Vote Conservative - what can they offer the voter?

[John1954 10]

Labour's utter mismanagement of the Northern Rock crisis is reason enough for me not to vote for them. When decisive action was most needed, Brown dithered and bet £50bn of our money on everything turning out OK in the end. Madness.

 

The thing Brown has received most praise for was allowing the Bank of England to set interest rates - i.e. palming off the responsibility for one of the biggest decisions because he couldn't be trusted with it. The sooner this lot are out the better.

How would you have handled the Northern Rock crisis? You have two choices - support it through the Bank of England or let it go bust.

[John1954 10]

But they're planning to add another 2p duty to it in April.

The last time oil prices rose rapidly Labour suspended its planned duty increase but if it doesn't 2p a litre is only a 2% increase, less than inflation.

[Keith Rich 10]

Labour does not control the price of oil.

Nor train or bus fares. These are private companies and nothing to do with the government.

 

Keith

[ken1 10]

I liked the proposal of community work to qualify for Job Seeker's Allowance.

 

It amused me to watch terrified, workshy morons being interviewed on TV, making comments like "if I don't like the job why should I just accept it". Well, I don't particularly like getting up before 7am every morning to help you pick and choose either, but if we all thought like that, there'd be no JSA for you or anyone else matey!

 

It's one of the biggest social injustices that there are able bodied people out there who are decades into adulthood and have never done a day's work in their lives and live off the hard work of everyone else. If someone can't get a job after 2 years, their JSA should be stopped anyway, because the jobs are there, they're just too lazy to do them, as the Poles who lap them all up instead will testify.

 

what happens to the people who do those jobs now? they end up on jsa, doing the same work for less than £60 a week?

 

why not just bring back slavery & have done with it.

[Keith Rich 10]

Im still iffy about the Conseratives , Yes we would be in better hands on some subjects but they buggered up the Railways , Buses and Coal Mining areas as well

 

Not to mention there being record levels of crime, unemployment, poverty, social deprivation, strikes, riots, social disorder, sleaze, and the constant threat of IRA bombs because in their 18 years in power the Tories were unable to offer any solution to this. Tony Blair sorted out the problem within two years of becoming PM and in so doing has saved thousands of lives that would have been lost if left to the Tories.

 

Keith

[alchresearch 215]

And of course, all this has gone under the Utopian society of NooLabour!

[DynoDon 10]

Not to mention there being record levels of crime, unemployment, poverty, social deprivation, strikes, riots, social disorder, sleaze, and the constant threat of IRA bombs because in their 18 years in power the Tories were unable to offer any solution to this. Tony Blair sorted out the problem within two years of becoming PM and in so doing has saved thousands of lives that would have been lost if left to the Tories.

 

Keith

 

Unfortunately social deprivation and poverty is very much worse under Labour than under the last Tory government.

 

The number of families living in extreme poverty has increased since Labour made its pledge to halve child poverty.

 

1.8 million households were living on less than 40% of the median average national income in 2005/06 - 400,000 more than the 1.4 million recorded in 1998/99 - according to statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions this month.

 

Seperately last year the Institute for Fiscal Studies also found poverty had risen compared to 1997.

 

Indeed health inequality has also got worse since 1997, a government report found earlier this month.

 

Your other claims are mostly based on the eighties. As you well know the last Conservative government 1992-1997 was turning everything around anyway consistently month after month.

 

The Major years also doesn't compare to Labour's record on sleaze... which has been far worse as the sleaze has been right at the heart of government rather than having affairs in private lives.

[slimsid2000 10]

I vote Conservative.

[Sibylla 10]

The Tories are the party of the rich. No one prospers under the Tories except the richest 10 per cent. Don't be fooled by what they say.

I will be voting Labour as they are the best option, but vote for whoever you want...but under no circumstanes vote for the Tories. They will be a disaster for ordinary people.

Keith

The rich have prospered enormously under labour over recent years - those who have suffered have been the middle classes whose taxes have become crippling,m to pay for Labour's predictably typical and frivolous public spending.

The people who would be rescued by a conservative government are the middle earners - the people upon whom our economy relies the most.

[StarSparkle 10]

Not to mention there being record levels of crime, unemployment, poverty, social deprivation, strikes, riots, social disorder, sleaze, and the constant threat of IRA bombs because in their 18 years in power the Tories were unable to offer any solution to this. Tony Blair sorted out the problem within two years of becoming PM and in so doing has saved thousands of lives that would have been lost if left to the Tories.

 

Keith

 

Is there a doctor in the house? I believe your services are required urgently...

 

StarSparkle

[DynoDon 10]

Tipping point has been breached it seems. Another poll puts the Tories 13 points clear, this time YouGov.

 

This nation is crying out for a real centre-right party to fit a vast majority centre-right nation to pull the country up by the boot straps. It's not so much what Labour has done wrong, anyone can bring about a small improvement in a very small limited array of things by borrowing in a time of plenty.

 

It's Labour's true legacy... heavy debt and plunder of resources which is going to be a struggle for years to sort out.

[convert 10]

Tipping point has been breached it seems. Another poll puts the Tories 13 points clear, this time YouGov.

 

This nation is crying out for a real centre-right party to fit a vast majority centre-right nation to pull the country up by the boot straps. It's not so much what Labour has done wrong, anyone can bring about a small improvement in a very small limited array of things by borrowing in a time of plenty.

 

It's Labour's true legacy... heavy debt and plunder of resources which is going to be a struggle for years to sort out.

 

When you say 'Plunder of resources', do you count North Sea Oil; and the large stock of social housing that Maggie sold off to buy an extra term?