下面是小编为大家整理的布莱尔首相演讲【优秀范文】,供大家参考。
篇一：布莱尔首相演讲 Investment
Transcript of the Prime Ministers broadcast on investment
Wherever you look in our country, you can see the result of decades of under-investment.
Children still being taught in cramped or prefab classrooms. Patients treated in wards built long before penicillin was discovered.
Our railways and roads fall short of the standards we need. And thats not just bad for travellers but bad for our economy.
And its not just the fabric of our country which reveals the signs of this failure to invest.
There was a chronic shortage of people, of teachers, doctors, nurses when we came into Government three years ago.
Even worse, we found that training places and recruitment had often been cut back.
Now I dont go along with those who claim, for example, that we have a third world health service.
Thats an insult to the dedicated doctors and nurses who work in the NHS. And it also ignores the fact that thousands of people every day get superb treatment and care.
But we are now the fourth biggest economy in the world. And few people would claim we have the fourth best public services. I certainly dont. Thats because for far too long - we havent invested. We havent looked to the long-term. We havent invested for our future.
And thats largely because of the cycle of boom and bust which has gripped our economy for so long.
It meant sudden increases of investment followed by panic cut-backs which made it impossible to plan sensibly for the future.
We were so determined to restore stability to the economy - even if it meant hard decisions and some unpopularity.
We didnt ignore investment in our early years. Indeed we launched the biggest hospital building programme in the history of the health service. The first of these is already open in Carlisle. We invested to make sure
that infant class sizes have fallen. Over 10,000 schools have been re-furbished o...
(想阅读全部图文内容，您需要先登陆！)
