Name 10 positive things Labour has done for this Country?

Question

My dad was a Labour supporter (but not anymore) ,he asked me to name 10 positive things labour has done.I could only think of 1
"The smoking ban" but i could go on forever with the negatives.
tax raises,failing education,cash straped NHS etc.
Can anyone think of any other positives or negatives?

in response to the man with golden gun.
The only positive thing i can do for this country is not voting Labour in the next election.

Dave s
can't speel ,That labour gud education for yu.
I got 10 gsce A* only this yer.

Answer 1

Name 10 positive things YOU have done for your country

Answer 2

1 Autumn Paige.2 Caydence Raine.3 Fallon Journey.4 Charlotte Addison.5 Summer Bleu.6 Winter Mackenzie.7 Willow Charisma.8 Blakely Skye.9 Peyton Elena.10 Delilah Olivia.

Answer 3

The present Labour Party or New Labour, is the modern Party which stated out in the late 19th century to become the Labour Party. Here are some of the things which Labour and the Labour Movement has created for the benefit of all of the people.

1) free education from 5 - 16
2) free school meals for the children of the poor
3) a free health service for everyone
4) child benefit - available to rich and poor alike
5) anti discrimination laws to protect the individual citizen
6) devolved government in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales - Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly and the Welsh Assembly
7) tax credits for the less well off and the poor
8) pension credits for our veteran pensioners
9) heating allowance for the over 60s
10) anti smoking legislation which will reduce smoking in the population and thus help reduce spending on the NHS

The lives of all of our citizens has been made more comfortable by the Labour Party and the Labour Movement. I know because I was born in 1941 before ever we had an NHS and much else which we often take for granted. When my hero father returned valiant from World War II, he, along with almost the entire British Army, voted for the Labour Party. The result was a complete change in our nation. The Labour Government went flat out to create the NHS and the Welfare State and achived all of this in five years.

By voting LABOUR you will secure your future and that of your nation. You will safeguard the NHS and your State Pension - neither of which is safe in Tory hands.

I am expressing to you a lifetime of experience as a working class man. Labour and only Labour, make it possible for ordinary people to succeed.

Answer 4

1. Independant Bank of Englan
2. Employment has been going up
3. Ban on fox hunting
4. More money for NHS
5. More money for education
6. Lower waiting times in NHS
7. Growing economy
8. Climate Change targets
9. Keeping close with EU
10. Tackiling smoking

The labour party hasn't been as bad as people think. The media focus on bad points when there are loads of good points. That's why everyone hates Tony Blaire. Because people are sheep to the media. If you look at the facts like look on wikipedia you find out that Tony Blaire has done some good stuff. Higher taxes aren't the bad thing you think. Remember they being put back into the economy and being spent wisely. Well more wisely than we spend it. We spend it in huge chain stores that don't benefit us, because they pay workers here too low. The government puts into education and health care. Stuff that benefits us. Conservatives would lower taxes at a cost. It would put less money in and our economy wouldn't improve like it has with labour, even maybe go down.

Answer 5

I have tried, I really have, but have been unable to come up with one positive let alone 10.

When I think of Labour these things spring to mind:

Inept
Incompetent
Corrupt
Freeloading PM
Charity robbing wife of the British PM
Presscott and his 10 year plan for Transport
The Dome fiasco
Dr. David Kelly's apparent suicide
Blunkett getting his mistress a British Visa/Passport
Why was it that when that t*at Madelson was fired, TWICE, Blair allowed him to keep his ministerial house and his police bodyguard?
'Jug' Ears Clarke
A. Darling
Military being sent to fight wars without the basic protective gear and yet millions are wasted by the jobsworth in the M.O.D on plasma screens, new desks, carpets etc and millions more wasted on ensuring that Asylum Seekers/Refugees/Criminals live in pure comfort with all the latest mod-cons whilst the elderly debate whether to eat or turn the heating on!!!!!!
People being sent to prison for not paying the Council Tax, cos they can't afford it, whilst murderers, rapists, peados, drug dealers get community service or ASBO's!!!!

Answer 6

1. Child labor laws. Kids no longer working in coal mines.
2. 40 hr work week.
3. Overtime pay after 40 hrs.
4. Holiday pay, usually 2 to 2.5 times the regular rate of pay.
5. Paid vacation days.
6. Night shift differential. Increased pay for working grave yard or after hour shift.
7. Increased pay for working on Sundays. Some jobs.
8. Health benefits. Most jobs provide some form of coverage. Some full some partial.
9. Job security, in the form of a shop steward, in a union shop, to represent you in the event that you feel you are being treated unfairly.
10. OSHA laws. Occupational, Safety, Health, Act, laws which compel (USA) business owners to provide a safe work environment for the people they employ.
The list is way longer then this.
I think your dad might be mad at the jobs that we once had here in America that have left the country due to the cost that these benefits cost to the businesses that employ US labor.
Take a look at the label on any article of clothing before you put it on and ask yourself how many of the 10 positive things that I just listed, the person who made it is enjoying?
Now you know why your dad and a lot of other people are concerned.

