David Cameron speech to candidates in his Witney constituency

David Cameron speech to candidates in his Witney constituency; - Initiatives, units, czars, strategies, partnerships, pilot programmes, roll-outs, co-ordination and evaluation, and at the head of this army of interventionism was the bureaucrat-in-chief, Gordon Brown / It was Brown not Blair who created the culture of targets that have blighted our public services, intended to show public money wasn't being wasted, they instead guaranteed that it was, undetermined professional discretion and made public servants accountable for politicians and managers, instead of the public / It was Brown not Blair who created the one-dimensional anti-poverty strategy that has seen the poorest in our society get poorer and youth unemployment rise, intended to lift millions out of poverty, it has instead left millions dependent on benefits, with a labour shortage filled by uncontrolled immigration, consequences we all see today - It was Brown who systematically blocked Blair when he at last realised that the only way to improve public services was to set them free from Whitehall control / The age of Labour's hyperactive state has failed to deliver the hopes of 1997, gun crime has doubled, violent crime has doubled, anti-social behaviour wrecks the quality of life of so many in our towns and cities / The NHS is suffering cut-backs and closures, demoralised workforce / Child poverty targets missed, more and more family lives blighted by family breakdown, entrenched poverty - Schools have done their best to cope with endless interference, instability, gimmicks from above, but we have fallen down international league table, thousands of our children leaving school without the skills needed to thrive in the modern world - As for welfare, remember the promise 'the end of welfare as we know it', far from being ended it is now a way of life for millions of people in our country, there are now 5 million adults on benefits, four million of whom want to and could work, if only they had th...
David Cameron speech to candidates in his Witney constituency; - Initiatives, units, czars, strategies, partnerships, pilot programmes, roll-outs, co-ordination and evaluation, and at the head of this army of interventionism was the bureaucrat-in-chief, Gordon Brown / It was Brown not Blair who created the culture of targets that have blighted our public services, intended to show public money wasn't being wasted, they instead guaranteed that it was, undetermined professional discretion and made public servants accountable for politicians and managers, instead of the public / It was Brown not Blair who created the one-dimensional anti-poverty strategy that has seen the poorest in our society get poorer and youth unemployment rise, intended to lift millions out of poverty, it has instead left millions dependent on benefits, with a labour shortage filled by uncontrolled immigration, consequences we all see today - It was Brown who systematically blocked Blair when he at last realised that the only way to improve public services was to set them free from Whitehall control / The age of Labour's hyperactive state has failed to deliver the hopes of 1997, gun crime has doubled, violent crime has doubled, anti-social behaviour wrecks the quality of life of so many in our towns and cities / The NHS is suffering cut-backs and closures, demoralised workforce / Child poverty targets missed, more and more family lives blighted by family breakdown, entrenched poverty - Schools have done their best to cope with endless interference, instability, gimmicks from above, but we have fallen down international league table, thousands of our children leaving school without the skills needed to thrive in the modern world - As for welfare, remember the promise 'the end of welfare as we know it', far from being ended it is now a way of life for millions of people in our country, there are now 5 million adults on benefits, four million of whom want to and could work, if only they had th...
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