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[Alf W]

16. Banned anti-personnel mines

I didn't realise the Tories had been using them.

[The Lone Gunman]

By devolution I take it you mean the wonderful system where Scottish MSPs get to vote on things which affect everyone except them, while the Westminster parliament can just whistle in the wind when it comes to having a say in what they do.

I notice the Scots dont want to be so devolved that they actualy have to fund their own country. They can afford free care for pensioners because the English are paying for it.

[eternalnomad]

Lets see what NuLiebour think are their top achievements

http://www.labour.org.uk/top50achievements

Our top 50 achievements since being elected in 1997:

1. Lowest inflation since the 60s
2. Low interest rates
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
5. Cut overall crime by 35 per cent
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
7. Best-ever primary school results
8. Funding for every pupil in England to double (since 1997) by 2007-08
9. Lowest unemployment for 29 years
10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries
11. 78,700 more nurses
12. 27,400 more doctors
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
16. Banned anti-personnel mines
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice at any time
18. New Deal - helped over a million people into work
19. Local government funding has increased by a third in real terms
20. Equalised the age of consent for gay men
21. Free entry to all national museums and galleries
22. Overseas aid budget more than doubled
23. Restored city-wide government to London
24. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997
25. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
26. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
27. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
28. The biggest rolling stock replacement programme ever seen on our railways
29. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
30. Over 30,000 more teachers in England schools
31. Implemented the Freedom of Information Act
32. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
33. Record rises in the state pension
34. 700,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
35. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
36. Banned handguns
37. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
38. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
39. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
40. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
41. Record police numbers in Scotland
42. Implemented the Human Rights Act
43. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
44. Free TV licences for over-75s
45. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
46. Halved maximum waiting times for NHS operations
47. Free local bus travel for over-60s
48. Record number of students in higher education
49. Extended the Race Relations Act so that all public bodies and functions now have a duty to promote race equality
50. Five, six and seven-year-olds in class sizes of 30 or less

[Joe Black]

on second thoughts... they've done f**k all apart from the BofE reform, minimum wage and devolution. All things they did in their first year! Since then nothing

By devolution I take it you mean the wonderful system where Scottish MSPs get to vote on things which affect everyone except them, while the Westminster parliament can just whistle in the wind when it comes to having a say in what they do.

[Churchill]

They banned fox hunting

Yes, I've noticed an increase in the number of fox remains on the road.

[wendigo100]

They banned fox hunting

Nope, it's ironic that the only time they have done anything good is also the only time they have taken their sleazy, incompetent and mendacious hands off something!

[Alf W]

They banned fox hunting

[Hart-floot]

Is this about to develop into a "what has labour achieved" thread?

How about...

Reformed House of Lords
Reformed Pension Provision
Reformed the NHS
Improved Education standards in this country
Devolved powers to the English


on second thoughts... they've done f**k all apart from the BofE reform, minimum wage and devolution. All things they did in their first year! Since then nothing

[Emperor Dalek]

Is this about to develop into a "what has labour achieved" thread?

I hope not, it would cut a promising thread short.

[Gold Dalek]

Is this about to develop into a "what has labour achieved" thread?

[Joe Black]

black wednesday

The reason "Tory sleaze" was a bigger deal was because the country was in a state of depression (economically and emotionally) after black wednesday and was ready to latch on to any reason to villify the government.

And unfortunately by the time the economy was in a full upswing, which they could probably claim credit for, it was too late and NL was voted in.

Their one (and only) achievement since then...making the BOE independent, way, way back in 1997 a few days after being elected.

[Gold Dalek]

Our local incinerator company went bust...

Poor business practice... the way is to get the thing built with minimum of fuss... then open it up to high value burn - surgical disposals, trade & toxic waste etc.- should be a licence to print money

[AlfredJPruffock]

Do you think if he had it with Edwina and his wife at the same time it would be more acceptable since he would have consent of this wife?

If John Major had the nonce to have converted to Islam then most certainly, he was a good sport,however as Alf Ker Ching observed ...

10 Downing Street .... is no place for a Gentleman.

[threaded]

Unless of course he was sleeping with a senior Exec........

Isn't that the same thing?

[Mustang]

Actually Labour built the tip (incinerator actually) near my house... and overrode the local planning procedure courtesy of "I'm minded to allow this" Tubby Prescott (stab stabbity stab). No doubt the incinerator company was a contributor to Labour funds

Unless of course he was sleeping with a senior Exec........