Brown’s fiscal stimulus has worked in Woking

Unemployment over 50% lower under Labour

This morning the Labour Party have launched a website detailing the difference between unemployment under Conservative policies in the 1980s and unemployment under Labour’s policies now. Unemployment is over 50% lower in Woking under Labour’s fiscal stimulus than it was under a sustained regime of Tory spending cuts and privatisation. This is despite us currently enduring a global financial catastrophe.

Labour is of course very different to how it was in the 1980s. We are determined to pay off the deficit that preserving the financial system has left us with.

But the Tories are exactly the same. They want to make sure that lower and average income earners pay off as much of the defecit as possible. That means you and me. They also want us to pay by radically cutting back the public services we all use day to day, including cuts to education spending, which they still refuse to tell the public about. it is a potent combination of disaster and dishonesty.

In doing this, they will also kill the demand that Woking’s small businesses depend upon.

At the General Election, we have a choice to make. Do we move forward with Labour’s approach, or do we return to the distant peak of high unemployment we saw in the 1980s with the Conservatives?

Update: Just after writing this, I found out that the ILO says UK unemployment has fallen.