Bloody Sunday Website

For all those that are interested in the facts, movements concerning Bloody Sunday go here:

http://www.bloodysundaytrust.org/index-02.html

voting record of David Cameron

(from the website theyworkforyou.com )

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How David Cameron voted on key issues since 2001:

• Voted against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
• Voted moderately for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
• Voted strongly for laws to stop climate change. votes
• Voted strongly against introducing foundation hospitals. votes
• Voted moderately for greater autonomy for schools. votes
• Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
• Voted strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
• Voted moderately against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
• Voted moderately against introducing a smoking ban. votes
• Voted strongly against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
• Voted strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
• Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes
• Voted a mixture of for and against a stricter asylum system. votes
• Voted moderately for equal gay rights. votes
• Voted strongly against introducing student top-up fees. votes
• Voted moderately against more EU integration. votes
• Voted very strongly against the hunting ban. votes
• Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes

~Elizabeth Cutbirth

As the US Senate votes AYE on the Wall Street reform bill "Cameron vows to veto any eurozone bailout

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7133106.ece

After our nation has bailed out banks and now the Senate has just passed the Wall Street reform bill showing the different strategies implemented in both countries.

QUANGOS IN TROUBLE

Where the cuts are likely to fall in education

In an effort to cut hundreds of millions of pounds from the budget deficit, the new British coalition-led government has prepared cuts to the education budget.

The chief secretary to the Treasury, David Laws, will announce £6bn of cuts – from education and elsewhere – in an attempt to dent Britain's £163bn fiscal deficit.

In education, quangos predicted to be effected include:

• The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency: designs the national school curriculum, which has an annual budget of £128m.

• Becta: promotes the use of technology in schools, which has an annual budget of £65m.

Governmental agencies thought to be selected for heavy cuts include:

• The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA): trains teachers and ensures schools are delivering government policy. Last year its budget was £743m.

• The Young People's Learning Agency: funds education and training for 16 to 19-year-olds.
  

• The School Food Trust: tries to improve the standard of school dinners to comply with, and exceed, nutritional standards.

• The Children's Commissioner: aims to champion the voices of children and young people in their local areas.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/may/21/cuts-education

Budget Cuts

This upcoming Monday GB will be seeing millions cut from Quangos in education in order to relieve the system of its large budget deficit. This action has caused a storm of controversy concerning the Quangos' role. Some politicians have stated that a governmental department doing the same job as a Quango would be more expensive. Other politicians complain about an unnecessarily large number of quangos in a certain niche, and cuts would benefit any inefficiency.












~Elizabeth Cutbirth~

General election 2010: David Cameron launches Conservative manifesto

The Torries have recently been trying to appeal to the working people of Great Britain as a new campaign strategy.

Conservatives Reveal their Manifesto (!)

The Conservatives have officially released their election manifesto, a document that details their positions for the upcoming May 6th General Election.

David Cameron, Leader of the Conservative Party, announced the manifesto today, and covered its main platforms. Its key focus is on the "working people", whom Mr. Cameron and the Conservatives will need to decidedly win over if they hope to take the next election. The Conservatives have been criticized in the past for their limited electoral platform, which has focused on a limited range of issues benefiting mainly the middle- and upper-classes. Mr. Cameron and co. have addressed these complaints accordingly.

"We stand for the working people that Labour has abandoned with their jobs tax and their waste," he said. "We stand for the idealists that the Liberal Democrats will inevitably disappoint because they cannot win this race."

The Conservatives need to win 116 seats to form a government, the most since the 1931 election that thrust them back into power after a period of weakness. The Tories hope to repeat that feat next month.

The Tories have stressed reducing the record £167 billion fiscal deficit, a pet peeve for conservatives of all stripes, though they have also paradoxically proposed an increased in health care spending, a move that the Tories claim will lead to a more "efficient and effective in the way we run the health service."

Only May 6th (and the polls leading up to then) will tell if this manifesto will persuade British voters to vote Conservative.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/13/david-cameron-launches-conservative-manifesto