SORRY, if Gordon Brown sounded like Bruce Forsyth or Larry Grayson on the classic TV gameshow The Generation Game today, but Labour's 13 years in power have achieved the following:
- the shortest NHS waiting times in history
- three million more operations a year
- over 44,000 more doctors
- 90,000 more nurses
- GPs open into the evenings and at weekends
- free cancer prescriptions
- a two-week maximum wait to see a cancer specialist
- over 100 new hospitals
- the Winter Fuel Allowance
- free TV licences and free bus passes for pensioners
- the Pension Credit
- the New Deal for the Unemployed
- full-time rights for part-time workers
- the Social Chapter
- record maternity pay
- for the first time in history the right to paternity leave
- the biggest programme of council house building for 20 years
- the Disability Discrimination Act
- the Racial and Religious Hatred act
- the Equalities Act
- the first black cabinet minister
- the first Muslim minister
- the first black woman minister to speak at the Commons despatch box
- civil partnerships, gay adoption, the repeal of Section 28 and yes the right to book into a bed and breakfast
- devolution: a Scottish Parliament, a Welsh Assembly and, yes, even a Mayor for London
- the transformation of our great cities with bright new dawns for Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester
- the Human Rights Act
- crime down by a third
- the hand gun ban
- domestic violence cut by two thirds and rape convictions up by half
- more police than ever on our streets
- the world’s first ever Climate Change Act
- beating the Kyoto emissions targets
- the tripling of overseas aid
- the cancelling of debt of the poorest countries
- the ban on cluster bombs
- peace in Northern Ireland
- a Britain in Europe’s mainstream not in Europe’s slipstream
- free swimming for kids
- free museum entry
- the right to roam
- banning fox hunting
- the Olympics for London
- half a million children out of poverty
- extended schools
- 42,000 more teachers
- the best ever exam results in schools
- Education Maintenance Allowances
- record numbers of students – and for the first time the majority of students are women
- a doubling of apprenticeships
- a Child Trust Fund for every newborn child
- Sure Start children’s centres
- free nursery places
- and Child Tax Credits that this Labour government brought in and which a Tory government would cut because they just do not get it, never have, never will
Don't risk losing any of this - and allow Labour to continue their work in making everyone's future better.
Vote Labour on Thursday.
And if you are still unsure - here is what Gordon Brown promises for the next FIVE years:
- cancer tests within not two weeks but one week
- free health check ups for the over 40s
- a restored link between pensions and earnings
- one million new skilled jobs
- broadband access for all
- a national care service
- a Post Office people’s bank
- more free nursery places
- a father’s month of leave for new dads
- a new toddler tax credit
- 10 thousand new council homes a year
- protection of local pubs and post offices
- an independent and thriving BBC
- low carbon energy and thousands of new green jobs
- a referendum on electing the Lords and changing the voting system
- and yes I can say today for more than a minimum wage – a rising minimum wage – every year a rising minimum wage
That is the offer of a Labour government – that’s the change we choose!
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