BassClef
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 Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 12:42 pm Post subject: David Cameron promises fantastic hope for Britain's future |
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In his first speech of 2010, David Cameron explains why the country needs a change of leadership (excerpts):
| Quote: | David Cameron's New Year Pre-Election Speech
Saturday, 2nd January, 2010
http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2010/01/David_Cameron_We_cant_go_on_like_this.aspx
It's a brand new year.
A new decade is fresh before us.
This time always comes with a sense of hope.
Hope that successes can be built upon; failures can be learned from...
...new ideas started; a new course charted.
But in 2010, we can do more than just hope.
The next general election is no more than 153 days away and I don't think it can come soon enough.
Let's make this the year for change – the year when the positive defeats the negative.
Because we can't go on like this. We need change to get the country back on its feet
And that change must be based on the values of responsibility and aspiration.
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We can't go on with an old-fashioned left-wing class war on aspiration from a government that has seen the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
We can't go on with the old style of politics that divides our country instead of uniting it.
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We can’t go on with another five years of Gordon Brown.
We can't go on like this.
This is no time for more of the same.
We need change to get our country back on its feet.
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It's because we are progressives that we will protect the NHS.
In its bricks and mortars, care and compassion, it is the embodiment of fairness in our society.
We recognise its special place in our society so we will not cut the NHS; we will improve it for everyone.
It's because we are progressives that we will support aspiration so that people from every background, not just the rich, have the chance to get on in life.
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We will fight back against the root causes of deprivation – drug addiction, alcoholism, indebtedness, failing prisons.
It's because we are progressives that we will support responsibility and strong families so we help mend our broken society and tackle the crime and misery it brings.
A decade of big government and blunt, bureaucratic control has undermined responsibility and made our social problems worse, not better.
We are determined to forge a new direction.
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As we do this we will redistribute power from the political elite to the man and woman in the street.
Within months of a Conservative victory there would start the most radical decentralisation of power this country has seen for generations.
Government will enter a new era of transparency.
And a strong, unbroken line of democratic accountability will be restored between the people and those that make the decisions that affect their lives.
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But I know people have heard this sort of talk before.
Yet nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes.
So why now?
Why should people trust this change?
It's because of the changes we have already made...
...because of the leadership the Conservative Party has shown.
We have shown over the past four years that we can make change happen.
We are showing today the leadership the country needs to get the change it so clearly wants...
...leadership that is modern, strong, decisive, united.
We have opened up our party and have more women candidates and candidates from ethnic minorities ready to bring their expertise to help change this country.
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When the expenses scandal broke, we were the first to pay money back, first to publish our expenses online and first to commit to cutting the cost of politics.
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And I can announce today that if we win this year's election, I will invite leaders of the main opposition parties to attend the war cabinet on a regular basis so they can offer their advice and insights.
When a nation is at war, it needs to pull together.
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So let's face this new year with confidence, optimism and hope.
And let's make 2010 the year for change. |
As we can see, David Cameron has made some great promises for Britian's future...
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