List of Labours failures

[CHIEF]

Having a disagreement at the moment with a right lentil munching car hating Leftie, anyway she's basically said Labour has been good to her and good for this country.

Can anyone direct me to a list of f**k ups and failures that New Labour has done?

I can think of quite a few but would like a sizeable list if possible.



Thanks chaps.

[Halb]

Good for the country is more open to debate. What does she say has been good for her?

...She a single mum with a dozen kids by seven different fathers?

[CHIEF]

Halb said:

Good for the country is more open to debate. What does she say has been good for her?

...She a single mum with a dozen kids by seven different fathers?

Not far off and works in public sector.

[FourWheelDrift]

Gordon Brown's 10 worst financial mistakes.

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2009...

Basically tell her he is to blame for the recession by allowing loopholes to remain to allow people to borrow beyond their means. He failed to put in place regulations (despite being told about them) so there were no safety net checks in place that banks had to carry out when a finance company came to them with the latest borrowing. So naturally following the basic procedures in place they assumed the basic credit check was done and fine and let it go through. Hence mortgage sub-prime failures, debt burden and recession. Thanks Winky.

[Guybrush]

Here you go, some to be going on with...

http://www.labourfailures.co.uk/
http://www.conservatives.com/pdf/LaboursTop50faliu...
http://real-labour.tripod.com/id13.html

[kiteless]

Some starters for 10:

£22,500 of debt for every child born in Britain
- 111 tax rises from a government that promised no tax rises at all
- The longest national tax code in the world
- 100,000 million pounds drained from British pension funds
- Gun crime up by 57%
- Violent crime up 70%
- The highest proportion of children living in workless households anywhere in Europe
- The number of pensioners living in poverty up by 100,000
- The lowest level of social mobility in the developed world
- The only G7 country with no growth this year
- One in six young people neither earning nor learning
- 5 million people on out-of –work benefits
- Missing the target of halving child poverty
- Ending up with child poverty rising in each of the last three years instead
- Cancer survival rates among the worst in Europe
- Hospital-acquired infections killing nearly three times as many people as are killed on the roads
- Falling from 4th to 13th in the world competitiveness league
- Falling from 8th to 24th in the world education rankings in maths
- Falling from 7th to 17th in the rankings in literacy
- The police spending more time on paperwork than on the beat
- Fatal stabbings at an all-time high
- Prisoners released without serving their sentences
- Foreign prisoners released and never deported
- 7 million people without an NHS dentist
- Small business taxes going up
- Business taxes raised from among the lowest to among the highest in Europe
- Tax rises for working people set for after the election
- The 10p tax rate abolished
- And the ludicrous promise to have ended boom and bust
- Our gold reserves sold for a quarter of their worth
- Our armed forces overstretched and under-supplied
- Profitable post offices closed against their will
- One of the highest rates of family breakdown in Europe
- The ‘Golden Rule’ on borrowing abandoned when it didn’t fit
- Police inspectors in 10,Downing Street
- Dossiers that were dodgy
- Mandelson resigning the first time
- Mandelson resigning the second time
- Mandelson coming back for a third time
- Bad news buried
- Personal details lost
- An election bottled
- A referendum denied

[hat-tip]William Hague[/hat-tip]

[CHIEF]

Kiteless that is superb - Thank you sir.

Thanks to the other tips and links as well.

[FourWheelDrift]

(as of September 2008) Since 1997 Labour have introduced 3,605 new criminal offences.

Including:-

It is now illegal to sell grey squirrels.
Impersonate a traffic warden.
Creating a nuclear explosion was outlawed in 1998.
It is an offence for a ship's captain to be carrying grain unless he has a copy of the International Grain Code on board.
A person shall not enter the hull of the Titanic without permission from the Secretary of State.
No person shall, in the course of business, import into England potatoes which he knows to be or has reasonable cause to suspect to be Polish potatoes.
Disturb a pack of eggs when instructed not to by an authorised officer
Offer for sale a game bird killed on a Sunday or Christmas Day
Attach an ear tag to an animal when it has previously been used to identify another animal

Under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005
Part seven of the Act created offences of failing to nominate a key-holder where an audible intruder alarm is present. (Yep bet you didn't know about that one, how many times have you been away on holiday in the last few years and not nominated a key holder if an alarm is present?, You lawbreakers you!)

I could go on......Good to see our hard earned taxes have been spent well.

