imperative on him and his ministers to articulate and inform the value of the work of doing that and the necessity of stabilizing that region. >> i share the sympathies he expresses to the family of his constituents and i share with him the urgency of persuading the country that first of all we are in afghanistan because there is a threat of terrorism on the streets of britain and i repeat that the majority of the plots that have been discovered in britain to threaten the lives of people in britain the majority of these terrorist plots come from the afghanistan/pakistan area. they don't come from plot with in britain or europe, they are organized from the area and that is why we are in afghanistan. to prevent them running afghanistan through a government that would be run by the taliban itself and i secondly to him we have to persuade people we have a purpose of our mission and

that is to train the afghan forces. there will be 300,000 afghan security forces in 2011. they will be a far greater course in numbers from coalition forces together and gradually the afghan forces in operation together gradually the afghan forces have got to take security controls to allow our troops to come home. cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc for the benefit of a small minority of people? >> the party opposite says that they want to cut the child trust fund, cut the child tax credit, and other measures. where would the money go?

to pay for an inheritance tax cut for over 3000 people. it doesn't take -- >> order, order. >> with the prime minister agreed that the terrorist bombs in northern ireland are direct attacks on the very community from which the terrorists come? >> there are members and all sorts of the house that are from northern ireland. i agree with them that any terrorist attacks are something we have to be vigilant about to take the necessary actions to stop. the last number of terrorist organizations announced that there were renouncing violence. it is the pressure upon others that must be brought to bear. but the way we show terrorist

organizations that we will have no truck with their violence is to build up the democratic process in northern ireland, so i urge all parties to support the agreement that will mean dead end to constitutional conflicts over many years in northern ireland. that would be the biggest single to anyone interested in terrorism in northern ireland. signal we could say to anybody who's interested in terrorism in northern ireland. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i enjoyed a pint of porter and a game of darts as much as any old italian. [laughter] >> but they're the so mary ann's. [laughter] >> have asked my right honorable friend to strain every sin you to try to cheat at international agreement on a robin hood tax,

bearing in mind we all know who, in this house, speaks for the sheriff of nottingham. [laughter] >> mr. speaker, i cannot beat the humor which my honorable friend brings to this occasion. and when the leader of the opposition is having a pint of guinness and playing darts he might consider this, there's growing support across the world just as there was growing support to do with the recession in a way he wouldn't propose to do with the, growing support like global lever that will put the place of financial institutions firmly at the global level and make a contribution to society. that is the way forward. the global levy, global banking organization, global financial >> each week the house of commons is in session, we air

prime minister's questions live on c-span2 at 7:00 a.m. eastern and then again on c-span at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. at c-span.org, you can find an archive of past prime ministers questions. >> now remarks from british conservative leader david cameron. he challenged gordon brown's policies on entitlement programs and a national health services during the spring conference. the british government is holding elections this spring with recent polls show conservatives holding of small lead over the current majority labour party. this is about 30 minutes. majority labor party. this is 40 minutes. >> thank you. at the thank you. wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

>> i have to make another speech without any notes. i hope that you will bear with me but i want to talk to you very directly today. they don't hand general election victories and governments on a plate to people in this country. and i know how important it is that we recognize something i am always said, which is this election was always going to be close. this election was always going to be a real case. labour and conservatives, gordon brown. this election is always going to be a real fight for our party to make sure that we serve the country that we loved, and that is the fight we are going to

have. [applause] before i start, there are a couple of things i want to say. the first is about the people sitting behind me. i am really proud that this team and the shadow cabinet that we have put together. i am proud of the fact that we work together, we work with each other, we actually like working with each other. [laughter] i think the british people can see that in georgia osborn, there is someone that has the courage to do with our deficit and debt. -- that in george osborne, there is someone that has the courage to deal with our deficit and debt. people can see and ken clark

someone with the experience to get the economy growing again. and there is something else. when you think of the incredible changing that there has been with cabinet ministers -- think about it. since the war in afghanistan, which had five different defense secretaries. i think we've had about eight energy ministers. i believe in trusting good people and letting them get on with the job. we just had one defense secretary. [applause] we have had just one home secretary, and he would make a halt -- he would make a great home secretary.

