What has the labour goverment done for us?
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made me emigrate!\n\nsomeone answered that the nhs improved - how?? theres more jobs for managers and paper shufflers, and less money for equipment and doctors and nurses, and increasing infection rates.. so how is that improved. as for education improving.. again - how?? massive amounts of political correctness and huge class sizes and schools being closed and exams being dumbed down, labour politicicans wanting to shut down selective schools (that they all went to) on the grounds that they are 'unfair' to those who dont get in (does this mean that driving tests will get easier so that kids arent disappointed when they fail? i dont think so!), and kids leaving school who cant read or write, and having to pay for university.. this is an improvement???\nalso the welfare state is huge and unwieldy and costs so much its not true, with tax credits for this and pensions credits for that, all not enough of course - not for those who are in need.. those who can milk the system get as much as they want and more and fraud is out of control (i used to work in this field so trust me, i know) and costs millions. \nillegal immigration is way out of control and beaurocracy and crazy political correctness means people are just being let in and if caught, not sent home... oh unless you ahev been here for years paying your taxes and working legally and bringing up your kids in which case you are an easy target and you get sent back.. or if you have been living in zimbabwe and need to return due to fear for your life but your uk passport has expired, you cant come back then... this is better??\n\nat least maggie had some balls, more than tony blair. labour governments, well this one at least, benefit those people who cant look after themselves. the nanny state is ridiculous now, its like we cant be trusted to think for ourselves. under conservative governments the people who prosper are those who are capable or those who want to improve themselves.\n\n if you want increasing paperwork, small businesses closing down, an accountant instead of a surgeon at your local hospital, nurses getting more money being unemployed with a couple of kids than doing a job they love, police unable to arrest unless they think you are a suicide bomber, criminals not being locked up as theres not enough prison spaces for them, or getting away with it and sueing the person they burgled or who hit them back when they were being mugged, kids unable to speak or write english, no housing for those who need it but plenty for illegal immigrants, oh and the prime ministers wife with a taxpaid hair do (or rather 'hair-dont') who whilst going around drumming up support during the election is also busy fighting the cases of illegal immigrants appealing against being sent back and therefore fighting her own government (her matrix chambers, where she is a qc).... then sure! vote labour!! and watch more skilled people leave the country for other countries. those left will all vote labour as they will be those incapable of working and thus will need labour to stay in to keep signing their benefit books.. sweeping statement?? too right!!
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From the recent vote, Labor is in trouble, and rearranging a few deck chairs does not help.  I think Blair resigns by the end of the year.  I do not see either opposition party gaining control alone, and I do not see how the form a coalition, so Labor will stay in control.
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you should be able to do a search on that pretty easily. I think the anti feds wanted a government like they had in britain. with kings and such so the constitution was against thier plan. it's like modern day socialist in america. everyone wants to be a socialist if they are the ones making the rules and determining pay, nobody wants to be at the bottom but when you feel you have a chance to be at the top you might push a little harder to rule others
361008
Well in a capitalist system there are many losers the US government is a money making government that has its own agenda its not about you, look how our country was developed and the principles of their wealth. A person can have a vision but the person will need labor/money to achieve that vision so now that slave labor is no longer legal they must us the next best thing paid slave labor, people forced to work for minimum wage or less like many USA born citizens migrants they have no choice at the time so they will slave for the crumbs and no one thinks anything about it because we know they are getting paid the American workers need to wake up,our children's lives are at stake, we need to curtail the migrants movement and force the push on minimum wage
865764
Yikes!\n\nSome were very effective and some didn't work at all.  One political change that was not very effective was the rise of the progressive movement and other third parties.  They were never able to break onto the national scene.  Likewise the Socialists.\n\nThe federal level took a stronger role in corporate area forcing the breakup of trust and the implementation of a more regular tax system.\n\nThere are tons more but you get the idea.
309457
People are good. \nThe govt need to change its attitude.
789594
Hit it right on the head. I was in England a while back and there was an issue where people were pissed because a stripper had her breast enlargement paid for via the health care system. Her claim was that it helped her earn more money. People here (in the US) need to stop trying to get the government to pay for everything. If a person will just get a job they can take care of their needs. People who can not work for legit reasons I have no problem with helping but the idea that everything should be taken care of by the gov is a socialist view. I do not want to live in that type of world. Survival of the fittest or at lest the hardest working works for me.
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Its all about money; it seems to solve all the problems (and lets face it, it does). We'll have to attack the top layer itself, not just the lower levels. We have to reform the houses of the parliament if we want to set a precedent. How, i dont know. Will take some more thinking.
912912
The government is over the administration.  We have our national, state and city government.  We vote those to govern and in turn those we vote in, oversee the administrative part.
168297
First of all, ask your boss.\nThen, I may seek help from the labour union.
1096810
Well wait for the next one on the Republic, this will get through.\n\nHopefully we can have one on the new industrial relations law.\n\n (former Howard supporter)
788258
The labour movement was not organised then, so employers had control and could set wages, working condiitons and hours.  If the worker didn't like it they could only leave, but there wasn't a lot of point in leaving as all jobs had similar conditions.
568559
The Socialist system, like what the UK has, is one of the best.  It mixes with democracy providing freedoms, yet, the government cares for you.  \nI like Socialism as i think that the Government is more responsive to you.
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I'm not English, I'm Welsh.\n\nBut the same problems that you have in England we have in Wales.  \n\nToo much immigration, not enough jobs, not enough affordable homes, people living below the poverty line, politicians who don't give a damn, under funded health service.\n\nIf things dont get better I'll be voting BNP and thats a real shocker as we're all devout Labour/Socialists round here.  But we've seem the mess that so-called "Labour" (Nye Bevan would be spinning in his grave at that title being applied to Blair and his cronies) have made of this country.  No thanks.
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Most people today have really no idea what the unions fought for and gained for working people both here in the US and in the UK where I am from origonally, we have a standard of living now that makes people think they really don't need to pay for protection from their employers, what they don't realise that in the last twenty years or so there seems to have been a shift in the balance where employers are now being able to get away more in terms of benefits and general treatment of workers, in the UK the unions were very strong right up until the early eighties, then Mrs Thatcher basically changed certain laws which virtually put a strangle hold on the unions makeing them less effective and changing peoples attitudes towards unions, people were then asking "why do we need unions, they can't do anything" so now you have a generation who don't know any better,  do not understand and as you say take for granted their current standard of living, admitidly in the seventies the unions, especially in the UK became so powerfull that the balance of power was firmly in their favor and resulted in many industries being damaged by this resulting in a total loss of confidence in British products at home and abroad.\nWe are now in a new industrial era both technologically and politically, western countries such as the US and UK have to be twice as efficient and inovative to be able to compete with the new developing countries like China and India, where people have nothing in terms of workers rights, and employers can just about do anything they like.\n\nBut I fully agree with your sentiments, explotation of workers back in those dark days of the early to mid part of the last century seem along way behind us, but could quite easily be back over a space of time that workers today would never even notice it happening, history informs us of the mistakes we make so we hopefully do not repeat the same things twice,  therefore the history of explotation on ordinary working people should be part of the education system.
779749
This government has had policies in place for years that can place any person under the control of the authorities .\nGet use to it .
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We are the government. If you want to make a difference vote. Keep up to date on politics. Know what's going on around you. Education is the key. If you want things to get better educate yourself and your children.