40 things that make you proud to be Labour

• Labour won the General Election in May 2005 with one of the biggest majorities in our history, and one of the biggest government majorities since the war.
• This generation of Labour supporters has seen our party in office for longer than any previous generation.
• The economy is providing more jobs than ever before. We have conquered youth unemployment.
• There are 2.5 million more people in work.
• We have the only European economy to avoid a recession in the last ten years.
  We have the lowest interest rates since the 1970s.
• The national minimum wage rises to £5.35 in October 2006. The Tories said it would cost one million jobs. It didn't.
• We've extended maternity leave to 26 weeks.
• Dads get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
• Everyone now has the legal right to four week’s paid holiday.
• We've introduced statutory rights for union recognition.Part-time workers have the same rights as full-time workers thanks to Labour.
• Over 1.6 million child trust fund accounts have been started by parents and friends of children who will benefit when they are 18.
• One million children have been lifted out of poverty since 1997.
• Over 400,000 children are being helped in over 500 Sure Start centres.
• British children have had the best ever GCSE and A level results; we've got over 36,000 more teachers and over 150,000 more teaching assistants in our schools.
• Average spending per pupil up by £1,420 in real terms.
• Pensioners aged over 75 get a free TV licence.
• Three and a half million pensioner households benefit. The Tories opposed it.
• Labour reduced VAT on fuel to 5 per cent. The Tories wanted it to be 17.5 per cent.  
• Everyone over 60 can have a free eye test. The Tories scrapped free eye tests.  
• By 2010, 70 per cent of women will be entitled to a full basic state pension, compared to 30 per cent now.  
• There are more police on our streets than ever before, up 14,000 since 1997, and crime is falling overall, down 35 per cent.
• That means four million fewer victims of crime than under the Tories.  
• With Labour, Britain will meet its Kyoto targets by reducing greenhouse gas emissions by nearly a quarter by 2010.
• By 2008, investment in the National Health Service will have trebled since 1997.  The NHS is treating more people, with the lowest waiting lists, than ever before.  And the overall NHS deficit is coming down.  
• There are 85,000 more nurses and 32,000 more doctors in the NHS than in 1997.  
• We're investing £1 billion in new hospital buildings for St Barts and the Royal London Hospitals, as part of our hospital building programme which has seen 132 new hospitals built or on the way.
• Under the Tories, only one new hospital was built.  
• Cancer death rates down by 14 per cent, saving 43,000 lives under Labour.  
• We're spending more than ever on international aid and development.  It was falling under the Tories.
• We introduced Civil Partnerships, and hundreds of couples have tied the knot.  We also scrapped Section 28.
• Under Labour we've seen the first Black Cabinet Ministers, and the largest number of BME Labour MPs.  The Tories have two.
• Over 417,000 miners or their families have had compensation for industrial diseases.
• Free entry to museums has led to five million extra visits.  
• The Good Friday Agreement has meant longer periods of peace and fewer deaths in Northern Ireland than for decades.
• Labour's London Mayor introduced the congestion charge to reduce traffic in the capital. It works.
• We've scrapped the majority of hereditary peers in the House of Lords, and we will continue to modernise the second chamber.
• We've seen a revival of our great cities, with Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Belfast, Newcastle, Cardiff and the rest enjoying booming local economies, and lively culture and nightlife.
• Under the Tories, our cities were synonymous with unemployment and decline.
• Gift aid was worth £625 million to charities last year, thanks to Labour's budget.
• We will introduce a smoking ban in all enclosed spaces including pubs, restaurants and offices.
• We banned fox hunting. David Cameron spoke up for fox hunting in his maiden speech. The Tories want to re-introduce it.
• The Olympics are coming in 2012, bringing investment, jobs and pride to Britain.