and i've only had one shadow foreign secretary, and william hayes i think would be the finest foreign secretary this country has had in generations. and there is something else i want to say which is about people engaged in a real fight on the other side of the world in afghanistan. one of the great privileges that i have had as leader of our party is each year i have been able to go to afghanistan and see for myself what our troops are doing. and whether it is held in province and canada are, you just come away struck with the -- and whether it is in helmand province or in canada --

kandahar, i know that everyone will want to see the clearest signal that we salute you and support you. we will back your families. we will help you and all our circumstances because you are the brat -- you are the best of britain. we got a maximum of 70 days between now and the general election that we must win. and you know what? this is not an election that it

would be quite nice to win because we have some good policies or that these ministers would be good. it is election we have to win because our country is in a complete mess and it is our duty to turn it around and give this country a better future. and i think everyone in this country knows that. i think everyone knows that another five years of gordon brown would be a disaster for our country. another five years of spending and bullet and waste and debt and taxes, another five years of failing to solve the social problems, another problem with the top down "i know best" approach, and another five years of dysfunction, a government so

divided and weak, secretaries and cannot work with them and cannot get rid them, they are locked in this dangerous dance of death tracking our whole country down. and it is only the country -- the conservative party back and give people the hope of a different future, and as we leave this country today, we must resolve that we will not let you down. we have had a great conference here, a great year in our party. you've heard about some of the things that we of a cheap and local government and parliament and elsewhere. but i think we all know that the british people still have got some big questions that they want to ask us and that we have

got to answer. they want to know what sort of party we are. they want to know what we stand for. they want to know the changes that we will make and the differences those changes will make. and it want to know some things about me. are we really up to it? are we really going to make that difference? and it is those questions that i want to take the time to answer today. what sort a party are we? when you decided that for for five years ago when you elected me as your leader. we decided then that we wanted some of our party to get back in touch with the country that we wanted to govern. i did not do that on my own -- you did it. it would shoot that rode out the placard's, that marched on the street, that campaign to save our community hospitals, are surgeries, you is you that make sure that for the first time in our history we could look the

people in the face and say that we are the party of the national home service and you should be proud of that. it was you who campaigned and local election after local elections under the slogan and demonstrated that we were the greenest in britain and we are the new environmental party in britain, and you should be proud of that, too. and it was you, not me, but you that selected those brilliant women candidates including right here in brighton who is going to win the next election. it was you who selected as

candidates, so that instead of 18 women mp's on the conservative side, there were more than 60. and you have selected black and ethnic minority candidates, right across our country. not in marginal seats but in safe, conservative seats. and for people to say to me that this was fate, i would say think of the young, flatfooted boy looking at parliament and britain and thinking what is my role and how i am going to get on? even the tory party, and you can see all of these candidates and say i belong here and this -- they belong here and so can i..

and think about that young person thinking about her role in modern britain who was able to switch on the television and watch and prime-time television one question came as this woman destroyed that ghastly peace, but griffin, and say, if yes, the tory party as my party, too. that's what we've done as a party. we can now look the british people in the eye and say this

country, our country, this tolerant, compassionate, brilliant, multiracial country, we are with you. we are like you. we are for you. we are ready to seve you. this modern conservative party made its choice and it's never going back! [applause] so that's what this party is. and what do we stand for? well, first of all let's get something straight about this election. this election is not a referendum on the government. this election is not a referendum on the conservative party. this election is a choice. it is a choice between five more years of gordon brown or change with the conservative

party that has got the energy, that has got the leadership, that has got values to really get this country going. and this change we talk about is not some airy-fairy concept, not undefined, it is based on some very clear and conservative values. take our economy. what we need in our economy today is the value of aspiration. we're not going to get a recovery from the government. we need a recovery from the private sector, from business, from individuals. we need this to be a country where people want to set up a business, take people on, make money, get ahead, have a sense once again that this country is about opportunity for all. i had a small businessman came to my surgery the other day and he said every year i have to try to drive down my costs and improve the quality of goods i

sell to my customers. why on earth can't my government do the smame -- same thing? that is the value we mean. the change we need in our society. it's not some sort of vague change. it's based on a very clear principle, a very clear value of responsibility. we think the responsible society is the good society. we believe in standing up and helping those people who want to do the right thing, not the wrong thing. i was on a radio phone-in in kent the other day and a young man rang up and said that he'd got his girlfriend pregnant and he wanted to move in with her and together to bring up that child and give it the best start in life but he'd found out that if he moved in with his girlfriend she would lose her benefits and be much worse off, so he couldn't do it. what sort of crazy country

