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