Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Fundamental differences

For the last week all i've heard come out of the Labour party conference is the statement from speakers that there is "fundamental differences between us and the tories". So i'd thought i'd investigate a few of them, and here is the first ten I could think of:

  1. The tories have a clear vision for the future with the adoption of "Built to Last". Labour can't look past next summer.
  2. The Tories want to lower taxes, where possible, to give money back to the people, Gordon Brown wants to tax you more, and then make you apply in writing for it back through tax credits.
  3. The Tories want to restore the incentives to save for retirement, Labour has raided pension funds in a tax grab to the tune of millions.
  4. The Tories want to improve effiency by scraping bureaucracy, government targets and league tables, Labour want to set targets and league tables for effiency savings.
  5. Labour want id cards, and a database state, the Tories don't.
  6. Labour want to set more targets and league tables for our schools, thus taking a school's focus away from teaching and go towards target hitting, the Tories wants to give freedom to schools to allow them to teach.
  7. The Tories want to help the police tackle crime by reducing centralisation and targets to allow them to fight crime, Labour want to increase the age of criminal responsibilty thus making less crimes recordable, or punishable.
  8. Under the last Tory government a criminal would serve "at least" two thirds of their sentence, under Labour they serve half (even less if they plead guilty).
  9. The Tories want to improve the chances of first time buyers of getting their first home through affordable housing, Gordon Brown is unwilling to deal with rising house prices, and wants to increase stamp duty.
  10. The Tories are united around David Cameron. Labour are spilt into factions.
This not an exhaustive list, so feel free to add to them in the comments.

1 comments:

Benedict White said...

Good article. That said I did an article after reading an on line article about where the battle gorund is between Conservative and Labour over here:
http://aconservatives.blogspot.com/2006/09/where-is-battleground.html