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01 Mar 13
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I only went up to 1992 as Labour became New Tories in 1997.
1)The banking sector would benefit from increased competition. We therefore intend to bring about a major development in the Girobank so that it will compete on equal terms with the big four clearing banks and improve standards of service to small savers. The National Savings Bank has a valuable role to play in providing a unique service and in making a significant contribution to financing the Government's operations, thus reducing our reliance on the City. By developing the Girobank and the National Savings Bank to their full potential, a XXXXXXX Government will ensure for the country a vigorous public banking sector.
2)We believe that a competitive and efficient coal industry has an important role in meeting energy demand, together with a proper contribution from nuclear power.
3)In the first session of the next Parliament we shall therefore give council and new town tenants the legal right to buy their homes, while recognising the special circumstances of rural areas and sheltered housing for the elderly. Subject to safeguards over resale, the terms we propose would allow a discount on market values reflecting the fact that council tenants effectively have security of tenure. Our discounts will range from 33 per cent after three years, rising with length of tenancy to a maximum of 50 per cent after twenty years. We shall also ensure that 100 per cent mortgages are available for the purchase of council and new town houses.
4)This was one of our principal reasons for proposing a tax credit scheme. Child benefits are a step in the right direction. Further progress will be very difficult in the next few years, both for reasons of cost and because of technical problems involved in the switch to computers. We shall wish to move towards the fulfilment of our original tax credit objectives as and when resources become available. Meanwhile we shall do all we can to find other ways to simplify the system, restore the incentive to work, reduce the poverty trap and bring more effective help to those in greatest need.
5)Give back to large district councils in England responsibility for education, planning, social services, local libraries and other local services.
6)We will retain the freedom to determine our own budgetary policy and to control our own currency. A XXXXXXX Government will retain the power to impose controls on capital movements and will continue to resist any upward harmonisation of VAT or any reduction in the existing range of zero-rated VAT items in Britain. A XXXXXX Government would not join an economic and monetary union.
7)We will also open immediate negotiations with our EEC partners, and introduce the necessary legislation, to prepare for Britain's withdrawal from the EEC, to be completed well within the lifetime of the XXXXXXXXXXXX government.
8)The European Community is the world's largest trading group. It is by far our most important export market. Withdrawal would be a catastrophe for this country. As many as two million jobs would be at risk. We would lose the great export advantages and the attraction to overseas investors which membership now gives us. It would be a fateful step towards isolation,
9)exchange controls - maintained by successive British governments since 1939; - will be re-introduced. This will help to counter currency speculation and to make available - to industry and government in Britain - the large capital resources that are now flowing overseas.
10)Establish a major public service facility - a Product Research Unit - to test products and manufacturers' claims about them, and to publicise the results widely.
11)Establish a National Investment Bank to put new resources from private institutions and from the government - including North Sea oil revenues - on a large scale into our industrial priorities. The bank will attract and channel savings, by agreement, in a way that guarantees these savings and improves the quality of investment in the UK.
Exercise, through the Bank of England, much closer direct control over bank lending. Agreed development plans will be concluded with the banks and other financial institutions.
12)End enforced council house sales, empower public landlords to repurchase homes sold under the XXXXXXX on first resale and provide that future voluntary agreed sales will be at market value.
13)We will shift radically the balance between central and local government and give local communities much more say about how their services are run.
14) 157,000 more full-time and part-time students we want to expand higher education opportunities still further. By 1990, we plan to increase student numbers by a further 50,000, and to raise the proportion of 18-year-olds in higher education.
15)We will ensure that our universities and polytechnics get the resources they need to restore and expand the opportunity for all qualified young people seeking higher education to secure places. We will ensure that more adults have access to higher education to give them the 'second chance' of personal development
We will also invest in research in higher education, in order to provide the facilities and opportunities necessary to sustain standards of excellence, to retain and attract the highest talents and to encourage the industrial and commercial application of research output.
16) Encourage greater participation in sport and recreation.
Give incentives to voluntary bodies to involve themselves more widely in the provision of sporting and community facilities.
Encourage local authorities and other owners of facilities to make them much more available to public use.
Set up an immediate enquiry into the financial basis of sport and recreation.
Review the provision of national sporting facilities, so as to secure a fairer geographical distribution.
Ensure that the sporting talent of the nation receives sufficient support to enable them to bring sporting success to Britain.
17)Our Support Sport programme will provide more resources for physical education and training through more playing fields and facilities, better equipment and well-trained teachers and instructors. We will nourish special talents and encourage wider participation in sport.
