NEWSPAPER reports that, just nine months after its launch, the Tories have ordered copies of the 'Common Sense Revolution' to be pulped, show how, when placed under the most minimal of scrutiny, their whole programme falls apart. Clearly, if elected, they would be a disaster.
Despite abandoning their pledge to reduce taxes, Michael Portillo and William Hague have replaced it with a promise to slash at least £16 billion from schools, hospitals and the fight against crime.
They may be quietly trying to bury the Common Sense Revolution, but they remain impaled on their public spending cuts guarantee.
Tories up and down the country must now explain which teachers they would lay off, which hospitals they would close and how much they would take away from police budgets. I note the Tory MP wannabee for Bolton North East says the massive investment of cash for schools will not make a difference. Is that so? Why is it then that teachers and teachers unions have welcomed the money?
More to the point, what do the Tories propose instead? They can't match this funding so how the Tory candidate thinks education standards will be improved by spending less as his party proposes to do does not make sense.
The Tories had 18 years in office and, in all that time, didn't spend anything like the money Labour is now spending and did not achieve anything like the standards. They failed miserably.
K Francis
Dunbar Drive
Bolton
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