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Default I'm Voting For Gordon - We need want Prosperity

All Labour have to do is tell the facts about their record, which is superb.
The Hurray Henry Tories shadow cabinet are all from the same few schools.

The best we have had is Blair/Brown. They took the country from a basket
case under the Tories into one of the world's strongest economies. The pound
was the world strongest currency for about 10 years. Constitutionally they
got rid of hereditary Lords. The average person has little idea of what this
means - it paves the way to Land Value Taxation and a more truer democracy.
Also the zero unemployment with over a million migrant workers to fuel the
booming economy.

Under Blair/Brown since 1997. Magnificent Facts.......

* The UK had the longest sustained economic growth in history.
* The UK economy has been the world's most robust.
* The pound has been almighty strong.
* 9/11 caused a recession in most of the western world. It never happened
here.
* Massive investment in schools and unis. More schools were built under them
than at any other time.
* Massive investment in health. More hospitals were built under them than at
any other time.
* Provincial cities have boomed with their skylines changing beyond belief.
* Some superb anti-social laws have been implemented. The parents are now
made responsible for their children's conduct.
* The country even absorbed over 1 million eastern Europeans and still not
have an unemployment problem.
* Hereditary peers abolished - the biggest constitutional change since the
1600s, removing a self-interst group of large land owners, paving the way
for Land Value Taxation.
* Provincial cities went on massive building programmes - look at the
skyscrapers in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham.
* Rail infrastructure is being greatly improved - electrification projects.
Tram schemes in many cities. High Speed Rail Networks are planned.
* etc.

The Tories have no intention of changing the current privileged ruling class
Eton/Harrow/Oxbridge system. They are just shuffling deckchairs on the
Titanic.

Look at the appalling Tory record:

* Cardboard cities - and they didn't care, blaming the victims
* Mass unemployment - Horrendous levels.
* Devastation of industry - One fifth of industry went under Thatcher and
Major.
* Devastation of economic growth creating infrastructure - It was
privatized. E.g., Thatcher said the railways and mines were losing money.
They were not as they were a part of the wealth creating process. She was so
dumb her and her party could not see that.
* Private Profit and Socialised Debts - Thatcher privatized the rail tracks
creating Railtrack and of course it went bust having to be replaced by a
Network Rail and non-profit organisation setup by Tony Blair. Small
investors were ripped off and taxpayer picking up the bill yet again.
privatized profits and socialized debts when they have creamed off and ran.
* North Sea Oil Wasted - A total wasting of the greatest legacy left to us -
North Sea Oil. The revenue from the oil was not invested into the country,
in education, training and industry, just used for dole money in failed
economic theories.
* Failed Economic Theories -Implementing the silly Thatcher neo-capitalism
that was bound to fail and did with the Credit Crunch.
* etc
* etc
* etc

Within months of Blair coming to power the cardboard cities were gone. Only
when the world-wide Credit Crunch came in from abroad did it stall. Brown
put together the world-wide rescue plan at the G20 meeting in London.

In these difficult economic times we need hard nosed experience to steer us
out with Brown having that. We do not need a bunch of Hurray Henry's all
from a few schools - like they have in banana republics.

 
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