General Election 2010 What are the most important promises of the political parties?

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General Election 2010 What are the most important promises of the political parties?

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General Election 2010

What are the most important promises of the political parties?

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The Conservative Party – Most Important Promises

• Start to cut the amount the Government spends from 2010 to get rid of the money Britain owes by 2015.

• Increase money spent on health.• Allow charities, trusts, voluntary groups and co-

operatives to set up new Academy schools.• Allow charities, trusts, voluntary groups and co-

operatives to run other public services.• Stop the idea that everyone carries an identity card.• People who are married or in civil partnerships

should not pay as much tax.

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The Labour Party – Most Important Promises

• Wait until 2011 for the Government to spend less money and to halve what the UK owes in 4 years.

• Increase spending on the NHS and schools but freeze or cut spending in other areas from 2011.

• Ensure all people who suspect they have cancer get test results within one week.

• Hold a referendum (vote) on making the voting system to Parliament fairer by October 2011.

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The Liberal Democrats– Most Important Promises

• Make £15bn of spending cuts from where they do not affect people greatly to begin to get rid of the money which the UK owes.

• People will begin to pay tax when they earn £10,000 instead of £6,475.

• People who live in very large houses worth over £2 million will pay a special tax.

• Stop the idea of people having to carry identity cards. • Make people pay a tax on how much they earn instead of

Council Tax, which is based on the value of their property.• Write down all the rules of how Britain is ruled in a

Constitution (we are one of a very few countries who does not have one)

• Make the way we vote for Parliament fairer.

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The Green Party – Most Important Promises

• Reduce greenhouse gases by 90% by 2030.• Spend £45billion on clean sources of energy and

making people use energy efficiently.• Change the tax and benefits system so that everyone

is given a ‘Citizens Wage’.• Take away powers from Parliament and give them to

local councils.• Write down the rules of the way the UK is ruled in a

Constitution, including a list of all of the rights the people in Britain have.

• Start a fairer way of MPs being voted into Parliament.

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UKIP – Most Important Promises

• Leave the European Union and just trade with Europe.

• Everyone will pay the same percentage of tax and money for health and social security.

• Not allow anyone from abroad to come and live in Britain for 5 years.

• Set up a grammar school for clever children in every town.

• Stop ‘green’ taxes and wind farms.• Create an English Parliament of English MPs at

Westminster.