Prospective Power - Labour (1/3)

The most recent general election resulted in mass confusion and mixed-up policies. In part one of a three part series, Eve McLynn looks at what would have happened had the election had a different, more final outcome.

A Labour majority, and the parliament is staying as it has been since 1997. But Gordon Brown has promised ‘A Future Fair for All’, so how can he make Britain a better place?
 
2010: Let's pretend Bigot-gate, Iraq and the credit crunch and - let's face it - Gordon's smile hadn't happened, and Labour have gained another four years.

How convenient for Gordon Brown. The speeches are made, promises renewed, and our beloved Prime Minister doesn’t even have to pack up his furniture. He sits down with his government, and the plans are made for the next year. One by one the politicians leave the room, and Gordon Brown gazes out of the window, at his country.
 
2011: Labour has done their best over the last year to change Britain, changing the voting age to sixteen, and working to make the UK "go green" by increasing woodland areas and introducing new energy plans. A higher minimum wage is implemented and the government sets about improving the NHS with routine checks for those over forty, expansion of diagnostic testing and giving the public the right to choose a GP who is available at hours that suit them, in their area.
 
2012: Gordon is now trying to shed the "New Labour" image and return to being man on the people. Labour introduces Toddler Tax Credits of £4 a week, and begins to help the arts by providing more lottery funding for galleries, museums and culture. Keen to win the spokespeople over, celebrations for a Golden Decade of Sport start with the 2012 Olympics. Labour provide fifteen free hours of flexible nursery education for under fours a week, and help ten million people create savings with Personal Pension plans, and social workers and the police are given more power, as the Government decide that prevention is better than cure, intervening earlier in dysfunctional families.
 
2013: By Labour’s third year in Parliament, all children between sixteen and nineteen years old begin to receive free education, and first time buyers are given a helping hand, Gordon Brown style. First time buyers are free from stamp duty for two years. Brown is convinced that this will entice first time buyers to give the economy a boost. The public is now given more free will concerning community service workers, voting upon the work that is carried out.
 
2014: Brown has now held the seat for four years, and election looms again. But Labour ploughs on, convinced that they can still make Britain a better place. Time is running out, and he has deadlines to meet. 400,000 green jobs to be conjured from thin air within one year, and pressure is building for Brown. Within working family life, Labour puts in to action plans to save post offices and local pubs, and restoring Britain to its former glory, in this digital age, implementing a highly technical broadband infrastructure, and halving the deficit, all in one year. Better hurry, Prime Minister.
 
2015: The last four years? What did they do, how did they restore Britain to ‘glory’? Did Gordon Brown live up to expectations? Only the voters can say.