In 1982, before he became an MP, Tony B said this:
“The European Economic Community takes away Britain's freedom to follow the sort of economic policies we need.”
In 1983 he said this to the electors of Sedgefield before he became their MP:
"We'll negotiate a withdrawal from the EEC... which has drained our natural resources and destroyed jobs".
On St Georges Day 1997, before he became Prime Minister Tony Blair said this in The Sun newspaper:
“On the day we remember the legend that St George slayed a dragon to protect England, some would argue that there is another dragon to be slayed: Europe.'
In 2005, Tony Blair said this at a meeting of European Union Heads of State:
“I am a passionate European. I always have been.'
No explanation necessary.
In 1992, Tony Blair promised to be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime".
In 2002, he said:
"We're the first Government since the war under which crime has fallen not risen."
Whereas, according to Home Office figures produced in July, 2004, since New Labour came to power, violence against the person increased by 90 per cent, sexual offences by 44 per cent, robbery by 51 per cent, total violent crime by 83 per cent and criminal damage by 37 per cent.
Over the same seven-year period, detection rates for violence against the person have fallen from 79 per cent in 1997 to 50 per cent, for sex crime from 77 per cent. to 39 per cent, for robbery from 27 per cent to 18 per cent, for burglary from 23 per cent to 13 per cent and for violent crime from 69 per cent to 47 per cent.
Since 1997, gun crime has doubled. It now stands at more than 10,000 a year in the UK. Serious wounding with firearms has more than doubled.
As of November, 2004, all recorded crime had risen 16 percent since New Labour took power.
As of 2005, one in four in Britain had had their "identity stolen" or know someone who had.
As of November, 2004, a teacher is assaulted every 7 minutes in a British school.
According to The Guardian of the 9th of August, 2004, officers at Holloway prison were cutting down 5 women A DAY from nooses.
In July, 2004, the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales admitted that 52 priests and church workers had been accused of sexual abuse against a child in 2003.
In July, 2003, according to a spokeswoman for Women Against Rape, recorded rapes had risen 82 percent since New Labour came to power.
In July, 2002, the Home Office revealed that, based on interviews with 7,000 women over the age of 16, 167 women are raped in England and Wales every day.
As of 2004, just 1 in 13 of the rape cases that came to court in Britain resulted in a conviction.
In January, 2004, according to the BBC, 59 per cent of the gang-rape victims in London were white and 62% of the rapists were black or Asian.
By August, 2003, one in seven of the prison population was a foreign national.
Since 1997, when New Labour came to power, the number of foreign women in British prisons had increased by 140 percent.
According to statistics provided by the document Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System produced by the Home Office in 2002, in the 3 year period, mid-1999 to mid-2002, a black person was 68 times more likely kill a white person in Britain than the other way around.
As of February, 2004, 17 percent of the prison population in Britain was black.
I'm willing to bet that you have never heard any MP tell you any of this, have you? In fact, you've probably heard them insisting that the precise opposite was true.
Truth is, folks, it's not just Tony B who lies, it's all of them.
1n 1994, Tony B said:
"I would expect ministers in any government I lead to resign if they lied to parliament."
No explanation necessary.
Tony Blair's 1997 Election Manifesto said:
"We will establish a Royal Commission to work out a fair system for funding long-term care for the elderly…. We are committed to an independent inspection and regulation service for residential homes".
Since which time around 90,000 places in care homes have been cut, with 10,000 being lost in 2003 alone.
On the 19th of April, 1997, in a speech to a Pensioners Rally, in the Millfield Theatre, Edmonton, Tony Blair said this:
"The Tories have betrayed Britain's pensioners. They have forced thousands of pensioners to sell their homes to pay for long-term care… Enough is enough. Pensioners deserve better than that."
Four years later a report commissioned by the Lib Dems demonstrated that, in just one year 2000-2001, 70,000 pensioners had been forced to sell their homes to pay for long term care.
As of 2003, except for Scotland, anyone with assets of more than £18,500 had to pay for their own care. As of 2003, 40,000 people were still having to sell their homes every year to pay for long term care.
The situation has not changed since then.
Tony Blair lied to Britain's pensioners in 1997.
In May, 1997, Tony B said this:
"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."
No explanation necessary.
In 1997, Tony B Liar said:
"I am determined to tackle the menace of drugs and the devastating effects they have on our communities".
As of 2005, 100,000 drug deals were taking place every day in Britain.
As of July, 2004, according to The British Crime Survey, 622,000 people were regularly taking cocaine in Britain.
In a March, 2005, report, the UN drugs watchdog, the International Narcotics Control Board, found that the UK came top of the league for amphetamine use and third for ecstasy.
As of 2005, 90% of heroin consumed in Britain and Europe came from Afghanistan. The amount entering Britain has increased 20-fold since Britain and America got rid of the Taleban.
According to the UN, in 2004, the UK had the largest rate of heroin seizures and the third highest number of heroin addicts in Europe.
According to a 2004 survey of 15 and 16 year-olds by the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs, 23% of boys and 16% of girls had used cannabis at least three times in the previous month.
According to the same research, 42% of boys and 35% of had tried illegal drugs at least once.
As of 2005, 3.2 million people in the UK smoke cannabis.
In 2004, Professor Robin Murray, a leading expert on psychosis, said that about 80 percent what of all new patients suffering from psychosis had reported a history of cannabis use.
As of 2003, more than 350,000 parents of British children were regular drug users.
As of 2004, according to the Shadow Home Secretary, Britain had more than 1 million class A drug users. According to David Blunkett, the number of "problematic, regular" class A drug users in Britain is 280,000. Which statement doesn't disagree, it just uses a few more creepy, misleading adjectives.
Anyway 280,000 is still way too many.
In 1997, Tony B said this:
"Our goal: to make Britain the best educated and skilled country in the world... every single part of our schools system must be modernised to achieve it.
Nearly 40 per cent of 11 year olds can't read, write or add up properly. 42nd in the world education league. This is the scandalous legacy not just of 18 years of Tory Government but of a country too often content to educate the elite and ignore education for all. Education, education, education.
Remember? We are launching the biggest assault on poor literacy and numeracy standards this country has seen. We are setting a target of 80% up to the standard in literacy, 75% for numeracy by the year 2002, and we'll keep on until every 11 year old in every school in every part of Britain gets the start in life that they deserve.
Under our proposals, no parent will have to pay more. Low income families will be entirely exempt from tuition fees. All students will repay only as they can afford to."
Low income families will be entirely exempt from tuition fees?
All students will repay only as they can afford to?
In 1992, 8 students filed for bankruptcy. According to the Student Loans Company, 899 filed for bankruptcy in 2003.
On the 18th of January 2001, the BBC website reported that, given five multiple choice answers, a survey of 200 pupils, aged between 11 and 18:
Half were unable to link Oliver Cromwell with the English Civil War and 17% thought he was at the Battle of Hastings;
40% did not know that Henry VIII had six wives;
34% thought he had eight;
Only 36% knew the exact dates of the First World War;
More than a quarter thought Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar was the Mary Rose;
60% did not know when the Romans ruled Britain;
49% were unable to date the Great Fire of London;
Over 50% could not name the reigning monarch the time of the Armada, with one in ten opting for King Harold.
As of 2004, 26% of schoolchildren were not taking GCSE history because their school timetable made it too difficult to arrange.
As of 2004, 30,000 pupils leave British schools every year without a GCSE.
About 50,000 British children were playing truant every week.
As of November, 2004, a teacher was assaulted in a British school every 7 minutes.
As of 2004, 179 British libraries had been closed since 1986. |
