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    The cheery thoughts thread

    Blair
    Brown
    War
    Rain
    Cold
    Inflation
    New Labour
    IR35
    Terrorists
    Crime
    Grime
    Slime
    Sleaze
    Sneeze
    Climate Change
    Tax
    Spend
    Tax again


    There you go. Should brighten up anyones day.

    #2
    **ATTENTION **Learn this list by heart and repeat when feeling down or disillusioned

    Regards
    Thought Police

    Labours Top 50 Achievements
    1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s
    2. Low mortgage rates
    3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.35
    4. Record police numbers in England, Scotland and Wales
    5. Cut overall crime by 35 per cent
    6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
    7. Best-ever primary school results
    8. Funding for every pupil in England to double by 2008
    9. Employment is at its highest level ever
    10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries
    11. 85,000 more nurses
    12. 32,000 more doctors
    13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
    14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
    15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
    16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time
    17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice
    18. Gift aid was worth £625 million to charities last year
    19. Restored city-wide government to London
    20. Record number of students in higher education
    21. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997
    22. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
    23. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
    24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
    25. On course to exceed the Kyoto target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2010
    26. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
    27. Over 30,000 more teachers in England schools
    28. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
    29. A million pensioners lifted out of relative poverty
    30. 800,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
    31. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
    32. Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships
    33. Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard
    34. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
    35. Banned fox hunting
    36. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
    37. Free TV licences for over-75s
    38. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
    39. Waiting times for operations halved
    40. Free local bus travel for over-60s
    41. New Deal - helped over a million people into work
    42. Over 1.5 million child trust funds have been started
    43. Free eye test for over 60s
    44. Five, six and seven year olds in class sizes of 30 or less
    45. Free entry to national museums and galleries
    46. Overseas aid budget more than doubled
    47. Cancer death rates down by 12 per cent, saving 43,000 lives
    48. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
    49. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
    50. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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      #3
      Originally posted by DimPrawn
      Blair
      Brown
      War
      Rain
      Cold
      Inflation
      New Labour
      IR35
      Terrorists
      Crime
      Grime
      Slime
      Sleaze
      Sneeze
      Climate Change
      Tax
      Spend
      Tax again


      There you go. Should brighten up anyones day.
      Missed a few.

      Immigration.
      Cultural Diversity.

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        #4
        Bird Flu
        Tsunamis
        Face Eating Super Bugs
        Identity Cards
        Congestion Charging
        Suicide Bombers

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          #5
          Originally posted by DimPrawn
          Bird Flu
          Tsunamis
          Face Eating Super Bugs
          Identity Cards
          Congestion Charging
          Suicide Bombers
          Not too sure how to blame nuLieBore for the first three. I'm sure if the Tories were in power, Labour would be claiming that it was all their fault.
          Drivel is my speciality

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            #6
            I'm not blaming New Lie. It's just there seems to be only two sources of misery in this world. Natural disasters and New Lie made ones.

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