sends a signal like that to people who want to do the best for their families? that's the change we've got to bring in this party. that's the value that we aspire to. and when it comes -- [applause] and when it comes to change in our politics, again it's not some vague change. it's not changing one group of politicians for another group of politicians. it is real change. that says it is time to give people power and control over their lives. i think of all the people i meet in their 20's and 30's who say so -- to me i can have so much freedom and choice and control about where i live, where i work, where i shop and where i travel, why when it comes to my school or my hospital or my government or my parliament or politics do i have so little control over

what's done in my name? this party's always believed in people power, not state power, and that's the change we need in our politics. so those are the principles, the values we believe in. aspiration and opportunity for all. responsibility in backing people who do the right thing and giving people more power and control over their lives. now let me try and answer the third question. the specific changes that we're going to brick and the -- bring and the differences that they will make to people's lives. belter start with the economy because that is going to be the key issue this election. that is why our country is in such danger at the moment and let me say something very directly to gordon brounlt gordon brown thinks he's the economy man. he wants everyone to say -- believe that he's some sort of economic genius. what sort of genius is it that doubles the national debt? what sort of genius is it that

takes one of the best pension systems in europe and wrecks it? what sort of genius is it that complicates the tax system, that stirs up the benefits system, that drives down our competitiveness and drives up the tax rate? that is not genius, it's incompetent and in this coming election we're going to take out your record and tear it apart piece by piece. now, the big argument as you heard from george osborn yesterday is going to be about our deficit and the clear and present danger it holds over our whole economy. and there's going to be a big argument about this deficit. labor will say that if you do anything, literally anything to cult any piece of government spending immediately you will

somehow tip the country back into recession. we say that is nonsense. we say that if you don't do anything, you will see interest rates go up, you will see mortgage rates go up, you will see confidence drained away from our economy and the country will go back into a deeper and darker recession. and on our side we have a growing number of not just economists but also business people like richard branson and frankly half the country's retailers who never stop telling me that think want the government to get to grips with its own finances. the government will produce its own economists and there will be a great argument but i think we should be kfed -- confident about this. i think the british people know that we're right. that when you've maxed out on one credit card it's not the right thing to rush off and get another one. they know as with their own debts the longer you leave it the worse it gets.

as we make this bold, brave argument that we've got to roll up our sleeves and deal with our deficit and our debt we should have the confidence that we're right and we're going to win that argument with the british people. dealing with the deficit isn't the only change that we're going to bring because to get our economyñr growing we've got to do more than just deal with the deficit, with early action and a proper plan. we've got to get this economy moving again. we've got to get people investing again and that's why we're going to have that emergency budget in 50 days. that's why we're going to cut the main rate of corporation tax, cut the small company rate of corporation tax. that's why we're going to scrap the national insurance on the new businesses setting up on the first 10 jobs that they take on. that is why we're going to unleash enterprise, not the

forces of hell but enterprise again in this country. and you know what? gordon brown sometimes says that i'm a bit of a salesman. and you know what? i plead guilty. and i'll tell you why. because in this country with all our difficulties we are going to need some salesmanship. i want to get out round the world, not filling up the airplane with journalists but filling it up with businessmen. i want to get out there and sell our country to the world, say these are the companies you should be doing business with, this is the place you should be investing, britain is the best place in the world to come and set up and invest i want a really clear message to go out that arbitrate -- britain is under new economic management and we are open for business again. [applause]

those are the changes we want to bring to our economy. changes based on the value of aspiration, changes that will get our country moving again. so in this party we don't just dream of a stronger economy, we dream of a stronger and richer society. and some people say to me that i'm wrong to talk about the broken society. but i say when you've got the height -- highest rate of family breakdown in europe, when you've got one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy, when there are a million violence -- violent crimes every year and 100 knife crimes every day, when children starve to death in birmingham and no one does anything about it, which bit of "broken society" don't these people understand?

and we want to make big changes, really big changes to build the stronger society. we're going to start with the most family-friendly manifesto that any party has produced in british political history. we're going to set out how we're going to recognize marriage in the tax system, how we're going to support couples in the benefits system, how we're going to gib the right to flexible to everyone with children up to the age of 18, how we're going to have a new army of health visitors to help mom and dad when the new child arrives, how we're going to do all these things to help all of our families in all of oush -- our country. but we know that helping families is not just about tax or benefit or regulation or laws, it's also about culture. anyone bringing up children like me has that dread of switching on the television and you're bombarded with commercial messages, of going down to the shops and there are

shings -- things you wouldn't want a 25-year-old to wear, let alone a 5-year-old, and the worry you have for the future. are they going to be sold alcohol and cigarettes and everything at an age before they're allowed to in so we've got to change the culture as well as the law. we've got to say to those television companies think about the messages that you're putting out to our children. we've got to say to those retailers think about the messages you send with the products that you sell. and to our licensed premises and bars and convenience stores and supermarkets and the rest of it, stop selling alcohol to people under age. to all those people who have been trashing family values in our country for too long, this has got to change.

