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Mrs Dale points out that a page on the ZNL website that used to shout about the 50 great things ZNL have done since becoming “elected” in 1997 has suddenly vanished.
New Labour
Luckily Google cache still has it.
Here are the contents:
1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.Highest rises on record2. Low mortgage rates. Lie. Mortgage rates are high.3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52. Trapping millions on benefits4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales. Sitting eating doughnuts whilst watching CCTV5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent. Prisons full, Jaqui Smith scared to go and get a kebab6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools. 1 in 5 children cannot read and write when they leave school7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18. Have a GSCE A*. Plenty to go round for everyone8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled. OUR money wasted9. Employment is at its highest level ever. Unemployment, including incapacity benefit has never been higher10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries. No you didn't.11. 85,000 more nurses. - record numbers of nurses unemployed12. 32,000 more doctors - record number of doctors unemployed and £100K for the rest. OUR money remember13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards. - Liars14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament. - They get to vote in England though15. Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly. - ditto16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time. - those who still have jobs17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.- not FREE. WE pay for the NHS18. Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.-Again, OUR money you gave away to Lee Jasper and his ilk19. Restored city-wide government to London - and now you hate it with Boris20. Record number of students in higher education.- learning Wayne Rooney studies and Classic Hisory of Girls Aloud21. Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997. - Hence the swams of feral chavs belching Stella in taxpayers faces22. Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.- With OUR money23. Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.-allowing convcted Terrorists to live on benefits instead of being deported24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s. - 40% price rises in gas and electricity25. On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.- using OUR money to subsidise Renewable Power company profits26. Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland. and bribing them £2B for 42 day vote27. Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.- doing the worst job in history of educating our children28. All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday - most will be working overtime instead29. A million pensioners lifted out of poverty. and dumped straight back in it again30. 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty. and 2 million dumped in it again31. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.giving MY money to parents, you mean32. Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships. -no comment33. Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard. - 42" Plasmas all round34. Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997. - one in 300 chance of dying of MRSA instead. Filthiest hospitals in Europe35. Banned fox hunting. - Good36. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.- Largest fines for water companies contaminating it again37. Free TV licences for over-75s. to watch celebrity pig wanking or Crimewatch38. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals. - yet bomb children in Iraq39. Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70. Not FREE. OUR money40. Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s. Not FREE. OUR money41. New Deal - helped over 1.8 million people into work. and straight back out again42. Over 3 million child trust funds have been started. - WITH OUR MONEY43. Free eye test for over 60s. to read their council tax bills with44. More than doubled the number of apprenticeships. in call centre management or community cohesion studies, not engineering45. Free entry to national museums and galleries. to while away the hours of unemployment46. Overseas aid budget more than doubled. -whilst poverty reigns in the uk47. Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000. - in spite of you not giving people the drugs they need and have paid for over a lifetime48. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent. -replaced with incapacity benefit and prison49. Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.-Allowing their mothers more time at the gym and nail studio50. Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school. -Monkey see, monkey do.
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