Below is a list of 50 Labour party achievements, the list used to be on the Labour party website, but has been deleted: there’s still links within the Labour party website to the article titled Labour’s top 50 achievements since being elected in 1997.
My best guess for the article being removed is because of the credit crunch and global recessions, some of the items in the list are no longer applicable! From a public relations perspective might have been a better idea to edit the list to make it accurate, rather than delete it. Still, I think the 50 Labour party achievements list is worthy of debate, it’s not the Labour parties fault per se for the global downturn.
Looking through the list quickly I see items that don’t sound right (and I’m a Labour voter), for example crime down 32% and record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools JUMP out at me, what planet are we talking about here?
Labour Party top 50 achievements since being elected in 1997
1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
2. Low mortgage rates.
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
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 the 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 £828 million to charities last year.
19. Restored city-wide government to London.
20. Record number of students in higher education.
21. Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
22. Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
23. Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
25. On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
26. Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
27. Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
28. All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
29. A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
30. 600,000 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. Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
35. Banned fox hunting.
36. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
37. Free TV licences for over-75s.
38. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
39. Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
40. Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
41. New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
42. Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
43. Free eye test for over 60s.
44. More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
45. Free entry to national museums and galleries.
46. Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
47. Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
48. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
49. Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
50. Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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LOL they missed that achievement from the list :-o
David
Peace in Ireland?
I got half way through that list and realized that I was obviously reading a propaganda pamphlet full of untruths and omissions.
I’m just going to point out that it was John Major that initiated the talks with Ireland,
If I had the time and inclination I could refute much of your claims but lets just say that Labours so called achievements left this country with a record breaking deficit which in trying to repair again! You will no doubt be blaming the gvt who were given the inheritance nobody would wish for.
Blair did one good thing and that was to leave the industrial legislation well alone , unfortunately for Labour that left you with the wrong Millieband and the other Blairites under attack by your next leader McLusky.
Brown at least has the humility to stay away from Westminster.
Labour achievements
Full of untruths my foot. John Major may have initiated the talks with NORTHERN IRELAND (there’s a difference between NI and Ireland but you Tories are too ignorant to know that) but it was Blair who achieved relative peace. And I say that as a man who didn’t like some of what Blair and Brown did. Why does the deficit (if it really is as bad as Tories claim) need to be brought down at the expense of poor people?
Labour already had arrangements in place with those they borrowed money off, that’s why it’s called BORROWing. I’d rather borrow money and see my kids eat, than let them starve to death just so I don’t have to borrow anything.
This list is completely true.
Tony Blair Northern Ireland Peace Process
Total bullshit …
The entire world has embezzled billions with greed and lies and in a win effort to control the masses.UK has been hit by a world financial meltdown.
Infact the deficit has been added to over the last few years by a lot more then what labour added to it .. FACT.
If you plot a graph of our debt and colour it in when a party was in power the largest areas are BLUE..
So sorry you educated idiots do not tell us the truth… research and you will see how much more the conservatives have added to our debt…. it’s very interesting….
Is the Deficit Labours Fault?
It is amazing that your negative comments have been seen to be exactly what the Tory Party have achieved since 2010…greater debt, higher borrowing, higher school fees, higher inflations, lowest growth..discourse in N.Ireland, and people in the UK actually living below the poverty line in the highest numbers since the depression..
7 years of Tory waste
The other huge achievement was with Tony starting up his own business and become a multi millionaire.
A huge Labour Party achievement
Well done Tony showing that equal opportunities for all was something he was able to prove himself.
Greed is good as Gordon Geko would say.