MVarama 'Blair Brown etc'24 Oct 2022 21:52
'You list how better off we were after 12 years of the Blair/Brown government.
And tell us who rebuilt the country after WW2.'
Off the top of my head
Cut homelessness.
Peace in Ireland.
Wales/Scotland Parliaments.
Greater rights for gay people.
The Human Rights Act.
Minimum Wage.
Pensions raised.
INVESTMENT in the NHS & Education LOWERING waiting lists from 18 months to 18 weeks.
Stopped the ability of water companies to cut off our water supplies.
Freedom Of Information Act
Promoted Social equality
CHILD POVERTY more than halved Pensioner POVERTY fell by 75% (97-2005)
The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 extended a legal right to walk to about 3,200 square miles of open countryside.
'During Blair's time in office, over 2,000,000 people had been lifted out of poverty.'
Post War- Clement Attlee
The period from 1946 to 1951 saw continuous full employment and steadily rising living standards, which increased by about 10 per cent each year. During that same period, the economy grew by 3 per cent a year, and by 1951 the UK had "the best economic performance in Europe, while output per person was increasing faster than in the United States".
He oversaw the formation of the NHS (our greatest achievement as a nation), National Parks, Ministry Of Education.Nationalised the Bank Of England,Coal mining, the railways, road haulage, canals and Cable and Wireless, electricity & gas.
He also won a landslide victory over Churchill whose campaign was 'mostly about Churchill' (ring any bells?).
I could go on.
Now.. what about the last TWELVE YEARS of Conservative Government??
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