The last 8 years have proved that throwing billions at the public services does not cure a problem.
Council spending has spun out of control, alot to do witht he social burden and the ridiculous increases in the policing budget. How many more cops do you see? (standfast traffic units) I remember the promises of tens of thousands more police on the street - what utter crap.
The health service and education have absorbed the majority for a small decrease in waiting times. An example of education initiative - the result of the multi-million pound anti-truancy campaign has been reckoned by the ONS to have cost about £500,000 per truant who has returned to school.
Go on, vote for the New Labour project again fools, pay through the nose for more eye-catching, media friendly policies which acheive nothing but cost the earth. Anyway, by the end of the next parliament so much power will be divested in Brussels that Blair/Brown will accept no responsibility for the huge budget/pension/economic crisis at all.