1. The General Principles- We believe in working together with the people to solve problems such as the debt and wants the people to try and solve the problems and provide solutions by getting involved with politics and with the political system that governs them. We believe that the collectivist effort to solve a problem is the best method. Collective strength will overpower all our problems. Only together can we can get rid of this government and, eventually, its debt. Only together can we get the economy moving. Only together can we protect the NHS. Improve our schools. Mend our broken society. Together we can even make politics and politicians work better. And if we can do that, we can do anything. Yes, together we can do anything. So our invitation today is this: join us, to form a new kind of government for Britain. 2. Foriegn Policy- We are taking forward our shared resolve to safeguard the UK's national security and support our Armed Forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere. We are pushing for peace in the Middle East. We are maintaining a strong and close relationship with the United States. We support international efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. 3. International - The EU - We believe that in the crisis that the world is in today, the UK has to help out the poorest of the countries. We will honor our commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GNI on overseas aid from 2013, and to enshrine this commitment in law. We are encouraging other countries to fulfill their aid commitments. We will work to accelerate the process of relieving Heavily Indebted Poor Countries of their debt. We will support reform of global financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. 4. The Economic Crisis - Financial Stabilty Programme - We have set out a credible plan to tackle the deficit and debt. We will eliminate the structural deficit – the part that does not go away as the economy grows – by the end of the current parliament, with the main burden borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes. We have reformed welfare. To help small firms get the finance they need, we have got the banks to lend £190 billion of new credit to business this year. £76 billion of this lending will be to small businesses. 5. Health Care and the NHS - We are increasing investment in the NHS year after year. We are cutting the cost of NHS administration by £4.5 billion and reinvesting this money to support doctors and nurses on the front line. We are putting patients in charge of making decisions about their care. We are strengthening the power of doctors and nurses as patients' expert guides through the health system by enabling them to commission care on their patients' behalf. We will measure NHS success on the health outcomes that really matter to patients, not arbitrary Whitehall targets. We are investing a record £800 million in the best medical technology to advance diagnosis, prevention and treatment. 6. Immigration - The conservative party has set a cap on the non-Europeans be admitted into the country. They have tightened the border security against drugs and illegal activity. 7. Education - We are doubling the size of Teach First, which attracts top graduates to the teaching profession. We are allowing schools to reward good teachers and deal with under-performing teachers. We are restoring discipline by making it easier to search pupils for banned items. We are raising standards by reviewing the National Curriculum with teachers and experts. We are focusing the curriculum on subject content rather than prescribing how knowledge is acquired. We are rapidly expanding the academies programme, giving head teachers greater freedoms over teachers’ pay, the curriculum, control of budgets and structure of the school day. 8. The Environment - Global Warming - We have published the first White Paper on the natural environment in twenty years, containing a series of measures to protect biodiversity and wildlife. We will create new Green Area Designations to allow local people to protect the green spaces which are important to them. We have launched a national tree planting campaign – the Big Tree Plant – which has already planted 100,000 trees and aims to plant a million over the parliament. The money will be used to kick start restoration worth at least £600 million to improve the health of more than 880 lakes, streams and other water bodies. 9. Democracy - Devolution at all - We are promoting the radical devolution of power and greater financial autonomy to councils, local residents and community groups. We are abolishing Regional Spatial Strategies and returning decision-making powers on housing and planning to local councils, and have given councils new powers to help stop unwanted ‘garden grabbing’. We have scrapped Labour’s unelected tiers of regional government, transferring power back to local communities. We are creating directly elected mayors in the England’s largest cities, subject to confirmatory referendums and full scrutiny by elected councillors.
1. The General Principles - We believe in working together with the people to solve problems such as the debt and wants the people to try and solve the problems and provide solutions by getting involved with politics and with the political system that governs them. We believe that the collectivist effort to solve a problem is the best method. Collective strength will overpower all our problems. Only together can we can get rid of this government and, eventually, its debt. Only together can we get the economy moving. Only together can we protect the NHS. Improve our schools. Mend our broken society. Together we can even make politics and politicians work better. And if we can do that, we can do anything. Yes, together we can do anything. So our invitation today is this: join us, to form a new kind of government for Britain.
2. Foriegn Policy - We are taking forward our shared resolve to safeguard the UK's national security and support our Armed Forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere. We are pushing for peace in the Middle East. We are maintaining a strong and close relationship with the United States. We support international efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
3. International - The EU - We believe that in the crisis that the world is in today, the UK has to help out the poorest of the countries. We will honor our commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GNI on overseas aid from 2013, and to enshrine this commitment in law. We are encouraging other countries to fulfill their aid commitments. We will work to accelerate the process of relieving Heavily Indebted Poor Countries of their debt. We will support reform of global financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
4. The Economic Crisis - Financial Stabilty Programme - We have set out a credible plan to tackle the deficit and debt. We will eliminate the structural deficit – the part that does not go away as the economy grows – by the end of the current parliament, with the main burden borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes. We have reformed welfare. To help small firms get the finance they need, we have got the banks to lend £190 billion of new credit to business this year. £76 billion of this lending will be to small businesses.
5. Health Care and the NHS - We are increasing investment in the NHS year after year. We are cutting the cost of NHS administration by £4.5 billion and reinvesting this money to support doctors and nurses on the front line. We are putting patients in charge of making decisions about their care. We are strengthening the power of doctors and nurses as patients' expert guides through the health system by enabling them to commission care on their patients' behalf. We will measure NHS success on the health outcomes that really matter to patients, not arbitrary Whitehall targets. We are investing a record £800 million in the best medical technology to advance diagnosis, prevention and treatment.
6. Immigration - The conservative party has set a cap on the non-Europeans be admitted into the country. They have tightened the border security against drugs and illegal activity.
7. Education - We are doubling the size of Teach First, which attracts top graduates to the teaching profession. We are allowing schools to reward good teachers and deal with under-performing teachers. We are restoring discipline by making it easier to search pupils for banned items. We are raising standards by reviewing the National Curriculum with teachers and experts. We are focusing the curriculum on subject content rather than prescribing how knowledge is acquired. We are rapidly expanding the academies programme, giving head teachers greater freedoms over teachers’ pay, the curriculum, control of budgets and structure of the school day.
8. The Environment - Global Warming - We have published the first White Paper on the natural environment in twenty years, containing a series of measures to protect biodiversity and wildlife. We will create new Green Area Designations to allow local people to protect the green spaces which are important to them. We have launched a national tree planting campaign – the Big Tree Plant – which has already planted 100,000 trees and aims to plant a million over the parliament. The money will be used to kick start restoration worth at least £600 million to improve the health of more than 880 lakes, streams and other water bodies.
9. Democracy - Devolution at all - We are promoting the radical devolution of power and greater financial autonomy to councils, local residents and community groups. We are abolishing Regional Spatial Strategies and returning decision-making powers on housing and planning to local councils, and have given councils new powers to help stop unwanted ‘garden grabbing’. We have scrapped Labour’s unelected tiers of regional government, transferring power back to local communities. We are creating directly elected mayors in the England’s largest cities, subject to confirmatory referendums and full scrutiny by elected councillors.