the most important thing to britain's families and the most important thing to my family has been the national health service. and it was at a conference like this that i stood up and said that you could sum up my priorities in just three letters, n.h.s., and if anything the feeling has got stronger ever since then. i'm not saying our n.h.s. is perfect. i've seen in recent years the great side of our n.h.s. in the treatment my own family received, but i've also seen what happens when it goes wrong. i don't think i'll ever forget going to stafford and meeting with some of the families whose relatives have been into that hospital sometimes with minor ailments and they've been treated so badly by a hospital that was pursuing targets and wasn't managing itself and had bad standards of care than -- and those people have died completely unnecessarily. so i know we've got a lot to do to improve our national health

service, but i believe i've got the ideas to change it. let's get rid of that bureaucratic top-down, bossy interfering culture and judge it by the results that he cheeve president but i want everyone in this country as they go up to put that cross in the box at the next election to heir prime minister, as a parent, a politician, a person, be i love the i will always stand up and protected. -- and protect it. the families are the first line of defense, and our schools and education system must be the second line of defense. i think when you look at our

plan, you can see the most radical program for reforming education that any party has produced in an election. i will tell you why it is so important. . wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww >> there are people who mortgage themselves. when they pay their taxes, they should get a great state education. there is so much talent in our country that is left untapped country that is left untapped because we did not have great schools in every part of our country. we are going to bust open the state monopoly. sometimes a small schools, so we can have the diversity, choice, and competition that is there in the private sector for the wealthy. it is not magic, what a good

it is not magic, what a good sometimes a small schools, so we can have the diversity, choice, and competition that is there in the private sector for the wealthy. it is not magic, what a good school looks like. we all know, it is a school with a uniform, with discipline, where children get up from their seats when an adult walks into the room. where we get the basics right. these are things we should have in all our schools with all our children, and with the team led by michael gode, that is exactly what we are going to get. [applause] wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww to those who say labor tried some of these things, i will say this. when your not having to cut deals with the teachers' union, just imagine what you could achieve. we'll have the attention to detail that has been so lacking.

michael and i were looking at the history curriculum recently. their only to historical figures mentioned. i am a huge fan of wilberforce, he was a conservative. william has written a book about him. is still available at all good bookshops. what happened to churchill? what happened to florence nightingale? what happened to the heroes of the industrial revolution? britain has the proudest history of any country in the world. is it too much to ask that we teach our children about it? [applause] as we need to be radical in reforming our schools, so we need to be reticle in reforming

our welfare system. it is simple. we are compassionate conservatives. we believe in helping those who cannot help themselves. if you cannot work, you deserve to be supported. you deserve support that will allow you to lead a reasonable and good quality of life. you can work, or find it hard to work, we will help you. we will train you. we will unleash the private and voluntary sectors who often do it better than the state. but if you can work, you are offered work, and you do not choose to work, you cannot go on claiming benefits as before. [applause] there is one group of people who i know what to your very specifically from us about the

benefits and the pensions that they receive. that is britain's pensioners. i share their frustration, that they have been told by a party after party in manifesto after a manifesto and document after document that we are going to link the pensions back with earnings rather than prices. i believe we in this party really can look them in the eye and say that we will do it. why? because we made the top choice. we have said that from 2016, we are going to move the retirement age a year later. believe me, i have had quite a lot of e-mail's from people in their late fifties who are not happy about this. i believe we have the right argument. people are living longer in this country.

