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A vote for me is a vote for fairness
Date published: 11 January 2011
Election 2011
Election Statement
Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
I’m a working mum with strong family values. My husband John and I have lived locally since we were married 24 years ago.
I have a proud record of standing up for what I believe in — and getting things done.
People are telling me across the borough that they are angry about broken promises by the Lib-Dem-Tory Government.
This Thursday, there’s a unique chance to send a clear message to the Government that it doesn’t have to be this way.
We’ve been badly let down by the devastating plan to axe 1,387 police officers across Greater Manchester — despite being promised more police on the beat at last year’s General Election by both the Lib-Dems and the Tories.
Before the election, we were told university tuition fees were wrong and promised that they would be abolished.
But once in power, the Lib-Dems and Tories trebled student tuition fees to an eye-watering £9,000 a year.
There’s huge concern here, too, about the Government’s unfair decision to scrap Labour’s education maintenance allowance which now helps 4,303 students across the borough stay on to get the decent education they deserve.
The pain of two unfair price hikes at the fuel pumps since Christmas — a real double-whammy — is not just hurting motorists but threatening the very survival of some businesses.
You may recall that before the election, Mr Cameron spoke out against an increase in VAT. He said about VAT: “it hits the poorest the hardest. It does, I absolutely promise you.”
Before the election, Mr Clegg warned of a “Tory VAT bombshell” and said there was “absolutely no reason to raise VAT because we have done our homework”.
But once in government, Mr Clegg helped Mr Cameron drop the very same VAT bombshell he warned against. Another broken promise.
The unfair increase in VAT to record levels is already forcing all of us to pay more every time we go shopping. And, yes, it does hit the poorest hardest. This isn’t what you voted for.
A vote for me is a vote for fairness. I’ll fight the police cuts and make cutting crime a priority.
I won’t let them get away with making the borough pay more than our share in cuts and extra charges.
I’ll work my socks off to protect the borough’s vital public services from unfair cuts.
And I’ll work to deliver more facilities, more jobs, and more affordable homes.
Make me your MP this Thursday and on Friday I’ll deliver your message to David Cameron and Nick Clegg — no more unfair cuts, no more unfair tax hikes, no more broken promises.
I’ll always do what’s best for the borough — not what’s best for Westminster. And I won’t make promises I can’t keep.
Comments
You have my Vote.
You speak of fairness, and yet you were not willing to share a democratic platform with another candidate that to me seems not fair, and again we see in the Telegraph national news papers today , that the Labour Party is using dirty tricks even having one MP removed from this seat for using dirty tricks during the General Election. How can you be trusted to be fair with dealing the electorate whilst be unable or unwilling to engage with any in debate whom you disagree with!
I am just wondering if any of the people who are hoping to be elected can offer my daughter some chance of hope .she lives in sholver and has been without heating in her flat for over 3 years, now after a burst pipe she cannot use her bathroom due to water damage she has to go to friends and have a bath or shower all she keeps being told by our so called council is she is not a priority well after 3 years i dont know anyone who has been waiting for repair longer she just lives in hope.
I like it, fairness?....do politicians actually know what the word means?. None do as they promise, taxing the poor is easy, the greedy rich simply upsticks and move to another country, or find tax loop hole or havens for their money. And there would not be a deficit in this country if it was not for bankers and the greedy rich not paying their way.
You've already got my vote in the post Debbie. We women should remember that less than a hundred years ago we weren't allowed to vote.Courageous women such as Oldhamer Annie Kenny were prepared to lay down their lives to get female suffrage so it would be a wonderfully historic occasion to get Oldham's first woman MP. Debbie is truly worthy of your vote.
Fairness Mrs Abrahams? From a Labour politician? EMA is a payment to keep youth unemployment figures down. Labour's ridiculously unsustainable 50% target of kids in Uni is what has brought about the need to slash HE costs.
The massively bloated and ineffective public sector is why it is being cut. 2 support staf for every copper in GMP? No wonder cuts are needed.
You have already failed at the ballot box and I can't see why that will change. Woolas, Chaytor, Illsley all epitomise fairness.
So sad that people still fall for the spin of this despicable anti-Britsh Labour Party. Abrahams and Milliband want us to forget the legacy of the Labour governments . for a start, how about 1.8 million of the 2 million jobs created in their term of government being taken by immigrants ( ONS figure ). Labour isn't fair to native Britons, they work against us.
I have to ask myself, will any of the contending parties big noises who descended on our town in recent days give a damn about Oldham after Thursday's election or even remember where on the map we are? To hear them enthusing about their party's candidate when, in all probability they dont know them from Adam is electioneering in the extreme.
The Labour Party took this country into two illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also took the UK deeper and deeper into the undemocratic European Union. If Debbie Abrahams wants to talk about fairnes then she should fight to reverse these processes, although I doubt that she will.
Was it fair for Labour to import millions of low paid workers into this country pushing our unemployment up to 2.5m, cutting our pay and conditions whilst Blair paid lip service to the British sheeple? Blair and Brown ruined this country on the alter of big business, look at Blair's £millions now while workers and pensioners struggle on. Labour know or care nothing of how we survive. You will never get my vote again.
Listening to the politics programme today the East Oldham and Saddleworth election had become the Oldham election. No mention of Saddleworth. It is true women like Annie Kenney from Lees stood up for the rights of women, but then and now they need to be up to the job. I am not sure "I know about Oldham because I shop there is sufficient".
A vote for fairness? Ok lets conveniently forget the unfairness of the last 11 years and concentrate instead on Labours policies for this election. So what are they? I've had the flyers but all they tell me is that the opposition are bad and that I should use my vote to send a message to the coallition. This is an election for crying out loud, a bit more important that an opportunity to send a message to someone! Vote for your local MP, not to send messages.
Have Your Say
I think everyone feels let down by a Liebour party which took us on a illegal war costing billions, allowed millions of immigrants into the UK without telling anyone, and accusing people of 'racism' whenever they had the temerity to ask. A party who cannot help but bully voters, even it's own supporters were called 'bigotted' because they dared to question immigration 'policy'.
A vote for fairness, it'll be fairer for some than for others!
By Flake @ 11/01/2011 16:41:39