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1) Up to 50 thousand 'excess' deaths were recorded at hospitals during the last Labour Goverment. (Research by Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College).
2) The 'Bedroom Tax' was part of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 proposed by Labour.
3) Between 1997 to 2010 gas prices rose 133% and electricity prices rose 69%. Why would the public ever trust Labour on energy prices again?.
4) The devastating impact of Labour's raid on pensions: The tax grab has cost workers £118bn since 1997. (Office for Budget Responsibility).
5) Labour spent £148.7 million on a National Measurements Office which forces traders to measure their goods in kilograms rather than pounds.
6) The Royal Mail is now sold because of EU Postal Directive 2008/6/EC, brought in by the last Labour government.
7) Council Tax doubled under Labour - 105% increase in England, 146% Wales. (The Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy: 26/03/09).
8.) In 2012/13 Labour councils employed nearly 23,000 people on zero-hour contracts.
9) £660 million has been cut from Labour run NHS Wales over the last three years according to the Welsh TUC.
10) When Labour came to power in 1997, spending on NHS managers was less than £190m. By 2010 this had increased by 450% to over £1bn per year.
11) Labour wasted £11bn of taxpayers money on a failed IT project which was eventually scrapped by the NHS in 2013.
12) Labour lumbered the NHS with vast PFI repayments - £50 billion worth of loans which are costing £300 billion in repayments.
13) It was the Labour Party who awarded the DWP Medical Services Contract to ATOS on the 15th March 2005.
14) Labour started the privatisation of the NHS. They brought in the 2006 NHS Act that introduced competition into the NHS.
15) Labour introduced competition into the NHS: Competition Act 1998, Enterprise Act 2002 & Public Sector Procurement Regulations 2006.
16) In 2006 Gordon Brown cut the flood defence budget by £14 million.
17) Youth unemployment rose by more than 40% during Labour's 13 years in office.
18) Total stock of social housing fell under Labour - 421,000 homes were lost from the social housing stock between 1997 and 2010.
19) British manufacturing grew by 28% between 1980 and 1997. Then, under Labour, it shrank by 6%: falling from 20% of GDP to just 11%.
20) Labour left a deficit of £156 billion, PFI liability of £301 billion, EU Rebate loss £9.3 billion, Sold the Gold loss £6 billion.
21) The last Labour government spent so much money on Labour cronies that it had a 5% structural deficit at the height of the boom.
22) The use of food banks went up tenfold under Labour. From 3,000 users in 2005/06 to over 40,000 by 2009/10. (The Trussell Trust/C4 FactCheck).
23) When Labour's Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, UK public debt was 44.1% of GDP. When he left in 2010, it was 148.1%.
24) Only 6,330 council houses were completed from 1998 to 2010 under Labour, compared with 17,710 in 1990 alone - Thatcher's final year as PM.
25) Tony Blair gave away a chunk of the UK's EU rebate estimated now to have cost the UK £9.3 billion between 2007-2013.
26) In 2010 Gordon Brown branded Rochdale voter Gillian Duffy "a bigoted woman" for daring to voice her concern about uncontrolled immigration.
27) Labour are now complaining about gambling. But they were the ones who wanted to build Super Casinos in some of the poorest areas in Britain.
28) Labour closed more mines in 5 years than Thatcher did in 11 years.. 211 mines closed under Wilson 1965-70.. 154 under Thatcher 1979-90.
29) Under Labour zero hour contracts increased by 74% between 2004 - 2009.
30) Since Labour liberalised the law in 2000 to allow postal voting on demand, the number of postal voting fraud in Labour areas has soared.
31) Labour wants to charge patients. Lord Warner said people should pay a £10-a-month fee to use NHS/£20 for every night they stay in hospital.
32) Labour signed the Lisbon Treaty which gave away powers to the EU and reduced UK sovereignty and the power of our Westminster Parliament.
33) Labour were responsible for the rise in payday lenders. Now they are campaigning against them.
34) Labour presided over the slowest growth in 50 years and produced the fastest decline in British manufacturing since manufacturing began.
35) Labour destroyed our border controls then with the help of the BBC denounced anybody who voiced concerns about mass immigration as racists.
36) Labour councils are the biggest users of zero contracts.
37) Under Labour between 1997 to 2010 the gap between rich and poor got wider.
38) The last Labour government doubled the rate of income tax on the lowest paid.
39) Labour claims to be the party of the working man, but they have absolutely destroyed the working class through mass immigration.
40) Labour MPs to remember: Denis MacShane (jailed), David Chaytor (jailed), Eric Illsley (jailed), Elliot Morley (jailed), Jim Devine (jailed).
41) Blair invaded Iraq and Brown invaded the Treasury, both actions crippled us.
42) Labour opposes democracy in Britain by denying the British people a referendum on EU membership.
43) Labour Party Manifesto Pledge 2001: 'We will not introduce top-up fees'.
44) One of the reasons for high energy prices is EU driven 'Green Taxes' brought in by the last Labour government.
45) It was Labour under Blair who handed control of British food regulation to the EU, (Regulation EC no 178/2002).
46) Remember when Tony Blair and Labour essentially traded guns for access to oil with Libya.
47) The Labour Party paid only £14,000 in tax last year on total income of £33.3 million. (The Spectator, 30/07/2014).
48) If Ed Miliband can easily stab his own brother in the back, imagine what he will do to us if he ever becomes Prime Minister.

