This video was shown in the conference hall before Cameron made his closing speech. Particularly love the bricks breaking away from Brown's face although the font in the section afterwards is a bit tacky. Still pretty good though -
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Hadn't seen that before. Nice one.
Thanks - good video.
No worries
It is good. Credit where credit is due. And I didn't think any of it was tacky.. the font was fine. Easy to read, clear and saying the right things.
The one thing I was sad to see missing (unless I missed it) next to "the poor getting poorer" was "the rich getting richer".
I mean this next bit in a constructive way Outcast, as you know me well enough by now to realise.... not just the moan of a Scottish Nationalist....
Just how on earth does he hope to turn any of these soundbites into reality?
I'd love to go through them with you... things like "welfare dependency to jobs for all who can work"... and "irresponsibility to responsibility".... how? where? when? ...
Well, you get my drift. It all sounds good, and inspiring and perfect for its positioning in the conference.... but is it for real and if so, how?
Just think the font in the second half looks like it was done by a 4yr old on MS word!
Not sure how well that would have gone down to a Tory crowd.
OK so they are very soundbitey. The hope was he'd then reveal some policy in his speech but he disappointed a bit on that front.
I would try to go through all of them but the effort and space is beyond me atm. I'll pick one: on the welfare/jobs issue he has laid down some plans:
Reassessing all those on incapacity so those who can work go on job seekers. That way they are paid less and have to at least make some sort of effort to find work. In addition the three strikes policy should encourage more people back to work:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-unveil-three-strikes-rule-for-benefit-claimants-768565.html
LOL. A 4 year old on MS Word? Actually, I couldn't have done any better. Says it all, doesn't it!
Fair enough on that policy Outcast. I know something about this as I work in a company that does this kind of work. A couple of years ago I was asked to design and run a pilot course for people who had been on Incapacity Benefit and were now wanting to return to work.
The course was a big success, but the after course job search was a nightmare. In a jobs climate far more favourable than that of today's we had massive problems finding work for people who had been sick.
It wasn't for the want of them trying. No one HAD to do the course and no outcomes were demanded. It's just that employers are very reluctant to employ people with epilepsy, diabetes, recovering from heart problems or cancer, or mental health or alcohol problems. Likewise it's hard as hell to get a job for someone who has been in prison, on drugs, or simply been unemployed for a long time for whatever reason.
Very often the people are willing enough to work, employers just won't give them a chance.
OK. That's fair enough. Why should they? Time is money these days and there is no time for sentimentality. You do the job, you're never off sick and you hit and beat the targets or your no use to an employer.
But it still leaves all the political leaders with a huge headache of how to turn the soundbites into action. (It's not exclusively a Tory problem, except it will be in June!
I always used to wonder, when Brown went on about getting Long Term Unemployed back into work, how many of them he would have employed in the Treasury. The answer was none.
Sorry!
I'll keep it short considering the time:
There will always be problems but is one area where I think the Tories have really got it right. Should get at least a fair few back into work and will be well timed as will probably come into practice as firms start hiring again.
Unfortunately there will always be problem cases but one of Labour's biggest failings was attempts to micro-manage and solve every problem. While it may seem harsh it is unrealistic to try to solve every case.
Soundbites are a problem but am praying (like many other tories) that he has policy to back it up. We shall see...
OK... we'll wait and see...I could be wrong but I predict that it will take a few years before people are starting to employ again.... and when it happens it won't be the lame and the walking wounded that will be at the top of the pile for jobs.
Of course it will save money to put them on the JSA level of benefit, but it will raise the unemployment figures a lot. The reason that some of them were on the "sick" in the first place was a Thatcherite policy to hide the level of unemployment, reported monthy, in the sick bay figures which were not reported at all.
Of course the first person to die while being pushed into work will be a huge embarrassment for whichever party is in government.
Mistakes will be made, and a desperate target hunting junior in the DWP will sooner or later force a seriously ill person to do something they just aren't capable of doing.
Of course the Labour policy and the Tory policy on this are more or less identical (having been generated from the same source).
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