[Mclovin]

except for rbs who is going to employ these idiots when their out....i presume their get massive golden goodbyes although the shower type would be more fitting but they cant do anything right...

[Plotloss]

Lowest level of social mobility in the world.

That's a bad thing, is it?

[DSM2]

Surely, it is easier to list the good things done by New Labour, as I have done here:

[cymtriks]

Plotloss said:

Lowest level of social mobility in the world.

That's a bad thing, is it?

It's a red herring. There is absolutely no reason why we should view higher mobility as a good thing when any stable society naturally converges on a steady and small value.

Introducing personal mobility, universal education and health care and avoiding all out war promotes social mobility in those previously held back.

But we've had all this for over sixty years so our society is naturally converging to a new set of stable social strata.

If you want a massive change in mobility then have a war, revolution or plague. If you don't fancy these then just be gratefull that mobility is low.

[Monkeylegend]

DSM2 said:

Surely, it is easier to list the good things done by New Labour, as I have done here:

I think I can add to that.















Plus plenty of

[s2art]

cymtriks said:

Plotloss said:

Lowest level of social mobility in the world.

That's a bad thing, is it?

It's a red herring. There is absolutely no reason why we should view higher mobility as a good thing when any stable society naturally converges on a steady and small value.

Introducing personal mobility, universal education and health care and avoiding all out war promotes social mobility in those previously held back.

But we've had all this for over sixty years so our society is naturally converging to a new set of stable social strata.

If you want a massive change in mobility then have a war, revolution or plague. If you don't fancy these then just be gratefull that mobility is low.

Drivel.

[Halb]

Somebody on the news today said we are the only Western country still in recession, don't know if that is he case.

[Puggit]

FourWheelDrift said:

Creating a nuclear explosion was outlawed in 1998.

[theironduke]

Halb said:

Somebody on the news today said we are the only Western country still in recession, don't know if that is he case.

Pretty sure i heard Teresa May say that today on R4.

[SeeFive]

Wait a couple of days, Garlick is off to buy some more disk to store this thread.

[Asterix]

kiteless said:

Some starters for 10:

£22,500 of debt for every child born in Britain
- 111 tax rises from a government that promised no tax rises at all
- The longest national tax code in the world
- 100,000 million pounds drained from British pension funds
- Gun crime up by 57%
- Violent crime up 70%
- The highest proportion of children living in workless households anywhere in Europe
- The number of pensioners living in poverty up by 100,000
- The lowest level of social mobility in the developed world
- The only G7 country with no growth this year
- One in six young people neither earning nor learning
- 5 million people on out-of –work benefits
- Missing the target of halving child poverty
- Ending up with child poverty rising in each of the last three years instead
- Cancer survival rates among the worst in Europe
- Hospital-acquired infections killing nearly three times as many people as are killed on the roads
- Falling from 4th to 13th in the world competitiveness league
- Falling from 8th to 24th in the world education rankings in maths
- Falling from 7th to 17th in the rankings in literacy
- The police spending more time on paperwork than on the beat
- Fatal stabbings at an all-time high
- Prisoners released without serving their sentences
- Foreign prisoners released and never deported
- 7 million people without an NHS dentist
- Small business taxes going up
- Business taxes raised from among the lowest to among the highest in Europe
- Tax rises for working people set for after the election
- The 10p tax rate abolished
- And the ludicrous promise to have ended boom and bust
- Our gold reserves sold for a quarter of their worth
- Our armed forces overstretched and under-supplied
- Profitable post offices closed against their will
- One of the highest rates of family breakdown in Europe
- The ‘Golden Rule’ on borrowing abandoned when it didn’t fit
- Police inspectors in 10,Downing Street
- Dossiers that were dodgy
- Mandelson resigning the first time
- Mandelson resigning the second time
- Mandelson coming back for a third time
- Bad news buried
- Personal details lost
- An election bottled
- A referendum denied

[hat-tip]William Hague[/hat-tip]

Ok - silly question time - why doesn't CMD ram this down his throat at every opportunity?

[fido]

Plotloss said:

Lowest level of social mobility in the world.

That's a bad thing, is it?

Yes, because it's not fair, but more importantly the classes don't mix and thus we breed super-chavs and super-toffs - but not enough middlies which leads to societal imbalances. Grammar schools for example, give the lower classes the chance to go to good universities and mix it with toffs, and perhaps become a Labour cabinet minister so that they can deny those chances to the next generation.

Edited by fido on Wednesday 20th January 23:20