2010 - THE YEAR FOR CHANGE

David Cameron, in an inspirational speech today, has said:

'It's a brand new year.
A new decade is fresh before us.
This time always comes with a sense of hope.
Hope that successes can be built upon; failures can be learned from...
...new ideas started; a new course charted.
But in 2010, we can do more than just hope.
The next general election is no more than 153 days away and I don't think it can come soon enough.
Let's make this the year for change – the year when the positive defeats the negative.
Because we can't go on like this. We need change to get the country back on its feet
And that change must be based on the values of responsibility and aspiration.
We can’t go on with the same irresponsible economic policies that gave us the biggest boom, the biggest bust…
…and now threatens our recovery with higher debts, higher instability, higher taxes, higher interest rates and higher unemployment.
We can’t go on with an old-fashioned left-wing class war on aspiration from a government that has seen the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
We can’t go on with the old style of politics that divides our country instead of uniting it.
We can’t go on with Labour's bureaucracy, running everything from Whitehall, denying people control over their lives and undermining the professionals in our public services.
We can’t go on in these difficult times with a weak Prime Minister and a divided government.
We can’t go on with another five years of Gordon Brown.
We can't go on like this.
This is no time for more of the same.
We need change to get our country back on its feet.
And it’s the modern Conservative party that has the plans, the ideas, the energy, the people, the unity and the leadership to bring that change…
…we are starting our campaign to win the general election today…
…and we’ll be spelling out exactly what that will mean every day from now until polling day.'

He concluded his speech saying:
'Our plans are not timid – but the truth is they can’t be.
The problems of today demand more.
They demand real change – and that can’t come soon enough.
We can't go on like this. We need change to get the country back on its feet.
A better NHS; an aspirational economy; a big society; a new politics.
We have a four year track record of delivering change in our party.
Now we are impatient to change our country.
We are determined to make a difference.
We are all in this together, and we know that if we all pull together then this country can have great hope for the future.
So let's face this new year with confidence, optimism and hope.
And let's make 2010 the year for change.'

Conservatives here in Brighton Kemptown are ready for the challenge. We will leave no stone unturned in helping to put the country on the right track!