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Giving businesses more confidenceto invest. Creating more jobs.And if you don’t believe me, just look at the job creation figures. Since this government took office,over one million new jobs have been created in the private sector. That is more – net – in the last twoyears than Labour managed in ten years.LABOURNow, the Labour politicians who got us into the mess say they have a different way out of it.
They callit Plan B and it goes like this: We should stop worrying about deficit reduction, borrow more moneyand spend it to boost the economy.It sounds so reasonable when you put it like that. Let me tell you why it’s not.Right now, while we’ve got a deficit, the people we’re borrowing money from believe that we’ll pay itback - because we’ve set out a tough plan to cut spending and live within our means.That’s why our interest rates are among the lowest in the world, even though the deficit left to us byLabour was one of the highest in the world.If we did what Labour want, and watered down our plans, the risk is that the people we borrow moneyfrom would start to question our ability and resolve to pay off our debts.Some may actually refuse to lend us that money. Others would only lend it to us at higher interestrates.That would hurt the economy and hit people hard.If you have a mortgage of £100,000, just a 1 per cent interest rate rise would mean an extra thousandpounds to pay each year.
Labour’s plan to borrow more is actually a massive gamble with oureconomy and our future. And it would squander the sacrifices we’ve already made.We’re here because they spent too much and borrowed too much. How can the answer be morespending and more borrowing? I honestly think Labour haven’t learned a single thing.When they were in office, their answer was always: Borrow more money.Now they’re out of office it’s: Borrow more money.Whatever the day, whatever the question, whatever the weather it’s: borrow more money.Borrow, borrow, borrow.Labour: the party of one notion: more borrowing.
I sometimes wonder if they know anything about thereal economy at all.Did you hear what Ed Miliband said last week about taxes? He described a tax cut as the governmentwriting people a cheque.Ed ... Let me explain to you how it works. When people earn money, it’s their money. Not thegovernment’s money: their money.Then, the government takes some of it away in tax. So, if we cut taxes, we’re not giving them money we’re taking less of it away.
OK?And while we’re on that - who suffers when the wealthy businessman goes off to live in Geneva? Nothim – he’s paying about half the tax he would do here … it’s those who want to work who sufferbecause the jobs aren’t being created here.We promised that those with the broadest shoulders would bear the biggest burden … and with us, therich will pay a greater share of tax in every year of this Parliament than in any one of the thirteen yearsunder Labour.Under Labour.We haven’t forgotten, you know. We remember who spent our golden legacy, who sold our gold …who busted our banks, who smothered our businesses … who wracked up our debts, who wrecked oureconomy …who ruined our reputation, who risked our future …who did this? – Labour did this – andthis country should never forget it.496ASPIRATION ECONOMYTo get Britain on the rise we need a whole new economy …more enterprising, more aspirational …and it’s taking shape already.We’re getting our entrepreneurial streak back: last year the rate of new business creation was fasterthan any other year in our history.Let me repeat that.The rate at which new businesses started – faster than any year on record.
We’re making things again.We had a trade surplus in cars last year for the first time in almost 40 years.And it’s not just the old industries growing, it’s the new. We’re number one in the world for offshorewind. Number one in the world for tidal power. The world’s first green investment bank.Britain leading; Britain on the rise. We’re showing we can do it. Look at the new investment comingin.In the last two years, Google, Intel, Cisco – the big tech firms – they’ve all set up new bases here. Andwe are selling to the world again.When I became Prime Minister I said to the Foreign Office: those embassies you’ve got …turn theminto showrooms for our cars, department stores for our fashion, technology hubs for British start-ups.Yes, you’re diplomats but you need to be our country’s salesforce too.
And look what’s happening. Injust two years, our exports to Brazil are up 25 per cent … to China – 40 per cent … to Russia – 80 percent.There are so many opportunities in this world. I want to tell you about one business that’s seizingthem. It’s run by a guy called Alastair Lukies.He and his business partner saw a world with almost 6 billion mobile phones and just 2 billion bankaccounts. They saw the huge gap in the market– and they started a mobile banking firm … helpingpeople in the poorest parts of the world manage their money and start new companies.He’s been with me on trade missions all over the world – and his business is booming.
