The Great Competition?

So, here we are, in the big run up to a supposed May 6th General election and the Labour party are still desperately trying to claw in voters. Recently I read a rival blog, of whose I shall not reveal, on which the labour HQ's new campaign of pictorial Labour achievements was written about favourably. Basically, in this latest 'genius' idea (oh! how sarcasm does not work through the written word!), fans send photos of hospitals, schools and most likely benefit and job centres to HQ, who post them around like propaganda. Well, perhaps I shall create a photomontage just for their own benefit. It should include the following :-


- Hospitals desperately lacking in utilities and resources as wards are overstretched and bursting at the seams.

- Pictures of Wooten Bassett and British soldiers; the icons that have come to encapsulate British politics since 2001.

- A faultering education system; just the other day 3,000 students took an A-level exam that they had not been taught how to answer (yes, the fault lies with the exam boards, but how can this happen?!)

- An economy that has had 'equivalent of a major heart attack', to paraphrase Andrew Grice (The Independent) with a 0.1% growth rise, instead of the 0.5% originally expected. The 'Boom and Bust' Brown aimed to destroy could be back upon us later this year.

- Social services that are grossly ran by statistics and figures rather than realities; overwhelmed by paperwork and bureaucratic conformity. 1/3 of a sample 479 incidents last year were incorrectly filed by Police - most likely due to unachievable targets.

- Whilst services are on my mind, why not throw in some pictures of lavish and luxury items and houses  of M.P's, paid for by tax payers; of which the Labour party was complacent in noticing and dealing with.



Now I know, I could go on. And I know that if I did, I would only make people shrug and nod. I also understand that a lot of things were not necessarily directly caused by a Labour government. However, since 1997, Labour have had ample opportunity to right wrongs and prevent catastrophes and perhaps even negate the harsh effects of the recession. But who knows? What is done is done, and what is certain is that someone must fix these things. Its all very well saying 'we did this, oh remember that...' but this is a time in which we need to move forward at rapid pace. Just like a victim of a heart attack; you wouldn't look back to the times when you felt certain something was going to go wrong, would you?