/>Pledge Card Launches #labpledge
Launching Labour’s new Pledge Card in Nottingham this morning, Gordon Brown set out some radical ideas which offer a taster of what’s to come in Labour’s Election 2010 Manifesto.
Focussing on a ‘contract with citizens’ Gordon Brown introduced Labour activists to the five pledges:
- Secure the recovery
- Raise family living standards
- Build a high tech economy
- Protect frontline services
- Stregthen fairness in communities
GB talked about the need for delivery against these pledges and set out how Labour would manage this through the civil service manchinery.
New contracts between Cabinet Ministers and the PM; performance management of senior civil servants by the Cabinet Secretary; and an open source tool for citizens to monitor the Government progress in delivering change which will be accessible to everyone.
The most exiciting part of the speech for me was GB’s call to arms… ‘We are the greatest force for fairness that this country has ever seen’. This will remind activists who are out on the doorstep this weekend why they are campagining for a fourth Labour term.
The changes that people have seen around them in their own communities over the last decade, from schools and hospitals and better services for vulnerable families are a constant reminder of the force for change that a progressive government can be. Gordon’s message today is by voting Conservative at this difficult economic corssroads, this will all be put a risk.
What do you think? Are you out campaigning today and have you used Labour’s new pledge card on the doorstep? Why no blog about it on our campaigner diary?