people are having longer and have your retirements, and it is trite to say we should move at retirement age. ñiabove all, it enables us to lk britain's pensioners in the eye and say you deserve security, dignity, and a good quality of life in your old age, and we will link the pension back with earnings. that is a promise. [applause] those are some of the changes we are going to bring to our economy and to our society. i think we all know after the last year, we need someñi big changes, some really big changes when it comes to our politics. i am proud of the fact that when it came to the expenses, it was this party that acted first. we were the first to get mp's to pay back money. we were the first to make them put openly, a transparently, everything that they claimed on the internet, and it was this

party that was the first to say these perks and benefits have got to go. if we think that just dealing with the expenses will solve the problems, we have not understood what is wrong. people are incredibly frustrated with our political system. they see this great big, expensive, bloated bureaucracy at the top, and then they see so many things where they have so little control. a radical plan is to deal with all of these things. we will start at the top and say it is time to cut the size of the house of commons. it is time to freeze ministers' pay, having cut it by 5%. it is time to cut a third of the white hall bureaucracy. it is time to put our government on a diet. we are really going to look those regions, and we will say those special strategies, most of their regional development agencies, the whole lot is

going. [applause] when you look at almost any one of our policies, they are all about giving people more power and control over their lives. look at our housing policy. it is about scrapping housing targets and allowing local areas to decide what to build and where to build it. when you look at our energy policy, is about saying if you generate some of your own electricity, it will be paid for

it to make you more independent. it is about driving power downward and outward, giving people power and control over their lives. those are the changes we want to make. i have talked a bit about our party and what it stands for. i have talked about the values we will stand up for. i have talked to about specific changes we are going to make. the fourth thing was about me, and what people should expect. all i can say is ended four 0.5ó years of doing this job, every day that goes by pg&e 4.5 years of doing this job, i feel i have would it takes to turn this country around and get it moving again. that is what we badly need to do. [applause] i want to tell you some of the things that people should expect from me every day between now and polling day and every day i am in government if we win thati] election.

the first thing is a sense of urgency. we are in a deep hole right now in this country. ñiñiour deficit is a dark;orñr d hanging over us. we cannot put off what needs toi be done. we have to roll up our sleeves and get on with it. i want people to know that from day one, that is exactly what we will do. i think people also wantw3 frankness. people are fed up with the slogans and the sound bites and the attempt to simplify it all. we are all guilty. people really understand that the economic changes we have to make to deal with our deficit will be tough. people know that the changes we need to make in our society will be difficult, and we will have to confront some really deep, vested interests.

ñithe same goes for turning around our politics. when i say we need to be frank about business problems, i mean all of them. we have an energy crisis looming, and we need to tell people that if we do not invest in some extra capacity now, the lights are going to go out. it will spell that out clearly. people want to speak frankly about the issue of immigration. it has been too high for too long, and it needs to be cut. i will cut it, and we have set out recently, sensibly,calmly, how that will be done. let's be frank about it. we are not going to turn around our education system unless we are radical from day one.

we will not sort out the welfare system and make sure it genuinely helps people and does not allow you to live an idle life through choice unless we are radical. that is what inspires all of these people sitting behind me. they are not in this to have some comfortable limousine with a life as a minister. we are doing this because we want to change our country for the better. the final thing people expect from me, and they should expect from me, is a sense of optimism. yes, sometimes in this country with all our difficulties of the deficit and the debt and the social problems and the political system gone wrong, it can feel like we are looking down some dark tunnel. but there is a bright light at the end of it. just imagine, if you can, what our country could be like if we did all the things we have been talking about today at this conference and in our manifesto. imagine what it would be like if instead of having so many 6 schools, we have the best state

schools in europe that people want to send their children to. imagine if instead of a country where we have a closed sign over our economy, it is the best place to invest and set up business, to get things moving again. imagine if we had a welfare system that really gave people a hand up rather than just a handout. we have to inspire people with the potential of what we can be in this country. an optimistic we are that if we take the country on this journey, we can achieve it. at all together. what does it mean? the sense of optimism, this urgency. i think we need to give people a sense that if we make these difficult decisions, we will say yes, we did these difficult things, but we came through it together. we need to give people a sense that being a citizen of britain is not about just paying your taxes and obeying the law. is about being part of something bigger than yourself.

