Conservative fight back

I'm pleased to see that the Conservatives are fighting back nationally after the drubbing in the local elections. 

I have today received a letter from David Cameron in which he outlines the successes of the Conservative led coalition.  He starts by saying that Boris Johnson's victory in London's Mayoral contest was a victory for Conservative values, "which are at the heart of all we want to do in government, changing our country to make it much more on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life. 

"The most profound demonstration of this is our all-out efforts to stop Labour's dire deficit from crippling our country.  It is taking longer than anyone hoped to recover form the biggest debt crisis of our lifetime, but good progress is being made.  Our credible fiscal plan has helped us maintain our top international credit rating and - in contrast to many other European countries - we have interest rates at near record lows, which keeps down the cost of ffamily mortgages and business loans......

"Our values are also at work stopping Labour's something-for-nothing culture.  We are capping benefits; radically reforming welfare to make work pay; controlling immigration; boosting business; improving standards in educarion; and cutting taxing for millions for millions of hard-working families....

"We want to see Britian competing on the world stage as a hub of enterprise and innovation.  We want to put teachers firmly in control in the classroom and restore discipline to raise standards.  We want to end Labour's something-for-nothing culture once and for all."

These are the government's achievements so far:

• Getting the defidit down through tough spending reductions
• Reducing corporation tax to the lowest in the G7 and showing that Britain is open to business
• Establishing 111 Free Schools and over 1,400 academies to create the widest choice in our education system
• Making work pay through the biggest welfare reforms in 40 years and capping the total amount of  benefits that one household can claim
• Capping immigration and sending the firmest message to Europe by rejecting the EU Treaty and we have legislated to ensure no government can transfer powers to Europe without holding a referendum

What remains to be done:

• Rebalancing the economy away from the government spending and finance, and towards export-led private sector growth
• Putting teachers firmly in control and restoring discipline to raise standards
• Ending Labour's someting-for-nothing culture once and for all
• bringing migration down from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands

Please would you contact me if you would like to help the Conservatives achieve these goals.
michaelread@ntlworld.com