Labour's Top 50 Achievements

[fox20thc]

Here are the first ten listed by the Labour Party.

 

1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.

 

2. Low mortgage rates.

 

3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.

 

4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.

 

5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.

 

6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.

 

7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.

 

8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.

 

9. Employment is at its highest level ever.

 

10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.

 

http://www.labour.org.uk/top_50_achievements

 

So having perused this list does anyone have any comments to make or points to raise?

[Stormy]

I think the timing of this release says more than anything in it.

Any government can make a list of 50 top achivements by manipulating a few figures and wheeling out the odd statistic, and also you'd like to think that in nearly 11 years in power they have achived something aside from higher taxes, lost data, illegal wars, dubious funding activities etc

[Mercenary]

Here are the first ten listed by the Labour Party.

 

1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.

 

2. Low mortgage rates.

 

3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.

 

4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.

 

5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.

 

6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.

 

7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.

 

8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.

 

9. Employment is at its highest level ever.

 

10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.

 

http://www.labour.org.uk/top_50_achievements

 

So having perused this list does anyone have any comments to make or points to raise?

 

1. This is more to do with over riding economic conditions in the global market rather than through any political means

 

2. See number 1

 

3. I agree this was a good move

 

4. Still not enough

 

5. The fear of crime is up- under 16s who do not go on the statistics due to being minors can skew the figures

 

6. But have the levels of testing remained the same for 10 years?

 

7. See number 6

 

8. A good start

 

9. See number 1

 

10. Very moral but still too many problems in this country

[Jay69]

I think the only thing that labour have achived is in making them selfs look like complete fools evey pm is taking a bung or paying family members for doing nothing ! I think they should make a list of the things that they have'nt achived yet in which case we would be here till 2080 reading them and as for the 32% drop in crime is a joke because some people dont report the crime cos the police dont turn up till a few hours or days later so it goes unreported .

[Minesadouble]

Don't forget the Fox Hunting Ban.......Although that's a crock ...cos they are still doing them !!!!!!

[andyloxley]

Alternatively they could have put out this list

 

1. Most Iraqi's have not been killed *

 

2. Crime down 94% **

 

3. Low mortgage rates! Please contact us for details! ***

 

4. Introduced the National Minimum Wage (then got round it by inviting our Polish friends to come at work as "self employed contractors" at a fraction of this)

 

5. Over 80% of teenagers leave school able to read their own criminal record

 

6. 35,000 Community Pretend Police Officers watching children drown

 

7. Record poppy crop in Afghanistan

 

8. Strict fundamentalist islam introduced to most areas of Iraq.

 

9. Democratic participation at record high. #

 

10. Richard Branson 20% more beardy and 38% more toothy

 

* As of time of publication

** Reduction shown is for crime involving spoons. A trebling of sadistic murder, random stabbings and electrician shootings is not included in the overall crime figure, just spoons.

*** New Labour is a trading style of Northern Rock Plc. Your home maybe at risk if we have to bail out any more big banks and run out of readies.

# In reality TV shows

[Don_Kiddick]

And smokers.

 

They demonised smokers!

 

At last! Mwuhahahahhaaaaa!!

[discodown]

This government is appalling. They are basically the closest thing to despotism and communism there is. We have an unelected leader spending our money and taxing us until we can't be taxed anymore and the key things which people are concerned about appear to be getting worse. I wouldn't trust this government to run a market stall.

 

That said theres no real competition because politics today isn't about running the country its about winning votes and trying to appeal to everyone. Thats why the BNP will make frighteningly large gains the next election because all their faults aside they do seem to have a plan and they do seem to know what they want to do and for some people thats enough to vote them in

[MrH]

Highest number of CCTV cameras per head of population that any other country in the world?

 

Highest number of "CCTV on TV" shows in the Western World? (See Police, Camera, Action and all related spin offs on BBC1, ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, etc)

[Wildcat]

The list includes some useful reforms. But just off the top of my head a few problems as a counterbalance:

 

1. Engaging in an illegal war of aggression on fabricated evidence that has increased extremism.
   
2. Increasing the nuclear arsenal and Nuclear power.
   
3. Arms deals to corrupt regimes.
   
4. The ideology of privatisation. Air traffic control, undermining the Royal Mail, council housing etc. PFI/PPP intiatives including Academy Schools.
   
5. European Union
   
6. Blocking equal rights for agency and fixed term workers in europe (despite promises they would promote this)
   
7. ID Cards
   
8. Reforms to legal aid making it difficult for the poor to get justice
   
9. The widening poverty gap
   
10. And last but not least using my salary and those of other public sector workers as a counter inflationary measure.