Answer 7

Much as i think Tony Blair is not the best thing for the country at the minute, stretch your mind back over the past 10 years. The education system, the pensioners and the NHS are all doing better than they were under the tory government and unemployment rates are way lower than they were. Do i need to remind everyone of the lines of 300 or more people all waiting to be interviewed for the only 2 work positions available in their area? How about the coal mine strikes?

The NHS has never really been able to recover because the tories made a hash of it and now half of the country are suing them (some quite rightly some need to get over it) which is draining the resources. You say education is failing, where is your source for quoting this? People travel from other countries to study in this country.

I agreee that there are several negatives and i believe that Tony Blair as lost it quite a lot over the past few years specifically from when he started to associate with Bush. There is huge scope for further improvement in the NHS and education, and i think its atrocious that we pay such high tax given that we have one of the most stable economies in the world but i don't think it's fair to ignore all of the positive changes made since taking over the country.

To the point:

1) Investment in education
2) Investment in hospitals
3) Investment in OAP's
4) Working tax credit
5) Paternity leave and pay
6) Invesment in road systems
7) Introducing and increasing minimum wage
8) Grossly reducing unemployment
9) Paying off billions of pounds worth of UK debts
10) Smoking bans
11) Legalising same sex partnership
12) Child trust fund

Answer 8

An impartial view:

1. One of the first acts of the 1997 Labour government was to give the Bank of England operational independence in its setting of interest rates, a move mentioned neither in the manifesto nor during the election campaign.

2. One of the most popular policies introduced was Britain's first National Minimum Wage Act.

3. There have also been various programmes targeted at specific sections of the population; the target for reducing homelessness was achieved by 2000.

4. Chancellor Gordon Brown oversaw the SureStart scheme intended for young families, a new system of tax credits for those working with below-average incomes and an energy allowance provided to pensioners during the winter.

5. Labour's second term saw substantial increases in public spending, especially on the National Health Service, which the government insisted must be linked to the reforms it was proposing. Spending on education was likewise increased, with schools encouraged to adopt "specialisms".

6. The government also promoted wider use of Public Private Partnerships and the Private Finance Initiative, which were opposed particularly by trade unions as a form of privatisation.

7. Labour's second term saw substantial increases in public spending, especially on the National Health Service, which the government insisted must be linked to the reforms it was proposing.

8. The Party has sought to put the promotion of human rights and democracy, and latterly the war against terrorism, at the core of British foreign policy. This has led to a new emphasis on the Department for International Development, with ministers Clare Short and Hilary Benn holding some influence within the administration.

9. The decision of the UK to fight alongside the United States and a number of forces in smaller numbers from around the world (a majority of UN member governments opposed the war but a large minority supported it) in the 2003 invasion of Iraq succeeded in removing Saddam Hussein and the ruthless Ba'athist regime in Iraq.

10. The introduction of identity cards presents political and logistical difficulties as civil liberties groups increasingly oppose the creation of a biometric identity database. Despite opposition from the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and some Labour MPs, the Bill has passed through all of its readings in the Commons so far. However, recent leaked Home Office memos have condemned the scheme as originally devised.

Answer 9

As a single person working full time, and with a mortgage, I am not eligible for all these so called 'tax credits' that I am paying through the nose for others to have.

Labour has done nothing for me except raise my taxes year on year.

As a law abiding citizen I live in fear of being cast as a criminal for putting the 'wrong rubbish in the wrong bag'.

All THIS government has done is make life very difficult for the working person.
They have wasted BILLIONS on their (failed) pet projects.
....(' What !!. It dont work ??...heres another few billion of taxpayers money. Try something else')

I dont think they have done anything positive.

Answer 10

I used to be a Labour Supporter I voted labour in 97 but not since then. It has become clear to me that Blair is far more concerned about what happens in the rest of the world than his own people.We are simply his "bank account" to keep him at the top of the world's political scene.
January 2007,the next wave of invaders has begun.New E.U. members unloading their undesirables onto the streets of the U.K. More pressure on our services from people demanding their rights to free health care,schooling and any benefits they can claim---result,More tax to cope with our new brothers and sisters.
I despair what this will bring our children.So, instead of trying to name positive things, it is far easier to name 10 negative things that Labour has done for us!!

Answer 11

I too was a lifelong Labour supporter and to my eternal shame helped Tony Blair come to power.
The result is massive dishonesty, corruption on a scale never before seen is this country, taxes upon taxes without corresponding benefit, an unjustifiable war costing thousands of lives. A transport system which is a joke, a health service suffering hospital closures after being pumped up with massive, wasted investment, council tax rises of unprecedented levels,and an education system which produces people who cannot read or write and sends them to university.
In my disgust I joined UKIP, the only party that will put Britain first, will give us back our freedom to make our own decisions and get us out of the EU, and will spend our taxes wisely.