Friday 1 November 2019

A Labour government has never achieved anything?

AKA "All governments are useless and don't do anything except look after themselves".
Next time you hear this, remind Sammy Shitpost that the previous Labour government gave us the following:

  1. Civil Partnership
  2. The Human Rights Act
  3. Freedom of Information act
  4. Disability Rights Commission
  5. Enhanced employment rights
  6. 2009 Autism Act
  7. The Electoral Commission
  8. Department For International Development
  9. Banned foxhunting
  10. £2bn Communities Program
  11. Rural Development Program
  12. Free bus passes for over 60's
  13. Banned cluster bombs
  14. Ban on new grammar schools
  15. Banned cosmetic testing on animals
  16. Free breast cancer screening
  17. Started Crossrail
  18. Minimum wage and the low pay commission and tax credits
  19. 18% increase in wages
  20. Largest drop in relative poverty including 900,000 pensioners
  21. Doubled funding of education
  22. 42,400 extra teachers
  23. Sure start
  24. Reduced operation waiting times for 240,000 people to almost 0
  25. Record low waiting times for A&E
  26. Waiting times overall down to a max of 18 weeks (lowest ever)
  27. Decreased homelessness by 73%
  28. Free eye tests for over 60's
  29. Free TV licences for over 75's
  30. Extended opening times for GP practices
  31. Free prescriptions for cancer patients
  32. Free part time nursery places for every 3-4 yr old
  33. Reduced school class sizes
  34. 93,000 more 11 yr-olds achieving numeracy each year
  35. Increased annual leave to 28 days minimum
  36. Increased child benefit by over 26%
  37. Put £20bn into improving social housing
  38. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 1960s
  39. 10 years' continuous economic growth
  40. Heart disease deaths down by 150,000
  41. Removed minimum donation limit from Gift Aid
  42. Reduced NHS waiting lists overall by over 500,000
  43. Oversaw rise in school leavers with 5 good GCSEs from 45% to 76%
  44. Brought in young person's job guarantee, pension credit
  45. Doubled registered childcare spaces
  46. Points based immigration
  47. Equalised the age of consent
  48. Halved the number of nukes
  49. Free school fruit and milk
  50. Free entry to galleries and museums
  51. Wrote off up to 100% debt for poorest countries
  52. Doubled apprenticeships
  53. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75%
  54. 44,000 extra doctors
  55. 89,000 extra nurses
  56. 16,000 extra police officers
  57. Paternity leave
  58. Raised legal age of buying cigarettes to 18
  59. Banned tobacco advertising in magazines, newspapers and billboards
  60. Introduced the Smoking Ban
And more!

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