £5 billion “black hole” pales into utter and total insignificance and irrelevance when compared with what Labour have landed us with. The dishonesty of the Labour position is compounded by their self belief that they have done nothing wrong with the economy, they refuse to accept that this country is now in dire trouble bordering on bankruptcy owing to their problems.
Whatever government takes over after the election, we are in for hard, hard times. If I had my way, Labour should be made to continue in office, they wrecked this country, make them stay in power until they mend it. Why should the Tories be blamed when they do what they have to do.

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So, here we are again Peter with the usual unsubstantiated generalisations, distortions and plain untruths and spin regarding the Labour created mess that we are in. Not one “fact” just a lot of meaningless mumbo jumbo, like “MASSIVE IMPROVEMENTS IN HEALTH AND EDUCATION”. Shall we see what your “IMPROVEMENTS” amount to:-
(a) A headlong fall in the world literacy table, the ranking was from 7th (which is bad enough) to 17th which I think puts us down some of the most previously backward countries in Europe.
(b) For maths our position in the world table is even worse, we are 24th. Look it up, see what countries are above us.
(c) The worst 3 x Rs standard for 11 year olds in recent history. Many 11 year olds are unable to even read and write.
(d) The CBI say that the standard of education of school leavers is such that they are incapable of performing the most basic tasks. Many Commercial firms are now having to recruit poorly educated youngsters and educate them themselves. TESCO have just set up their own “school” to educate even basic, low level job applicants.
Now the NHS, where do we start.
(e) Cancer treatment and survival rates, the worst in Europe and that includes the former, Eastern “peasant” states.
(f) Acquired infection rates, the worst in the developed world. We now have more people dying from hospital acquired infections than are killed on our roads.
(g) Complaints from patients and/or relatives at their highest since records began.
(h) Massive recorded discontent over the availablility of GPs for patient consultation. Notwithstanding massive pay rises for GPs, their productivity in terms of hours/patients have declined.
(i) 7 Million people without an NHS dentist.
(j) Hospital services closing or being relocated to the disadvantage of patients.
That should be enough “failure” points in education and the NHS, we won’t mention, the £3 billion cut that Balls has announced for Education meaning that Heads will lose jobs and numerous schools will be “grouped” under one Head. Neither will we mention the fact that hospitals, built under PFI Labour initiatives now have to pay the rent to their landlords out of the clinical budgets. Best example, The Royal Worcester Hospital, built by PFI has to pay £41 million a year for the next 35 years. The “rent of £41 million comes from the same budget as drugs, equipment, salaries etc etc etc etc. In fact hospitals lose the rent from the budget that allows them to operate as a hospital.
You have the audacity to mention Tory taxes, well, your Labourite gang told us that there would be no tax rises under them. So far we have had well over 100, indeed our business taxes have been raised from a very low position to one of the highest in Europe. I could go on and on and on and on and on but I won’t. I could even mention the wrecked pension schemes that Clown has presided over by his taking of almost £100 billion from scheme interest payments. I could mention the increases in child poverty but I won’t enlarge on it, they are small facts which the Labourites disregard as of no importance but which, to those affected by this damning indictment of this rotten Labour regime are of earth shattering proportions when Labour boasts that it is the party for the downtrodden, the oppressed, the disadvantaged and the poor. What an outrageous distortion of the truth, this is the party who did away with the 10pence tax band and immediately made the poorest paid in the country, pay an extra 10p in the pound tax.
Support what you say with facts, not the sort of drivel which we heard coming from the mouths of Marxist union leaders the last time Labour were in their death throes, and if you want a bigger condemnation of Brown’s solution to the mess he has caused, turn up The Governor of the Bank of England’s speech to the Scottish Banking Association as recently as last night, Clown must have thought he was sitting on a bed of hot coals. He was lambasted.
This talk from a man like that is good enough for me Peter, sorry, your’s is just so much pie in the sky. Please don’t provoke me to spell out a few more facts of what Clown has done to wreck our country.

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