Cameron's plan to get Labour elected again.

[Gromit]

The Tories have finally come up with some policies.
So vote Conservative for:

� Easier for your employer to sack you
� Health and Safety at work laws to be scrapped
� Working time regulation to be scrapped
� Scrap Laws to prevent banks from money laundering
� Care Home regulations to be scrapped

and rather bizarrely...
� Horse passports should be scrapped

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2007/08/12/ntory212.xml

It's an election winner Dave - for Labour!

Does any of that get your vote?

[China Doll]

I am sick and tired of all those horses in the que at check in lines so I'm going blue... Also I hear it'll have a great effect on housing prices in the south east and it'll stop immigration and druggies are scum etc....

[jno]

An alluring programme, if only I had a maidservant to fire. And we're going to be flooded with asylum-seeking horses from the continent?

[China Doll]

Those care homes have always been a bit too touchy, feely to my way of thinking too.... Bring back capital punishment, hangings too good for them etc...

[flip_flop]

It all depends on where in the political spectrum you tend to be, and certainly for those of a left persuasion the bullet points you give above Gromit would appear to be scary.

However, once a bit of further digging is done, those of us of a right of centre persuasion can see that scrapping some bureaucracy will make our businesses a better proposition to deal with.

As it stands at the moment we are slipping down the league table of countries that are good to do business with, which will inevitably lead to a negative impact on our economy.

Plus, as a Tory, I am bloody pleased he has at long last started to generate some policies that will appeal to me: all the tree and hoody hugging was getting right on my tits.

Anybody who isn't right/right of centre should also be pleased that the tories are developing some decent policies, becuase it means at least Labour might actually have some opposition from HM official opposition party!

[OBonio]

May I rephrase some of these :

1) Easier to sort the wheat from the chaff
2) Empowerment of common sense
3) Work what you want to
4) Remove ineffective laws
5) Ditto 4

not sure about point 6, but I guess it's costing a lot to run and achieving very little.

Saying that, I'm not sure Dave has quite got the vote from me yet. A few more of these types of decisions, and he may win me over.

[jake-the-peg]

Hang on Grommit aren't you jumping the gun a bit here?

Actually reading the article these proposals seem to come from chief Tory right wing nut and official alien - John Redwood. We seem only to have the Torygraph's assurance "David Cameron is believed to be fully behind the plan" - believed by who exactly?

This looks to me to be no more than wishfull thinking from the right.

And you got everybody so excited!

Doubtlessly hoodies will be back on the hugging agenda before the week is out as DC attempts to slap them back into line again

[Gromit]

jake-the-peg

"...the article these proposals seem to come from chief Tory right wing nut and official alien - John Redwood."

Apologies if this is jumping the gun a bit but Redwood is the Tory's Economic Policy Chief.

Here is the Mails version of events...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=474773&in_page_i d=1770

[Gromit]

Here is its correct title...

He was appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party's new Policy Review Group on Economic Competitiveness by Cameron in December 2005.

[China Doll]

I thought you could opt out of the working time regulations anyway so what's the point in scrapping that?

I see the public sector is getting blamed for all the ills as well in the Mail article... Shame I can't respond to that either. Probably best for my blood pressure though.

[jake-the-peg]

Ahh I see - The Telegraph article just says the proposals were from John Redwood.

Planning breaks for new nuclear power stations too!

Do you think they'll say where exactly they want to build new nuclear power stations before the election?