Today in Birmingham, as well as the monthly meeting of the Council, we also had the regional launch of the Conservative Manifesto for the General Election.
Any accusations that we're light on policy were firmly put to bed today, if they were ever true in the first place. Among the tons of policies in the manifesto, here are a few corkers:
1. We will reverse Labour's unnecessary and damaging National Insurance increase.
2. We will implement an emergency Budget within 50 days to get rid of most of Labour's budget deficit - the largest racked up by any government in peacetime.
3. We will give parents the opportunity to take over and run schools themselves. Not an 'abdication of responsibility', which is what Labour's Parliamentary Candidate thinks, but a policy to give power and control back to ordinary people, which has to be better than Labour's centralised state targets.
4. We will allow everyone to choose any healthcare provider they want that meets NHS standards and prices.
5. We will get rid of mixed-sex wards, unlike Labour who pretended to.
6. We will give Birmingham City Council the right to shut places that sell alcohol to underage teenagers.
7. We will implement a points system and a ceiling on non-EU economic migrants to the UK. Labour's policy has no ceiling.
8. We will cut the number of MPs by 10%. (Yes, the Tories do cut some things!)
9. We will reintroduce the link between earnings and the basic state pension.
10. We will start building the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham immediately.
And here's one that might have passed you by - we will substantially reduce the amount of government advertising and use the money saved to keep your Council Tax down. Has anyone else noticed the sheer number of government adverts at the moment? I was listening to the radio the other day and virtually every advert in every break was a government one of one form or another.
So there you have it. Vote for change - vote Conservative.
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