Countdown to Blair and Brown's Legacy of failure
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown this is your legacy. This is how you two have destroyed Britain in 10 years.
BLAIR AND BROWN'S LEGACY OF 10 YEARS OF FAILURE - HITS 70
1. Blair's lies on Iraq about weapons of mass destruction
2. Tuition/Top Fees put hundreds of thousands of students going to university
3. Tony Blair is President Bush's Poodle - effectively not allowing Britain to have an independent foreign policy
4. Gun Crime Doubled since 1997
5. Violent Crime up 64%
6. Recorded Crime up 16.5% compared to 1997
7. 2.7 Million on incapacity benefit costs the taxpayer 12 Billion pounds
8. Council Tax up 80% since 1997
9. Costs to business caused by rep tape have increased by 50 Billion Pounds
10. Business Investment at an all time low
11. Numbers of people working for the public sector has shot up to 600,000 in 10 years
12. 13 Billion Pound deficit black hole in the public finances
13. Unemployment rising at 1.7 Million
14. Inflation at 4.8%
15. Interest rates double to over 5%
16. 1.3 Trillion pounds of debt in the British Economy highest ever!
17. 8 out of 10 hospitals in debt because of the government mismanagement of the NHS
18. 99 Stealth Taxes increases since 1997
19. 250,000 failed asylum seekers here that should have been deported.
20. 5 billion Pension raid by Gordon Brown wipes out 100 Billion pounds off Pensions schemes
21. 40% of Britain without an NHS Dentist
22. Average family paying �5,000 more in tax now then in 1997
23. Only 1% of crimes lead to a court appearance
24. The proportion of crimes solved by police is at an all time low 23%
25. 2 Million People without any pensions since 1997
26. Borrowing 155 billion pounds over 5 years
27. Productive growth one fifth of what was inherited- 1997 � 2.�% now �%
28. Migration watch estimates that illegal immigration is as high as 870,000. That�s 300,000 more than the official government figures
29. Immigration has tripled under Labour
30. Asylum Applications are almost 60% higher than they were in 1997
31. Only 1 in 5 failed asylum seekers is removed from the UK
32. Government said in 2004 that only 13,000 eastern Europeans would come to Britain the figure is over 600,000
33. Government talk hot air on the environment as carbon emissions double since 1997MRSA Super bug deaths double under Blair with 5,400 people dead.
34. Armed forces Cuts - 2,000 troops, one aircraft carrier, four destroyers, six frigates and 13 RAF squadrons
35. The French Navy is now larger than the Royal Navy (terrible)
36. 2,000 NHS Dentists walk out of NHS Dentistry thanks to the government�s new dental contracts in the NHS.
37. Increasing number of patients in dental care are going private with patients paying the NHS charges falling from expected �541 Million to �417 Million
38. 1.4 Million fewer people are without an NHS Dentist because of the dental contracts in one year from 2006-7.
39. The Royal College of Nursing estimated in August that 18,000 jobs have been cut from NHS hospitals in recent months
40. 81 Community Hospitals are still threatened by of cutbacks or closure, according to the Community Hospitals Association.
41. Bed cuts in NHS - 2,036 bed losses have already occurred since April, suggesting that up to 4,000 beds may be lost from the NHS over the whole financial year
42. This is on top of the 2,500 beds which were lost from NHS hospitals in 2004-05
43. 6,000 beds cut from NHS hospitals in 2005-06
44. In just three years, therefore, the NHS is set to lose 12,500 beds � a cut in capacity of 7 per cent.
45. With fewer beds and less money, hospitals have been forced to discharge patients too early, leading to a rocketing emergency readmission rate
46. Patients are discharged too early - End of 2003-04, around 5.5 per cent of all patients were readmitted to hospital as emergency cases 28 days after being discharged. However, since the financial crisis of 2004-05 and associated bed losses, the emergency readmission rate has accelerated to 7.1 per cent � and this increase shows no sign of halting.
47. Trainee doctors and nurses face unemployment: anywhere up to 16,000 of England's 20,000 nursing students may be facing unemployment, despite the fact that it costs up to �39,000 to train each nurse.
48. Social services departments faced a funding 'black hole' of �1.8 billion this year - a shortfall directly related to the NHS financial crisis.
49. Ministerial meddling: There have been ten major reorganisations of the NHS since Labour came to power. Each of these reorganisations has been costly: the merger of Primary Care Trusts and the regionalisation of Strategic Health Authorities in 2006 alone are together estimated to have cost �320 million
50. Waste: Labour's financial mismanagement has encouraged a culture of profligacy and waste within the NHS. The number of managers in the NHS is increasing almost three times as fast as the number of doctors and nurses
51. There are now 264,012 administrators in the NHS, compared to 175,646 beds.
52. In the last year alone, 5,000 more administrators than nurses were recruited.
53. By 2004-05 the extra cost of employing NHS administrators was almost �1.6 billion a year more in real terms than it was in 1999-2000
54. Inadequate planning: Labour's failure to pilot the new NHS staff contracts adequately has created a 'black hole' in NHS finances of �610 million
55. �220 million underestimated the cost of Agenda for Change �the pay deal for virtually all staff in the NHS except doctors and dentists
56. �90 million and the cost of the new GP contract underestimated the cost of the new contract for hospital consultants by �300 million.
57. Unfair funding: Labour's system of resource allocation means that the areas with most demand on their health services no longer receive the most money
58. Under Labour, too much money has been diverted from patient care by an NHS bureaucracy which has swelled its ranks by over 100,000 people since 1997
59. Labour's interference has now led to the tenth reorganisation of the NHS since it came to power nine years ago
60. Half of all tax credit payments are wrong and over �2bn has been lost to fraud and error
61. 43 Maternity units are under threat
62. 17 A and E departments are set to be downgraded or closed
63. 6,4000 newly qualified nurses, midwives and physiotherapists are unable to find jobs
64. More than 1 million wokers including nurses polic officers teachers have been sucked into the 40% higher tax bracket
65. Income and National Insurance are at it's highest for 20 years
66. The tax burden is now at it's highest level in history
67. This year you have to work for the taxman unitl june 3 before you start earning for yourself in 1997 it was may 23
68. The average home buyer now pays �1000 more on stamp duty tha in 1997
BLAIR AND BROWN THE FAILURE IN FULL
69. The tax burden is set to rise from 39.2% last year to 40.4%of GDP in 2008/9. That's a rise of over �17bn
70. 2,000 criminals being released early because the jails are full.
