to dread a Conservative govenment?

[tryingtobemarypoppins]

As a teacher and mother I feel I should dread Conservatives getting in.....

maternity benefits will be cut, flexible working rights will be cut, minimum wage scrapped or frozen ....

All I'm asking for is actual real examples, it's no good just saying "it will get worse", I want to know how, exactly, it will get worse.

What will they do to public services? Pay everyone less? Reduce the minimum wage?

how will they change the school system?

Sorry, I just want to know, I am not very clued up on politics.

I look forward to it.

I think ProfYaffle has answered your question FairLady

"Libras explain why you think it will be a good thing.... "

I didn't say it would be but you are the one who came on here and stated you dread the conservatives coming to power. I am just asking for your reasons.

Unfortunately,the sad reality is we will have to see cuts in public spending,regardless of who gets in.
TBH cannot see David Cameron with his experience of the NHS with regard to his son cutting services that much.

Is this all for definate or just going on what they did last time?

www.towerhamletslabour.org.uk/a1c1ce9b-1488-7bb4-a528-14436f084ba3

this is very interesting

explain hf128219

The civil service will be slashed in size and much will be privatised = unemployment.

Tax credits are to be abolished, I believe

indeed she did...

but do we know this for sure....
as you can see I am a complete Politics numpty...clueless...

Perfect! Thanks for the link. Why can't this bbe highlighted more often!

1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s
2. Low mortgage rates
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.35
4. Record police numbers in England, Scotland 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 by 2008
9. Employment is at its highest level ever

10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries 11. 85,000 more nurses 12. 32,000 more doctors 13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards 14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament 15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly 16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time 17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice 18. Gift aid was worth £625 million to charities last year 19. Restored city-wide government to London 20. Record number of students in higher education 21. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997 22. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households 23. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission 24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s 25. On course to exceed Kyoto target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2010 26. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland 27. Over 30,000 more teachers in England schools 28. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks? paid holiday 29. A million pensioners lifted out of relative poverty 30. 800,000 children lifted out of relative poverty 31. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents 32. Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships 33. Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard 34. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales 35. Banned fox hunting 36. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution 37. Free TV licences for over-75s 38. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals 39. Waiting times for operations halved 40. Free local bus travel for over-60s 41. New Deal - helped over a million people into work 42. Over 1.5 million child trust funds have been started 43. Free eye test for over 60s 44. Five, six and seven year olds in class sizes of 30 or less 45. Free entry to national museums and galleries 46. Overseas aid budget more than doubled 47. Cancer death rates down by 12 per cent, saving 43,000 lives 48. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent 49. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales 50. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school

800,000 children lifted out of relative poverty

would this have happened under the conservatives??

i doubt it

they dont care about poor people!!

(i know i sound childish!)

I'll be pleased if they do.I know I'm in the minority on MN,but not everyone was over the moon when Labour won in 97.I can still remember the strikes,3 day weeks ect,and threats to nationalize the land.No way would I vote for them.
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Quite honestly ,i cant see that they would do a much worse job than labour have done already .Obviousley they would meddle in health and education as every new goverment has to when it first gains power . As for pensions ,i dont know about teachers pensions ,but in the health service changes have been taking place for some time now and continue to do so ,making a NHS pension worth far less than it was a few years ago . Its not like theres very much left to privatise is it ,oh except maybe schools and hospitals ,but oh yes the labout goverment are already going down that route already i believe . Mind you anyone who calls the current goverment 'labour' with a straight face needs their head examining

hf128219 shouldn't have to explain if you don't tryingtobemarypoppins, cutting and pasting just shows that you did't know why you are dreading Labour coming in you are just parroting what you think you should.

Thanks for being honest Furious but what do you know they will do to improve the country - convince me!

I have real concerns about what the conservatives would do with tax credits, without which my family would be screwed!

have they said they would abolish tax credits (have read lots of posts saying they will) all i can find is that they will make if fairer for married couples?

ive never understood why we cant just have different parties responsible for different issues.

like the green party could be in charge of the environment.

the tories in charge of schools

and labour in charge of employment

If you can provide me with hard evidence to back up those 50 , tryingtobe ,and i was abale to deduce from that evidence that you were infact correct then maybe i would be happier to vote new labour ,as it is ,they simply stand as 50 statements .

librasbiscuitsoffortune what an unfortunate misunderstanding.

I cut and pasted the top 50 achievements of this govenment as people (like yourself it appears) seem to forget this. I am dreading a conservative govenment as I only have bad memories (as I have already said) of them and am asking if anyone can highlight any good points about the conservatives to worry me less.

I agree with PutDown - we are in a huge amount of debt as a country and taxes will rise for everyone and spending have to be cut. Its not going to be a great decade ahead in the UK, whoever gets in. On this basis, YANBU.

For people in the lowest incomes, they will of course notice the public spending cuts the most as most reliant on them, and of course even slightly lower benefits or minimum wage will have a huge effect on these people. But ultimately all of us will be worse off, and this won't be the Conservatives fault imo, they aren't the ones who have got us into this frankly embarrassing level of debt.

I look forward to the Conservatives getting in and scrapping the ID card plan (which will be a colossal waste of money), but am hoping they scrap raising the inheritance tax threshold, that is a stupid plan when the country is so poor.

bumpsoon as a teacher I feel education is sooooooooooo much better than ever before. Schools have much better resources, are more inclusive etc etc. Nursery places speak for themselves, as does school fruit and sure start centres.