Please list all the GOOD things the labour government have done ...

[spacedonkey]

i thank you

WTC and CTC- I was on family credit before WTC and CTC came in, and I was getting such a poor amount of money, even when it changed to WFTC, it was crap and then when it was changed to CTC and WFTC I was happy as it made my families life easier.
Pension credit- my dad is happy!!

Uh well this is the run up to the election. Do you expect the Labour party to stand by and say nothing while the Tory party lure voters with all their marvellous 'promises' to the country's wide-eyed Daily Mail readers...

but MP - violent crime (which is what most people are most worried about) is UP

Literacy and Numeracy is 'up' in many countries in the world - that's what happens when more people go to school - we've had a literacy rate in the very high 90's since I was at school!

Funding is to rise (supposedly) BUT along with that headteachers are being given more responsibilites which will cost MORE than they're been given

Record numbers of students in higher education - and how exactly does that help people? Why not have more 'apprenticeship' type things - if DS1 wants to be a mechanic a degree isn't going to get him very far. And so many graudates are leaving 'unveristy' with degrees that are consdiered almost 'worthless' by many employers!

oh and of course lets not forget that when Trust Funds were announced the governemtn would already have had a 'pretty' decent idea of when the election would be (ie 2005) and by planning it to start now it's more electioneerin.

I think things like violent crime are just a tad more complicated than a cause and effect based on who is in power.

Blimey MP, where did you get all that from? Have you just been into their web site? (Or do you carry this around in your head?!)

Hey guys that's still 45 things left...

I wish the Tories would be honest with their "Are you thinking what we're thinking?" poster campaign. We know what they really think. Eugh.

Hehe it's on the labour party website...

It's a very bad campaign isn't it, because my instant gut response is "bloody hell, I really hope not!"

Caligula:

its not just fox hunting tho is it - foot and mouth and CAP!

Bu tthey ARE still letting farmers reap MASSIVE subsidies and get nice lovely fat PAYOFFS for the Foot and Mouth crisis. I think the main problem on farms these days is how to build enough barns to keep all their CASH in...

oh dear MP if only farmers were really having it that easy!!

well maybe I exaggerate a bit...

don't say that to a farmer with a pitchfork in his hand

All due respect to farmers, I have the Official Naked Farmers calendar on my kitchen wall...

you like beef then?

Oooh yes

and a nice thick slab of westcountry sausage

you do realise that by all these posts it might look as if the Labour Government are truly wonderful?

perish the thought - pass us a sausage!

No, they're crap, but they're a tiny tiny tiny bit less crap than the other lot!

Might it not just be that they are flawed, horribly disappointing, and laughable in some cases, but still better than the Tories?

Oh and why object to a bit of electioneering - it's the one time when they have to look to their core vote of working class people, public sector workers and the poor. That's why democracy is a good system - it forces governments to court our votes.

But let's face it OM, what crap aspirations - to be better than the Tories!

Practically anyone could manage that!

Except perhaps, Robert Kilroy Silk...

but there's no point in courting our votes for a short period every 5yrs and then completely ignoring us for the rest of the time! Most people don't fall for it! (I hope!)