a sense that you are really part of a big and rich and vibrant society. i want us to be a country that feels like a community. that is what are optimistic ambitions should be all about. so there is. that is what we have got to do in these last 70 days. remind people what sort of a party we now are. tell them about the values we stand for. set out the changes we are going to make to make this country a better place, and demonstrate that we have the leadership, values, and ambition to make this country great again. as you go out there and campaign, i want you to do it

fortified with two things in your mind. the first is that every day, everyday gordon brown is running this country is a gray day in britain. another day we are wasting opportunities, another day when this country is not being all it can be. i also want to think of this. think of the great changes we can make in this country. we are an amazing people in this country. when we get knocked down, we do not roll over and die. we get up and fight. i want you to think of the small businessman who has a great dream to make his business take on the world and win it for him. i want you to think of the mother with young child desperate for a great school so that her child can still fulfill our dreams and ambitions. i want you to think of the nurse, the doctor, the teacher, the probation officer, all who went into public service but

feel crushed by the weight of bureaucracy. i want you to think of the incredible dark depression of another five years of gordon brown and say no, no, we are not going to do that. so come on, then, let's get out there and when it for britain. -- win it for britain. [applause] >> last week, british prime minister gordon brown also laid out his party's platform at an event in coventry, england. he talked about key issues for the labor party. this is 20 minutes. ♪

♪ ♪ çó[applause] >> can i say first of all, i am privileged to work with such a brilliant deputy leader and champion of equality as harriet harman. [applause] we have the chancellor of the exchequer who is renowned throughout the world, and i am very proud to work with alistair darling. [applause] leading the fight against unemployment is someone who is getting young people back to work every day, every week, and every month. thank you, yvette kupfer.

[applause] i am just a prime minister. peter mendelson is a president three times over. president of the board of trade, president of the council, and presiding with douglas alexander in harriet harman over our election campaign, thank you for everything you are doing, peter. [applause] since the tories have reduced the media appearances of the shadow chancellor, someone said he had lost the art of communication, but not the gift of speech. the tory party is down to one, but i am proud to be part of a team that is the most experienced, the most determined team that labor has ever fielded in an election campaign.

we are proud of them all. [applause] there are only 76 days left until the council elections. i wish every labor candidate fighting under our better success in these great elections, with the council to come very soon. [applause] someone asked me the other day what my secret weapon was for the general election. i think they were expecting me to say those airbrushed posters. the greatest money labor has never spent. you know what our secret weapon is? it is our beliefs. it is the policies that flow

from our beliefs. this election will be one or lost not on who has the best pr, but on whoseñr values best reflt the aspirations of britain's mainstream majority. the coming contest is a big choice about who is best for britain's future, who is best for the economy, who is best for the health service, who is best for policing, schools, and for britain's place in the world. you have to ask yourself, why am i lookingñi forward to this contest wore than david cameron? it is because only a few labor have a plan for britain. how we can realize britain's values in a future that is fair for all. labor has a record we can be proud of. every community in the country, we see new schools, new hospitals, more teachers,

doctors, nurses, police. that is the change the tories never talk about, but that is the change we see. [applause] it is jobs created and families held together. it is education for all. we can be proud of the britain we have been building together. dreams a cheap, ambitions realize, hopes fulfilled, and lives -- extremes achieved, and lives change. we should be proud, but never satisfied, because our work is not yet done. elections are not verdicts of the past, their choices for the future. we will go into this election fighting for causes every inch as great and every inch as noble as any of government has bought four before. we are fighting today for an

ideal as visionary as the national health service. the dream of a national care service to take the fear out of old age. we are fighting for a future where for the first time, every single young person of this generation has the guarantee of training, of a job. we are fighting for a future where britain is not isolated but is a leader of europe, a country that has led the world and will continue to lead the world in protecting our planet and securing justice for the poor. with the investment we are making, we can now hope for a future we have never dared to hope for before, one where we beat cancer in this generation. today we are setting out our plan to build that future for all. first, we must secure the recovery, not put it at risk. second, we must support industries for future jobs.

third, as we reduce the deficit by half, we must protect services. fourth, we must end up for the many, not the few. i want to talk to you today about how i have changed and what i have learned. for me, the lesson of the crisis is that we need to renew our faith in the britain that believes in hard work and enterprise and responsibility. it is the britain of the family who works hard to pay their way and play their part. the britain of a business who takes on an apprentice when times are tough. is the britain of communities that stick together even when the going is hard. i have concluded that the very values that made our country great, the values of fairness and responsibility, are the surest foundation of our future success. markets are essential.4+$zm=ndñn and give us the resourcesñi to

fight poverty, iflorance, and disease. they serve the cause oli freedom and prosperity. xdxdñibut it is now more clear n without that, they go astray. that focus on the price of things, not the value of things. it causes people to take reckless risks for which others have to pay the price. we have to say a new debt markets should serve the public, and not the other way around. we are insuring that the public money that was put into the nation's banks is fully repaid. we have raised the tax rate of earnings above 100 dd thousand and set a pick% tax on this year's bonuses over 50,000. we have restructured our banks and are insuring they have the capital they need. we are discussing with other countries the prospect of a global levy on banks that would help us achieve our domestic objectives as well as tackle global poverty and climate change.

