The Choice
Issue- The next election will be a big choice about the change we want for Britain. Labour offers change for the mainstream middle. The Conservatives offer change to benefit the privileged few - a change you can't afford.
Key points
- David Cameron and George Osborne have made the wrong judgements on the economy - on deregulation, on Northern Rock, on help for business and families. Now they threaten to choke off the recovery by cutting off support at the worst possible time. Their judgement is wrong on the recession, wrong on the recovery.
- The British people are right to be uncertain of what the Conservatives would do. The Conservatives have made promise after promise - but David Cameron has shown he will break a cast-iron guarantee.
- Labour will:
- guarantee an education or training place for young people up to 18; and a job or training place for 18-24 year olds out of work for a year
- guarantee diagnosis within one week if your GP suspects you have cancer
- free personal care at home for those with high needs
- no-nonsense intervention to tackle 50,000 problem families
- cut the deficit in half in four years.
- The Conservatives would:
- give a £200,000 tax cut to the 3,000 wealthiest estates
- cut £1,000 in child trust fund payments from families earning modest incomes
- scrap guarantees for cancer patients
- cut schools funding from next year and offer only a gamble - not a guarantee - for young people out of work
- cut the equivalent of 3,500 police from our streets this year.
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