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Surely you could think of two more for a nice round figure of 50?

49) They're a bunch of Tories in red ties

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50) they are funded by the unions

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HOW ABOUT 50 REASONS TO VOTE TORY ???????????????????????????????

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F88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

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Vote for either, ye'll get the same corrupt, right wing, bribe taking scrotes anyway.

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Do you think your lot will be any different?

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Grandad,

yes

Scottish £20's are different

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Yep, right wingers are about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit around here

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Thanks for sharing that. It is notable the Labour Party say they agree 'in principle' with Tory welfare reforms, your point 2) of note. And 'in principle' overall they are becoming increasingly like the Tories, and would likely be happy in a future coalition with them - the future for British democracy does not look good - we are heading the way of the USA and that's not really good news (though in many ways USA is a great country it is also corrupted to its core). The way forward is strong small independent countries making the most of their resources, integrating social policy with business and economic policy, improving quality of life for all. Scotland will commence its future on that chosen path on Sept 19th.

The only argument that stacks up, and it's not really an argument is that a "Yes" vote, would be a chance for change.



I agree with the above but I really do believe that Scotland would have to go through one hell of a pain barrier, to achieve anything remotely like the social justice you allude to in your post. In fact, I think it's a pipe dream.

The wealthy elite and their political class in this country are not about to put the public interest before that of their own interests. Therefore, a "yes" vote is more likely to deliver us from the frying pan into the fire.

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George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

non forthcoming ............................now theres a surprise

How about NO NHS...................TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH.................25% rise in the cost of living.............Bedroom Tax..................etc etc etc

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F88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

BOOZE BOOZE BOOZE

Skull - you are exhibiting the very attitudes that Scotland needs to change - ie Scottish people are NOT politically involved, not in their communities nor society nor in their own day to day lives - its always somebody else far away that decides everything - your voice means nothing, you know that the 'wealthy elite and the political class' will NEVER budge an inch. And so we are defeated. It is that defeatism that runs right through the Scottish psyche - its what makes us drink, take drugs or get in pointless fights, it makes us have low self-esteem. Scotland has one of the worst health records in Europe and some of the worst poverty, pretty shocking considering its wealth. There is a better way, but we have to fight for it. No-one can deny Scottish people have a distinctive culture - its time to be proud of that, its time to take a stand for what we believe in - a better deal for Scotland, control of our own resources, a government representing the people of Scotland. If Scottish people wake up on Sept 19th and still be under Westminster control it will be a terrible terrible lost opportunity - for once in your life just believe in something, just believe in yourself, all you have to do is tick a box not get skewered on some battlefield like our ancestors did!

I am exhibiting nothing of the sort because I know how the political system works and better than most. And as long as you have a system which fails to deliver transparency and direct accountability in the public interest, you will always have an unaccountable wealthy elite and their political lap dogs running the country in their own interests, and that's an irrefutable fact.

The Scottish people are not about to wake-up and start championing the cause for social justice which a political class is then duty-bound to deliver. It just won't happen. The only chance Scotland has of ever becoming the kind of society you, and I dream about will be at a point of civil unrest. That's your opportunity for real change.

What you seem to be proposing is, "vote yes" and our political system will start delivering up huge helpings of social justice like dumplings at Christmas time.

I'm telling you now, even if you get your independent Scotland any kind of justice will be hard fought for.

The political brave heart theme is a nice dream but bollocks all the same.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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