18)We will encourage schools to open up their recreational facilities to the whole community and prevent the selling off of school and other sports grounds.
19)For the press, we will encourage diversity by:
Setting up a launch fund to assist new publications.
Ensuring that all major wholesalers accept any lawful publication, and arrange for its proper supply and display, subject to a handling charge.
Preventing acquisition of further newspapers by large press chains.
Protecting freedom of expression by prohibiting joint control of the press, commercial radio and television.
Breaking up major concentrations of press ownership, by setting an upper limit for the number of major publications in the hands of a single proprietor or press group.
Replacing the Press Council with a stronger, more representative body.
20)For all these reasons, British withdrawal from the Community is the right policy for Britain - to be completed well within the lifetime of the parliament. That is our commitment. But we are also committed to bring about withdrawal in an amicable and orderly way, so that we do not prejudice employment or the prospect of increased political and economic co-operation with the whole of Europe.
21)Bring in a stronger regulatory framework to ensure honest practice in the City of London and introduce new safeguards on mergers, takeovers and monopolies to protect our national industrial, technological and research and development interests.
22) Like other sections of British industry, however, the City was held back by restrictive practices until they were swept away in last year's "big bang". This has brought nearer the day when shares can be bought and sold over the counter in every high street. We have also given building societies greater freedom to make a wider range of financial services available to the average family.
23)XXXXXXXXX will restore the right of councils to decide their own policies and plans, which will be subject to the decisions of local people at annual local elections.
24)We will legislate to ensure that ownership and control of the press and broadcasting media are retained by citizens of Britain and to place limits on the concentration of owner ship
25)To build on the EC's Association Agreements with Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland so that we can welcome them to full membership by the year 2000.
26)We will continue to expand the number of students in higher education. We are abolishing the artificial 'binary line' between universities and polytechnics.
27) We will take 740,000 taxpayers out of taxation altogether by increasing the personal allowance and wife's earned income allowance by more than inflation. Married couples will have the option of splitting the married couple's allowance between them as they choose.
28)In order to get better standards we are liberating services from centralised control over capital. We will push forward our Private Finance Initiative to break down these old barriers.
1)The banking sector would benefit from increased competition. We therefore intend to bring about a major development in the Girobank so that it will compete on equal terms with the big four clearing banks and improve standards of service to small savers. The National Savings Bank has a valuable role to play in providing a unique service and in making a significant contribution to financing the Government's operations, thus reducing our reliance on the City. By developing the Girobank and the National Savings Bank to their full potential, a XXXXXXX Government will ensure for the country a vigorous public banking sector.
2)We believe that a competitive and efficient coal industry has an important role in meeting energy demand, together with a proper contribution from nuclear power.
3)In the first session of the next Parliament we shall therefore give council and new town tenants the legal right to buy their homes, while recognising the special circumstances of rural areas and sheltered housing for the elderly. Subject to safeguards over resale, the terms we propose would allow a discount on market values reflecting the fact that council tenants effectively have security of tenure. Our discounts will range from 33 per cent after three years, rising with length of tenancy to a maximum of 50 per cent after twenty years. We shall also ensure that 100 per cent mortgages are available for the purchase of council and new town houses.
4)This was one of our principal reasons for proposing a tax credit scheme. Child benefits are a step in the right direction. Further progress will be very difficult in the next few years, both for reasons of cost and because of technical problems involved in the switch to computers. We shall wish to move towards the fulfilment of our original tax credit objectives as and when resources become available. Meanwhile we shall do all we can to find other ways to simplify the system, restore the incentive to work, reduce the poverty trap and bring more effective help to those in greatest need.
5)Give back to large district councils in England responsibility for education, planning, social services, local libraries and other local services.
6)We will retain the freedom to determine our own budgetary policy and to control our own currency. A XXXXXXX Government will retain the power to impose controls on capital movements and will continue to resist any upward harmonisation of VAT or any reduction in the existing range of zero-rated VAT items in Britain. A XXXXXX Government would not join an economic and monetary union.
7)We will also open immediate negotiations with our EEC partners, and introduce the necessary legislation, to prepare for Britain's withdrawal from the EEC, to be completed well within the lifetime of the XXXXXXXXXXXX government.
8)The European Community is the world's largest trading group. It is by far our most important export market. Withdrawal would be a catastrophe for this country. As many as two million jobs would be at risk. We would lose the great export advantages and the attraction to overseas investors which membership now gives us. It would be a fateful step towards isolation,
9)exchange controls - maintained by successive British governments since 1939; - will be re-introduced. This will help to counter currency speculation and to make available - to industry and government in Britain - the large capital resources that are now flowing overseas.
