Similarities between 2010 manifestos of the main parties
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- Created on: 11-05-14 11:32
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- How far are the policies of the three main political parties similar?
- Economy
- Similarities
- LD & Lab: continue spending until 2011
- Con & LD: cut tax credits, reduce tax for earners
- All: tax on banks
- Differences
- LD: £10000 income tax threshhold, £2 million mansion tax
- Con: Emergency budget within 50 days, £6 bil cuts
- Lab: 50% tax on earnings over £150,000 a year, no income tax rise, halve budget deficit in 4 years
- Similarities
- Welfare
- Similarities
- Con & LD: scrap ID cards, pupil premium, cut NHS bureaucracy, oppose compulsory education to 18
- Lab & Con: National Youth Volunteer service
- All: money for schools with poor pupils
- Differences
- Lab: Compulsory education to 18, protect child trust funds and tax credits, protect budgets of front line health education and police services
- Con: Ring fence NHS and aid budgets, free schools, toughen teaching qualifications, cut child trust funds for middle class
- LD: more freedom for school heads, scrap all child trust funds, cancel £480 bil prison building programme, rehab not prison for addicts, no ring fencing of NHS cash
- Similarities
- Foreign Policy
- Similarities
- LD & Lab: Pro-EU
- Lab & Con: Renew Trident
- All: support mission in Afghanistan
- Differences
- LDs: regional cap on non-EU migrants, amnesty for illegal immigrants, scrap trident
- Lab: immigration points system
- Con: annual cap on non-EU migrants, critical of EU
- Similarities
- Politics
- Similarities
- Lab & LD: electoral reform, register of lobbyists, fixed term parliaments, votes at 16
- All: recall of MPs
- LD & Con: cut number of MPs
- Differences
- LD: STV,
- Con: referendums on local issues, elected police commissioners, no to PR, inquiry on political reform
- Lab: AV, heathrow 3rd runway
- Similarities
- Economy
- LD: £10000 income tax threshhold, £2 million mansion tax
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