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The Work Programme takes the money we’re goingto save from getting people off the dole …and uses it today to get them into work, with propertraining.We’re spending up to £14,000 on one individual to get them into work – and already almost 700,000people have got onto the Work Programme.So let’s be clear: in British politics today it is this party saying no-one is a write-off, no-one is hopeless…and with Iain Duncan Smith leading this revolution let this be the party that shows there is abilityand promise in everyone.And just one more thing on welfare.You know our work experience programme, where we give young people the chance to work in asupermarket, a shop, an office?Here’s what one union official said about it.
I quote: “The scheme belongs back in the nineteenthcentury, along with Oliver Twist and the workhouse. It is nothing short of state sponsored slavery…”498Honestly. What an appalling, snobbish attitude to the idea of work. We’re not sending children upchimneys, we’re giving them a chance.
What’s cruel isn’t asking something of people – it’s when weask nothing of them. Work isn’t slavery, it’s poverty that is slavery……and again it’s us, the modern compassionate Conservative party, who are the real champions offighting poverty in Britain today.EDUCATIONTo help people to rise, to help Britain rise, there’s a third – crucial – thing we must do. Educate all ourchildren.And I mean really educate them, not just pump up the grades each year. In maths, in science, inreading, we’ve fallen behind …not just behind Germany and Canada but Estonia and Australia too.This is Britain’s real school report and the verdict is clear: must try harder.
You’ve heard of pushyparents, sharp-elbowing their way to a better education for their kids?Well – this is a pushy government.My approach is very simple. I’ve got two children in primary school, and I want for your children whatI want for mine. To go to schools where discipline is strict, expectations are high and no excuses areaccepted for failure.I don’t want great schools to just be the preserve of those that can pay the fees, or buy the nice housein the right catchment area …I want those schools to be open to every child – in every neighbourhood.And the reason I know that every child can go to a school like that is because with this Government,more and more new ones are opening.We’ve heard from some of them this week … not just the 79 new free schools – with over a hundredmore to come…… but from some of the more than 2000 academies we’ve helped create – state schools given all thefreedoms, and carrying all the high expectations, of private schools.Yes – that’s my plan – millions of children sent to independent schools …independent schools, in thestate sector.That’s the genuine revolution that’s now underway.The Harris Academy in Peckham has increased the number of students getting five good GCSEs –from 12 percent when it was under local authority control to almost 90 percent now.The transformation has been astonishing – and the methods have been Conservative.Smart uniforms, teachers in suits.
Children taught physics, chemistry and biology not soft options.Children set by ability – with excellence applauded, extra resources for those most in need but noexcuses for slacking.When you see a school like that succeed it prompts the question: Why can’t every school be that way?Why can’t every child have those chances?It’s not because parents aren’t ambitious enough – most of these schools are massively oversubscribed.It’s because the old educational establishment – the left-wing local authorities, the leaders of theteachers unions, the Labour party theorists – stood in the way.When we saw a badly failing school in Haringey and wanted to turn it into an Academy, the Labourauthority, the Labour MP and the teaching unions said no.When inspirational teachers and parents – in Hammersmith, in Norwich, in Bristol and in Wigan –wanted to open free schools, the left-wing establishment said no.When we proposed: More pay for good teachers...
Getting rid of bad teachers …Longer school days tohelp children learn … Flexible school hours to help parents work …More stretching exams for thosewho’re really able… Less nonsense about health and safety …the left-wing establishment have saidjust one thing: No.When you ask them: why is a school failing? Why aren’t the children succeeding? You hear the samething over and over again.‘What can you expect with children like these?’ they say. ‘These children are disadvantaged.’499Of course we want to tackle every disadvantage.
But isn’t the greatest disadvantage of all being writtenoff by those so in hock to a culture of low expectations that they have forgotten what it’s like to beambitious, to want to transcend your background, to overcome circumstance and succeed on your ownterms?It’s that toxic culture of low expectations – that lack of ambition for every child – which has held thiscountry back.Well, Michael Gove and I are not waiting for an outbreak of sanity in the headquarters of the NUT oran embrace of aspiration in the higher reaches of Labour before we act.Because our children can’t wait.So when people say we should slow down our education reforms – so adults can adjust to them, I say:I want more free schools, more Academies, more rigorous exams in every school, more expected ofevery child.And to all those people who say: he wants children to have the kind of education he had at his poshschool …I say: yes – you’re absolutely right.I went to a great school and I want every child to have a great education.I’m not here to defend privilege, I’m here to spread it.CONCLUSIONI don’t have a hard luck story.
My dad was a stockbroker from Berkshire.It’s only when your dad’s gone that you realise – not just how much you really miss them – but howmuch you really owe them.My dad influenced me much more than I ever thought. He was born with no heels on his feet and legsabout a foot shorter than they’re meant to be. But he never complained - even when he lost both thoselegs later in life.Because disability in the 1930s was such a stigma, he was an only child. Probably a lonely child.But Dad was the eternal optimist. To him the glass was always half full.
Usually with somethingalcoholic in it.When I was a boy I remember once going on a long walk with him in the village where we lived,passing the church he supported and the village hall where he took part in interminable parish councilmeetings.He told me what he was most proud of. It was simple – working hard from the moment he left schooland providing a good start in life for his family.Not just all of us, but helping his mum too, when his father ran off. Not a hard luck story, but a hardwork story.Work hard.
Family comes first. But put back in to the community too.There is nothing complicated about me. I believe in working hard, caring for my family and servingmy country. And there is nothing complicated about what we need today.This is still the greatest country on earth. We showed that again this summer.
22nd in worldpopulation. 3rd in the medals table.But it’s tough. These are difficult times. We’re being tested. How will we come through it? Again, it’snot complicated. Hard work. Strong families. Taking responsibility. Serving others.As I said on the steps of No10 Downing Street before walking through that door: Those who canshould, those who can’t we will always help.The job of this party … of this government … is to help to bring out the best in this country. Becauseat our best we’re unbeatable.We know Britain can deliver because we’ve seen it time and again.This is the country that … invented the computer, defeated the Nazis, started the web, saw off theslave trade, unravelled DNA and fought off every invader for a thousand years.We even persuaded the Queen to jump out of a helicopter to make the rest of the world smile ….
thereis absolutely nothing we cannot do.500Can we make Britain the best place in the world to start a business, grow a business and help thatbusiness take on the world and win? Yes.Can we – the people who invented the welfare state in the first place – turn it into something thatrewards effort, helps keep families together and really helps the poorest with a new start in life. Yes.Can we take our schools and turn out students that will take on the brightest in the world? Yes. Ofcourse we can.Let us here in this hall, here in this government, together in this country make this pledge – let’s buildan aspiration nation …let’s get Britain on the rise.Deficit, paid down.
Tough decisions, taJken. Growth, fired up. Aspiration, backed all the way.We know what it takes to win … to win in the tough world of today … to win for all our people … towin for Britain.So let’s get out there and do it.Leader's speech, Birmingham 2010David Cameron (Conservative)Location: BirminghamCameron, D. Leader’s speech, Birmingham 2010 [Электронный ресурс] / D.
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