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* 1,100 new schools built or old schools rebuilt good
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And how are these being paid for? By cold, hard cash or by some dodgy PFI scheme where the money is spread out over 20-30 years and off the books to try and make the national deficit even less scary than it is.
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* 24 hour drinking laws, sale of alcohol on a Sunday
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Yep the liberalisation of drinking laws has been a great success, you only need to go down the local high street each Friday or Saturday night to see how the British have taken to the continental drinking culture.
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* Lowest UK murder rate for over 20 years
* 14,000 more police officers on the streets
* There are more police on our streets than ever before, up 14,000 since 1997
* Police pay up 27% in real terms
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Hmmmm, more police but less than ever actually doing 'policework' thanks to reams and reams of paperwork foisted on them. Murder might be down but violent crime is up.
If Labour are such friends of the Police and law and order try checking out some of the Police blogs to see how much support they are giving them in their quest for re-election.
Murders may well be down thanks to improvements in medical care, wounds that would have been fatal 5-10 years ago are now mostly survivable, which leads me on to.
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* A vastly improved NHS service
* The largest hospital building programme since the NHS began: 149 hospitals built or being built, the Tories built one.
* Nurses pay increased by 58%
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And a huge increase in the number of managers and the cost of them to the service. Plus as in schools most of these are being paid for by costly PFI schemes.