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Sunday, April 22, 2007

New Labour Tory polices & 2 Horse Lies?

New Labour leaflet tells me that it's a two horse race between New Labour and the Torys.
See this story as it illustrates the dirty tricks New Laboutr has resorted to win votes.
- Fury over Plaid coalition 'lies' Apr 21 2007 Martin Shipton, Western Mail
PLAID CYMRU last night dramatically offered to hold talks with Labour to stop any prospect of the Conservatives entering government in Wales.The move was Plaid
leader Ieuan Wyn Jones's response to the "lies" he claimed Labour was peddling in suggesting he was willing to serve in a Tory-led coalition.

Insisting he would not contemplate such a coalition he said, "Labour keeps peddling this story and therefore they are calling into question, frankly, my integrity."In a sense they are calling me a liar... It's time for Labour to stop peddling this lie, make it clear that they accept my word and not repeat it again."
New Labour wants me to vote for Cllr Asbo Sophie Howe who can't sort out Whitchurch parking problems or a skate board park for young people as a councillor so what can she achieve in the Assembly? Her emphasis on anti social behaviour and all this talk of yobs and thugs is unpleasant and right wing. I think politicans should try and mollify and allay peoples fear of crime rather than exacerbate it.
Where did the idea to tackling anti-social behaviour using ASBOs come from? According to Will McMahon of the Crime and Society Foundation, Asbos were first touted by right-wing criminology think-tanks in the mid-1990s as a way of modernising an arcane and cumbersome body of statutes regulating housing law and neighbourly disputes. Though rejected by the Major government as unworkable, they found favour with New Labour.
Rising fear of youth crime saw 'ungovernable' or 'incorrigible' children ordered into a reform programme as far back as 1806, according to archive material made available by the young people's charity Rainer. The historical equivalent of 'anti-social behaviour' saw children as young as nine referred to the Philanthropic Society in an attempt to reform them before they became involved in crime.

New Labour is moving social policy backwards in two ways:
first, through the re-emergence of the “problem family”, a concept stemming from the 1950s which blames families themselves for their social problems;
second, by the sense of déjà vu that long-serving social care professionals will feel as a result of the government’s approach. “The government is repeating the cycle of analysis by Sir Keith Joseph, Conservative social services minister in the 1970s, which is that problem families are
the source of all our problems” Vote New Labour get New Labour Tories.
Now are public services better under New Labour in Wales?
Privatisation has led to Turkey Twizzlers and MRSA and not getting better.....Jobs lost in closed job centres Wales, regional pay so that workers in Merthyr get less than those in Cardiff and those less than Bristol?
PCS doesn't think our public services are safe with Welsh New Labour.
It is what Welsh New Labour & Rhrodri Morgan & Cardiff North Sophie Howe don't say in their leaflets that it won't
1. cut civil service jobs in the devolved and
non-devolved civil service in Wales.
2.provide well staffed local offices providing the public with the option of face to face contact.
3. stop privatising public services.
4. agree that Welsh civil servants deserve fair play on pay
5. introduce regional pay in the public sector.

Privatised jobs = no job or worse pay = more child poverty in Wales
Notice that New Labour formerly 'Welsh Labour' now just Labour in 2007 Welsh elections?


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ieuan Wyn Jones is a little disingenuous about a Plaid/Tory coaltion.

If you notice he continually affirms that Plaid won't serve under a Tory First Minister, but whenever I have seen leading Plaid figures interviewed on TV they continually dodge the question of whether they would be happy to be in a coalition with the tories if it would put in place a Plaid First Minister.