There are two Hartlepool's, the one I grew up in with shite schools, lack of pre and after school support, no such thing as family tax credits, surestart, and minimum wage and the other one a great majority of this board appear to have grown up in

But don't worry, if Cameron gets in, bang goes family tax credits, surestart and NHS investment and lets not forget which party opposed the minimum wage

Go on, guess

I wish I knew what ERS was, but I doubt it isn't income tax, so therefore they didn't increase income tax

And of course no other party every takes the piss once they get in, do they!


Mind I'll give you this Kev, recessions under the Tories were much more noble, weren't they?

The NHS....? unless you've got a car, it's going to take a bit of time and money to get to a hospital ... under a Labour governemnt. All in the name of 'progress'.

i see on the fail website our little leprechaun is going to fight for the steelworkers who are going to lose their jobs at the pipemill,that's them fooked then

Don't you ever look at your pay slip then?? Look under 'deductions.' Income tax and then ERS, used to be known as National Insurance. It's a Government payment supposedly to pay for pensions and NHS. They knew they were going to tax people more, they just did it through the back door, whilst firmly denying they would ever do so.

Of course all the Governments take the piss but this one takes the piss AND the bleedin' biscuit.

And as for NHS investment, where's the billions they poured into yet another failed IT scheme??

The improved education standards is a good one, when A level pass rates have attained a percentage usually only seen in countries election turnouts where a despot is standing, it makes a mockery of previous pass rates. I suspect that the number of kids good enough to warrant the grades is the same as it's always been, the rest are all padding to justify the continued existence of all the former polytechnics elevated to university status.