This General Election will shape our future and we all have a choice to make.
Hull has been transformed since 1997. The number of pupils gaining 5 good GSCEs has gone from just 20% to over 65%; the number of patients waiting over 13 weeks for treatment has fallen by 90%; 20 new Children’s Centres have been opened and extra police and PSCOs have helped to reduce crime dramatically both nationally and locally..
All these achievements would be at risk under a Conservative Government.
Britain is at a turning point. As we emerge from the global recession, we have a choice to make. The Tories would have let the recession run its course repeating the devastation of the 80s and 90s. Cameron and Osborne almost uniquely in the Western World called for spending cuts at the height of the recession. Now they advocate deep cuts over the coming year thus jeopardising the recovery. The Party that gave us 2-year NHS waiting lists, high crime rates, pensioner poverty and crumbling schools say they’ve changed. They haven’t.
We have a choice between the age of austerity under the Conservatives and an age of opportunity under Labour.
The Liberal Democrats can’t win a general election (which is just as well given their plans to abolish the Child Trust Fund, legalise cannabis and restrict the use of the DNA database which has helped the police solve so many crimes). A vote for them will let in the Tories.
Vote Labour for jobs and growth, to secure the recovery and protect public services.