Why not to vote labour

[Tash.]

Over my dead body will me or any of my family vote for them, I can't get a job because of them...

I highly doubt it is solely the labour parties fault you cannot get a job. It is the fault of the global recession and probably your lack of experience, which applies to most if not all young people. Labour have actually done alot to help people like yourself in the form of apprenticeships, perhaps look into these. They are very good.

[Jordy]

I highly doubt it is solely the labour parties fault you cannot get a job. It is the fault of the global recession and probably your lack of experience, which applies to most if not all young people. Labour have actually done alot to help people like yourself in the form of apprenticeships, perhaps look into these. They are very good.

There is also record youth unemployment...

[Tash.]

There is also record youth unemployment...

Which, unless you are severely warped in the head, you cannot blame the Labour party for solely. All the major economies have bad unemployment, it was inevitable.

Oh and I aren't suggesting anyone is warped in the head, merely misinformed.

[Jordy]

Which, unless you are severely warped in the head, you cannot blame the Labour party for solely. All the major economies have bad unemployment, it was inevitable.

Oh and I aren't suggesting anyone is warped in the head, merely misinformed.

We were the last of the major nations to emerge from the economic downturn, Gordon Brown is no economic guru. I never have and never will blame Labour for the economic downturn, just their handling of it.

[Catzsy]

There is also record youth unemployment...

Interesting you should say this. Tbh all the parties manipulate the figures to suit themselves

A few facts -


“Under Labour, youth unemployment has reached over 900,000, with one in five young people unable to find a job.”

The latest statistical summary from the ONS headlines youth unemployment as that affecting 18-24 year-olds, of whom there are 715,000. However, if you look at the figure for 16-24-year-olds (and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t) it’s 200,000 higher, backing up the Tories’ claim. But, but, but. Contained within the 915,000 young unemployed are more than a quarter of a million full-time students. They’re included on this measure of unemployment because they are actively looking for, but say they haven’t been able to find, work. If they were excluded, the 16-24-year-old unemployed total would instead be 653,000. Nothing wrong with the Tories quoting the higher figure. But when you think of young people languishing without work, a student who can’t find a part-time job isn’t perhaps what you’d have in mind.

It’s also worth remembering – as the Conservatives yesterday promoted a poster with a picture of Gordon Brown saying “I caused record youth unemployment” at Labour’s manifesto launch – that comparable youth unemployment figures only go back to 1992. So although the high youth jobless tally is nothing for Labour to be proud of, the “record” excludes much of the recession counts under the last Tory administration.


“And we will raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m to help millions of people who aspire to pass something on to their children, paid for by a simple flat-rate levy on all non-domiciled individuals.”

Millions of people may well aspire to pass riches on to their children – but how many of them would actually be helped by the Tories’ policy to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m?
The Treasury estimates a grand total of 11,000 estates would benefit from the increased threshold – 8,000 of them worth up to £1m and 3,000 worth over £1m.So far short of the millions the Tories suggest.

“Recorded violent crime against the person has risen sharply under Labour”

The two main sets of violent crime statistics show completely opposite trends.
In the blue corner, recorded crime figures – which are affected by changes in the way crimes are counted by the police – do show a rise. But in the red corner, the British Crime Survey, which asks people about their experiences of crime, shows violent offences have in fact decreased by more than 40 per cent.

This is politics, you can’t really blame the Tories from only quoting the statistics that are most useful to them…except they’ve been, specifically, warned not to by the head of the UK Statistics Authority.


“One in six children in the UK now lives in a workless household – the highest proportion of any country in Europe.”

True, according to European statistics. The latest figures available are for 2008 and show that 16.4 per cent of children in the UK live in a workless household, the highest figure in Europe.
But this figure has fallen from 18.9 per cent in 1997, or one in five children. And, as FactCheck found in 2007, this does not take into account the social differences such as the number of lone parent families in the UK, which the Office for National Statistics calculated to be 12 per cent of UK households in 2009.

It pays to look at all the parties claims objectively whether you support them or not.

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[lazerman]

Too many people in this country, we cant support everyone, good choice is not to let any immigrants in other than skill workers who will actually work!!!! .

[Catzsy]

Too many people in this country, we cant support everyone, good choice is not to let any immigrants in other than skill workers who will actually work!!!! .

And how is that a reply to my post? @ mallett - oops not a very good spoof? Sack the proof reader!

[lazerman]

ops, quoted wrongly :S lol

[Catzsy]

ops, quoted wrongly :S lol

Okay no problem - I have to say I was somewhat confused there for a minute.