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Originally Posted by the truth

NO ONE will touch Cameron he will win easily, only ukip will steal a few percent off them
bottom line is new labour were the worst government in british history and not only have we not forgotten we havent forgiven and labour haven't learned a damn thing, the economy and the nhs is safer in tory hands

I don't agree at all, all govts; get things wrong and the main thing that was wrong with the Blair years was the selling off of gold reserves and the fact that Tony Blair operated in the main a milder form of Conservative govt;
For me,had I been Labour supporter in 1997, (I was only 5 at the time),I would have felt he squandered massively the chance,with massive overall majorities, to really reward and protect those who had stuck with Labour all through the bad times.

However, on many things it was a good period of govt;the NHS was invested in again, more Nurses and Doctors and it was brought back from the crippled state it was left in by the 18 year run of Conservative govt; to 1997.
No matter the problems in the NHS and the mistakes made still in it, that is a fact.
Which it again needs done after only 5 years of this govt.

The winter fuel allowance for pensioners was a great move, as was pension credit taking place from being aged 60 onwards and also the cold weather payments, only around £8 to £9 for 7days continuously freezing weather under the Conservatives but increased to £25 under Labour.
Bringing in the minimum wage, against all odds and warnings of mass unemployment if they did.
However, they should have set it up that it rose more than it has.

Until the banking crisis and then the worldwide global crisis and subsequent recession, there had been 10 years of continuous growth in the UK.
Yes, the banks should have been regulated stronger but no one could have foreseen that crisis coming,no one did really across the financial world, and in fact David Cameron and the then Conservative opposition,actually wanted less regulation of the Banking industry not more.

Contrast just those few things with this heartless bunch of cowards who can only hit the weakest, poorest and most vulnerable with some of the most cruellest testing for benefits and general policies ever applied to people sick and disabled.
Not to mention at length the obscene bedroom tax/charge.

With also the mess of their first 3 and a half years where they eroded the growth and recovery in place when they took over after coming out of the recession in May 2010, and had in the UK for that 3 and half years at best with tiny growth or no growth at all.
Contrast that with their in part unjust austerity measures that have hit severely public services and hit the most vulnerable citizens worst of all.
Measures that they said would clear the deficit by 2015, yet which have only barely halved it, even after a manipulation of how the deficit is measured now.

Contrast that with this Chancellor,never known before, having to downgrade every target he set himself at every budget and autumn statement for over 3 years in a row,almost being a laughing stock as to his judgement of the economy.
I will leave the NHS aside in the main for judgement, as there are problems all over the UK with the NHS,however the top down re-organisation was unnecessary and wrong as no voter got the chance to or did vote for same.
David Cameron barefaced lied to the voters as to that re-organisation.

I know which govt; I think is the worst ever and it for sure is not Labour,it is this heartless shower in now.

I will never believe, and it seems neither will the voters believe overall, that the NHS is safe in Conservative hands,also I am not fooled by all this great news appearing around 6 months before an election either.
My guess is, were the Conservatives to win in May,we would soon hear of a fallback again and more downgrading of targets.

I was a Conservative supporter, I have never however felt I could trust them with the NHS,which was why I voted Lib Dem in 2010.
Now, I don't believe a word David Cameron says and I will never even trust Nick Clegg's Lib Dems again for his tuition fees turnaround and disgraceful betrayal of trust to those who did trust him and supported him.

For me, those 2 leaders are massively tarnished and so for me the new boy gets a chance, namely Ed Miliband, who at least accepts Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown,got a lot wrong when in power and I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he will learn from all that too.

A lady a couple of years ago, who is around 80 now,does not like Labour,has only once or twice before voted labour,told me,she felt this was the most cruel,awful govt; she had lived under.
She asked me how long had it to go in power,I said till May 2015, all she wants is it gone.

I really believe,along with her, enough will, in the voting booths at that last minute, decide to get this govt; out.
More of the same austerity and bashing of the weakest from this govt; would be a disaster in my view, and I hope to all powers that be that this procratinating and near hopeless PM is gone in May, and his band of heartless cowards with him too.