Angela Eagle: Conservatives fail to offer anything new

Oct 12 2011 Wallasey News

A YEAR ago, the Tories gathered for their conference as a party of government for the first time since 1996.

They may not have won the election but they were in confident mood. Despite having announced cuts which went further and faster than those the last government had planned, the economy was still growing and unemployment was still falling.

Britain, they told us, was out of the danger zone. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

This year, the world looks very different. The doubt is beginning to surface, not only among their coalition allies but even in the minds of some Conservatives, about whether David Cameron and George Osborne are following the right path.

On issue after issue, the Tories show that far from offering anything new, they are the last gasp of the old ways which don’t work for most people and benefit only a privileged few.

Whether it’s their refusal to make the banks pay their fair share to clean up the mess they caused, their abandonment of young people and the scrapping of EMA and the future jobs fund or their dangerous and reckless reorganisation of the NHS one thing is clear – the Tories are out of touch and out of date.