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Oldham has done well under Labour in the last half of their term, some would argue that a lot of the money received has been spent on folly's but even so it did provide much needed jobs.
Under previous Governments we got very little money.
In the areas where new schools have been built the children attending them behave much better, just proves that if you have a school filled with buckets to catch the leaks moral suffers.
Some would argue that our troops would have been better employed bombing Oldham and starting afresh but improving things is better than nothing.

The future is going to be bleak no matter who gets in, North Sea Oil has been squandered instead of using the money to modernise and expand our industrial base, Triumph Motorcycles, Nissan etc. have shown that if we use the latest machinery we can compete with anyone in the World. The problem with British Industry in the past was relying on paying poor wages instead of modernising their machinery in order to keep costs down and improve quality.