Back in 2010,when we came to office, they employed about 100 people – now it’s more than 700.Then they were nowhere in Africa, nowhere in Asia, now they are the global player, with one millionnew users every month. So don’t let anyone tell you Britain can’t make it in this world – we’re themost enterprising, buccaneering, creative, dynamic nation on earth.And to those who question whether it’s right to load up a plane with businesspeople – whether we’reflying to Africa, Indonesia, to the Gulf or China …whether we’re taking people from energy, finance,technology or yes – defence … I say – there is a global battle out there to win jobs, orders, contracts …and in that battle I believe in leading from the front.To get our economy on the rise there’s a lot more to do – and frankly a lot more fights to be had.Because there are too many of what I’d call the “yes-but-no” people.
The ones who say “yes, ourbusinesses need to expand …but no we can’t reform planning.”It’s simple. For a business to expand, it needs places to build. If it takes too long, they’ll just buildelsewhere.I visited a business the other day that wanted to open a big factory just outside Liverpool.
But thecouncil was going to take so long to approve the decision that they’re now building that factory on thecontinent – and taking hundreds of jobs with them.If we’re going to be a winner in this global race we’ve got to beat off this suffocating bureaucracyonce and for all.
And then there are those who say “yes of course we need more housing” … but “no”to every development – and not in my backyard.Look - it's OK for my generation. Many of us have got on the ladder. But you know the average agethat someone buys their first home today, without any help for their parents? 33 years old.We are the party of home ownership – we cannot let this carry on.So yes – we’re doubling the discount for buying your council house …we’re helping first-time buyersget a 95 per cent mortgage …but there’s something else we need to do – and that’s accept we need tobuild more houses in Britain.497There are young people who work hard year after year but are still living at home.
They sit in theirchildhood bedroom, looking out of the window dreaming of a place of their own.I want us to say to them – you are our people, we are on your side, we will help you reach yourdreams.WELFAREIf we want our people to rise so Britain can rise, we must tackle welfare. Here’s two facts for you.Fact one. We spend £90 billion a year on welfare for working-age people.
Not pensions. Just welfarefor working age people – and that’s one pound in every eight the government spends.Fact two. More of our children live in households where nobody works than almost any other nation inEurope. Let me put it simply. Welfare isn’t working. And this is a tragedy.Our reforms are just as profound as those of Beveridge 60 years ago. He had his great evils to slay.Squalor. Ignorance. Want. Idleness. And Disease.Here are mine.First, unfairness.What are hard-working people who travel long distances to get into work and pay their taxes meant tothink when they see families – individual families – getting 40, 50, 60 thousand pounds of housingbenefit to live in homes that these hard working people could never afford themselves?It is an outrage.
And we are ending it by capping housing benefit.The second evil: injustice.Here’s the choice we give our young people today.Choice one: Work hard. Go to college. Get a job. Live at home. Save up for a flat. And as I’ve justsaid, that can feel like forever.Or: Don’t get a job. Sign on. Don’t even need to produce a CV when you do sign on. Get housingbenefit. Get a flat. And then don’t ever get a job or you’ll lose a load of housing benefit.We must be crazy.So this is what we’ve done.Now you have to have to sign a contract that says: you do your bit and we’ll do ours.It requires you to have a real CV and it makes clear: you have to seek work and take work – or youwill lose your benefit.
And we’re going to look at ending automatic access to housing benefit forpeople under 25 too.If hard-working young people have to live at home while they work and save, why should it be anydifferent for those who don’t?The next evil: bureaucracy.Sign on. Sign here. Come back in a fortnight. Repeat as required.What does this do for the guy who’s been out of work for years, playing computer games all day,living out a fantasy because he hates real life?For people like him we’re doing something new.
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