Guess the party from the line in the manifesto 1979-1992

And again, numbered this time:


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.

if this is a quiz, why not try ChitChat. 

we are serious on here.

thank you.

Ok good idea.

If this is a quiz then ignore foreigners who ALWAYS poke their nose into OUR lifestyle!!!!
It looks to me as if it was BLAIRS lying machine to me, am I right?

bollockios, labour will be the eurosceptic ones, and conservative the ones about tax credits, because he wants to make some "clever" point.

ignoring the fact Labour used to be anti european when it was a trading zone, because free trade was against the socialist ideal.  as the EU descended into a subsidy, bureaucratic, undemocratic interfering nightmare, they supported it. 

when Conservatives spoke about tax credits, it was what it was supposed to be, paying less tax.  not the Gordon Brown nightmare of having half the working population declining overtime or promotion, or full time work because it effects their welfare, masquarading under the misnomer "tax credit".  a system that impoverishes a nation, and makes them more dependent on government, the nightmare that the West is trying to get out of, and Brown stuffed the UKs faces right into.

It looks to me as if it was BLAIRS lying machine to me, am I right?

as well as heavily implying there are some labour and some conservative, he clearly stated this covered manifestos from 1979 to 1992, the Kinnock and Foot era and well before Smith never mind Blair.

how savage was the lobotomy?

bazzer Ronnie obviously saw the clue I gave to the chit chatters while lurking over there. I agree my question was open to misunderstanding , but Ronnie is right when he says some of these lines came from Labour manifestos and some from Tory.

I'm not trying to make a 'clever 'point though I set this quiz to educate and hopefully encourage people to have faith in the left as before the labour party was hijacked by Tories they really have been proved to have had far superior policies that the Right could ever dream of as evidenced by what we see today following 30 odd years of right wing economics.

Bonus question for 10, before I give the answers , which politician paved the way for the propaganda machine which wiki describe just a bit of here:

The Sun became an ardent supporter of Margaret Thatcher and Conservative Party policies and actions, including the Falklands War. The coverage "captured the zeitgeist", according to Roy Greenslade, Assistant Editor at the time though privately an opponent of the war, but was also "xenophobic, bloody-minded, ruthless, often reckless, black-humoured and ultimately triumphalist."[23] One of the paper's best known front pages, published on 4 May 1982, appeared to celebrate the news of the torpedoing of the Argentine ship the General Belgrano during the Falklands War by running the story under the headline "GOTCHA".[24] The headline was changed for later editions when the extent of Argentine casualties became known.[25] Sunday Times reporter John Shirley witnessed copies of this edition of The Sun being thrown overboard by sailors and marines on HMS Fearless.[26]

These years were marked by "spectacularly malicious coverage"[27] of the Labour Party by The Sun and other newspapers. During the general election of 1983 The Sun ran a front page featuring an unflattering photograph of Michael Foot, then aged almost 70, claiming he was unfit to be Prime Minister on grounds of his age, appearance and policies, alongside the headline "Do You Really Want This Old Fool To Run Britain?"[28] A year later, in 1984, The Sun made clear its enthusiastic support for the re-election of Ronald Reagan as president in the USA. Reagan was two weeks off his 74th birthday when he started his second term, in January 1985.

On 1 March 1984 the newspaper extensively quoted a respected American psychiatrist claiming that British left-wing politician Tony Benn was "insane", with the psychiatrist discussing various aspects of Benn's supposed pathology.[29] The story, which appeared on the day of the Chesterfield byelection in which Benn was standing, was discredited when the psychiatrist quoted by The Sun publicly denounced the article and described the false quotes attributed to him as "absurd", The Sun having apparently fabricated the entire piece. The newspaper made frequent scathing attacks on what the paper called the 'loony left' element within the Labour Party[30] and on institutions supposedly controlled by it. Ken Livingstone, the leader of the left-wing Greater London Council was described as "the most odious man in Britain"[31] in October 1981.[32]

The Sun, during the Miners' strike of 1984–85, supported the police and the Thatcher government against the striking NUM miners, and in particular the union's president, Arthur Scargill. On 23 May 1984, The Sun prepared a front page with the headline "Mine Führer" and a photograph of Scargill with his arm in the air, a pose which made him look as though he was giving a Nazi salute. The print workers at The Sun refused to print it.[33] The Sun strongly supported the April 1986 bombing of Libya by the US, which was launched from British bases. Several civilians were killed during the bombing. Their leader was "Right Ron, Right Maggie".[34]

In January 1986 Murdoch shut down the Bouverie Street premises of The Sun and News of the World, and moved operations to the new Wapping complex in East London, substituting the electricians' union for the print unions as his production staff's representatives and greatly reducing the number of staff employed to print the papers; a year-long picket by sacked workers was eventually defeated (see Wapping dispute). That year, Clare Short attempted in vain to persuade Parliament to outlaw the pictures on Page Three and gained opprobrium from the newspaper for her stand.

During the 1987 general election, the Sun ran a mock-editorial entitled "Why I'm Backing Kinnock, by Stalin".

The answers to the quiz:

1)LABOUR 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)TORY 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.- Tory

3)TORY 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)TORY 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)LABOUR Give back to large district councils in England responsibility for education, planning, social services, local libraries and other local services.-Labour

6)LABOUR 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)LABOUR 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)TORY 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)LABOUR 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)LABOUR 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)LABOUR 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)LABOUR 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)LABOUR 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)TORY 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)LABOUR 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)LABOUR  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)LABOUR 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)LABOUR 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)LABOUR (obv) 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)LABOUR 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)LABOUR 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)TORY 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)LABOUR 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)LABOUR (obv) 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)TORY 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)TORY We will continue to expand the number of students in higher education. We are abolishing the artificial 'binary line' between universities and polytechnics.


27)LABOUR 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)TORY 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.

And the bonus question THATCHER of course [

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/01/rupert_murdoch_-_a_portrait_of.html

For me it is a shame that REAGAN was right, because I  as a psychiatrist
consider him to be a leader of the "loony right" and foreign to boot..