Transcript General Election Special - Learning Disability Alliance Scotland

General Election Special
Thursday May 7th 2015
What is the General Election about?
• The General Election is where everyone in
Britain gets to say who they think should run
the country
• They vote by post or by going to polling
station and making their choice on a piece of
paper.
• The vote will be on Thursday May 7th 2015.
The General Election Video
What did you vote in the Referendum
on Independence?
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2. No
3. Didn’t vote
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Who Is Involved?
Edinburgh
London
Edinburgh
Who is involved
Put a map of your local constituency here
Available from
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/electionmaps/gb/
Who Is Involved
London
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Scottish
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The Powers of the Westminster over
Scotland
The Powers of the Westminster over
Scotland
What Would You Say To A Politician
About The General Election?
Picture Question - Who do you like?
1. David Cameron
2. Alex Salmond
3. Ed Miliband
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Do you like what they say?
1. David Cameron
2. Alex Salmond
3. Ed Miliband
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Picture Question - Who do you like?
1. Ruth Davidson
2. Nicola Sturgeon
3. Jim Murphy
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Who can you
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What Other Politicians
Do You Like?
What will the politicians do for people
with learning disabilities
• Mary Scanlon
Conservative
Stewart Hosie
SNP
Jim Murphy
Labour
Which one did you think was best?
1. Mary Scanlon
Conservative
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2. Stewart Hosie SNP
Thinking about what they said
• For those who voted for Jim Murphy only, can
you think of something that Stuart Hosie said
that you liked
• For those who voted for Stuart Hosie only, can
you think of something that Jim Murphy said
that you liked
What Labour Says
Only Ed Miliband Can Replace
David Cameron
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2. I don’t like this
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What the SNP says
Only the SNP can stand up for Scotland
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What the Conservatives Say
Only the Conservatives can stop
Labour
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What would you like to know more
about?
1. The NHS
2. Welfare Benefits
3. Defence and
Nuclear Weapons
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4. The Economy
The Economy
• Conservatives: Be in budget surplus by 2019-20
through spending cuts, not tax rises, while raising NHS
spending.
• Labour Get the current budget into surplus as soon as
possible. No additional borrowing for new spending.
Reintroduce the 50p top rate of income tax for
earnings over £150,000.
• SNP: We have an alternative to the Westminster cuts
agenda. We want a modest spending increase of 0.5
per cent a year which will enable at least £140 billion
extra investment in the economy and public services.
Help For Jobs
• Conservatives: Create three million
apprenticeships to be paid for by benefit cuts.
• Labour: Guarantee a job for under 25s
unemployed for over a year and adults
unemployed for more than two years. Create a
million new high technology, green jobs by 2025.
Ban "exploitative" zero hour contracts.
• SNP:We will vote to increase the minimum wage
to £8.70 by 2020. We will also support measures
to extend the Living Wage across the UK
The NHS
• Conservatives: 1,000 extra nurses funded by
reintroducing means testing for prescription
charges. Pilot a network of Recovery Centres to
ease A&E pressure
• Labour: 1,000 more NHS nurses and 500 more
GPs. Guarantee to cancer patients that they will
receive the best treatment
• SNP: We will vote for an increase in NHS spending
across the UK of £24 billion by 2020-21 - £9.5
billion above inflation. This will boost the NHS
Scotland budget by £2 billion.
Welfare Benefits
• Conservatives: No increase in benefits for working-age
people for two years to save £3bn. Cut benefit cap to
£23,000. Withdraw Jobseeker's Allowance from young
people after six months unless they take part in
"community projects".
• Labour: Devolve powers to top up welfare benefits to
“create a fairer Scotland”. Establish a £175m Scottish
Anti-Poverty Fund to "make food banks history“.
Abolish the "bedroom tax"
• SNP: An end to "bedroom tax“. Universal Credit and
Personal Independence Payments roll out should stop
and oppose the £3 billion cut in disability funding.
Defence and Nuclear Weapons
• Conservatives: Second new aircraft carrier will be
brought into active service. Replace Trident with
four submarines to maintain continuous at sea
nuclear deterrent.
• Labour: Commit in law to holding a Strategic
Defence and Security Review every 5 years. A
"minimum, credible, independent nuclear
deterrent" based on continuous patrols
• SNP: Oppose nuclear weapons and push for
removal of Trident submarines from Scotland.
Promote peaceful alternatives to armed conflict.
What Would You Say To Politicians
About These Issues?
What Do People With Learning
Disabilities Think?
Who are you going to vote for?
1. Conservative
2. SNP
3. Labour
4. Lib Dems
5. Greens
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