10)Establish a major public service facility - a Product Research Unit - to test products and manufacturers' claims about them, and to publicise the results widely.
11)Establish a National Investment Bank to put new resources from private institutions and from the government - including North Sea oil revenues - on a large scale into our industrial priorities. The bank will attract and channel savings, by agreement, in a way that guarantees these savings and improves the quality of investment in the UK.
Exercise, through the Bank of England, much closer direct control over bank lending. Agreed development plans will be concluded with the banks and other financial institutions.
12)End enforced council house sales, empower public landlords to repurchase homes sold under the XXXXXXX on first resale and provide that future voluntary agreed sales will be at market value.
13)We will shift radically the balance between central and local government and give local communities much more say about how their services are run.
14) 157,000 more full-time and part-time students we want to expand higher education opportunities still further. By 1990, we plan to increase student numbers by a further 50,000, and to raise the proportion of 18-year-olds in higher education.
15)We will ensure that our universities and polytechnics get the resources they need to restore and expand the opportunity for all qualified young people seeking higher education to secure places. We will ensure that more adults have access to higher education to give them the 'second chance' of personal development
We will also invest in research in higher education, in order to provide the facilities and opportunities necessary to sustain standards of excellence, to retain and attract the highest talents and to encourage the industrial and commercial application of research output.
16) Encourage greater participation in sport and recreation.
Give incentives to voluntary bodies to involve themselves more widely in the provision of sporting and community facilities.
Encourage local authorities and other owners of facilities to make them much more available to public use.
Set up an immediate enquiry into the financial basis of sport and recreation.
Review the provision of national sporting facilities, so as to secure a fairer geographical distribution.
Ensure that the sporting talent of the nation receives sufficient support to enable them to bring sporting success to Britain.
17)Our Support Sport programme will provide more resources for physical education and training through more playing fields and facilities, better equipment and well-trained teachers and instructors. We will nourish special talents and encourage wider participation in sport.
18)We will encourage schools to open up their recreational facilities to the whole community and prevent the selling off of school and other sports grounds.
19)For the press, we will encourage diversity by:
Setting up a launch fund to assist new publications.
Ensuring that all major wholesalers accept any lawful publication, and arrange for its proper supply and display, subject to a handling charge.
Preventing acquisition of further newspapers by large press chains.
Protecting freedom of expression by prohibiting joint control of the press, commercial radio and television.
Breaking up major concentrations of press ownership, by setting an upper limit for the number of major publications in the hands of a single proprietor or press group.
Replacing the Press Council with a stronger, more representative body.
20)For all these reasons, British withdrawal from the Community is the right policy for Britain - to be completed well within the lifetime of the parliament. That is our commitment. But we are also committed to bring about withdrawal in an amicable and orderly way, so that we do not prejudice employment or the prospect of increased political and economic co-operation with the whole of Europe.
21)Bring in a stronger regulatory framework to ensure honest practice in the City of London and introduce new safeguards on mergers, takeovers and monopolies to protect our national industrial, technological and research and development interests.
22) Like other sections of British industry, however, the City was held back by restrictive practices until they were swept away in last year's "big bang". This has brought nearer the day when shares can be bought and sold over the counter in every high street. We have also given building societies greater freedom to make a wider range of financial services available to the average family.
23)XXXXXXXXX will restore the right of councils to decide their own policies and plans, which will be subject to the decisions of local people at annual local elections.
24)We will legislate to ensure that ownership and control of the press and broadcasting media are retained by citizens of Britain and to place limits on the concentration of owner ship
25)To build on the EC's Association Agreements with Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland so that we can welcome them to full membership by the year 2000.
26)We will continue to expand the number of students in higher education. We are abolishing the artificial 'binary line' between universities and polytechnics.
27) We will take 740,000 taxpayers out of taxation altogether by increasing the personal allowance and wife's earned income allowance by more than inflation. Married couples will have the option of splitting the married couple's allowance between them as they choose.
28)In order to get better standards we are liberating services from centralised control over capital. We will push forward our Private Finance Initiative to break down these old barriers.
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I'll give you all a clue, all lines are from either the tories or old labour.
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Labour (nap)
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More than half are labour but can you spot the tory lines?
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5, 13, 22 & 28 make sense so i'm thinking they're tory policies
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& 23
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If a politician wrote it, it's al bollocks, no matter which party it was, so I didn't read it.
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Please see Politics forum for the answers .
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