we are making these changes because britain needs to rebuild. we will review -- renewed the economy. we will renew our industrial base. that is why we decided that as a nation and as a government we will back british science and scientists. we will invest in the renewable energy of the future and give priority to biotechnology and advanced manufacturing. we will encourage digital and creative industries. it is labor that has the vision of a new economy, a decade in which britain can lead and succeed. we are determined to reduce the deficit that emerged as a result of the recession. we have already announced tax changes and will take tough action on spending, not just efficiency drives, but cuts in some areas. our bottom line is, we will protect the front lines, our schools, hospitals, and police.

it is only labour who are prepared to offer direct support to the business community. a total of 1 billion pounds, so that every household and business has access to the new is high-speed broadband. it is only labor that has a plan to make britain a world leader in a market for clean energy goods and services, opening up the prospects of perhaps 400,00 new green jobs for the british people. only labor has raised a number of apprenticeships this to nearly 250,000 young people this year. it is only labour who are targeting investment in manufacturing centers around the region to help u.k. business develop the best-selling products of the future. my message to the people of britain today is simple.

i know that labor has not done everything right, and i really know that i am not perfect. but i know where i come from, and i know what i stand for. and i know who i came into politics to represent. if you are from britain's mainstream majority, from an ordinary family that wants to get on and not simply get by, then my message to you today is simple. take a second look at us, and take a long, hard look at them. [applause] take a second look at how we are creating the jobs of the future,

and take a long, hard look at how the day after an election, their policies would put the recovery and your job at risk. take a second look at our nhs guarantees, and take a long, hard look at their plans to cut your right to see a cancer specialist within two weeks, to cut your right to see a gp on evenings and weekends, to cut the right to get your operation in the shortest possible time, and take a second look at how we will improve the prospects for your children. then take a long, hard look at their plans that hurt middle- class families. plans to cut your child's trust fund, and to cut the budgets of our schools. can they really say they understand the needs of mainstream britain when they would take away the letters of

opportunity that guarantee young people training for a job? can they really say they understand the needs of mainstream britain when they think that most in need of a tax cut or the 3000 wealthiest estates in britain? can they really say they understand the needs of mainstream written when they now vote to keep hereditary seats in the house of lords? when they think legalizing fox hunting is somehow a priority? when they think that manchester -- 54%, more than half the girls of liverpool are pregnant by the time they are 18. and they claim they know mainstream britain, when clearly they understand so little of how we live? when it comes the most gullible people in our society, if you

put partisan point scoring before a consensus of social care, real families really suffer. if you frighten people with made of statistics on crime and take away the very dna that we use to catch criminals, real families release over. if you talk written down in the middle of a recession on underlying confidence, real families really suffer, because government is not a game. when you peel away the veneer and actually look at what their policies mean, what you see is not the new economics of the future. it is the same old conservative economics of the 1980's. how can they be the party of change when they have not even changed themselves? it is precisely because they have notçó changed that they cannot and will not join the emerging progressive consensus of the british people, a

consensus which is coming together around the big challenges that our country must meet and master in this new decade. just consider climate change. it is a huge challenge facing all humanity on which we agree with the scientists, the green campaigners, and business leaders throughout our country that urgent action is vital, but which the tory party high command has now said is not even for them a top-10 policy priority. or think about our industrial policy and the british jobs of the future, and take one example, high-speed rail, a project of vital importance to the future of our country. vital importance here in the midland's. the tories have chosen to put short-term political parties ahead. yesterday they boycotted the campaign groups, the charity's

trying to find common ground for the future of social care. take the renewal of politics, like the way we elect the house of commons and reform the house of lords, where we made common cause with the liberals a cause where is the big progressive majority is for change, and only the tories ruled out any change at all. all they have done is to change their appearance, to give the appearance of change. where the challenges of the future are the greatest and the need for change is the most urgent, the conservative party has become again what the historical role has always been, to set themselves against the change the country needs, the change the british people want to see. so today, i say to every progressive in britain, of every hue and of every background, if you believe in a progressive future for all, then new labour

is your home. if you believe in securing the recovery, not putting it at risk, then new labour is your home. if you believe in protecting and not cutting front line services, then new labour is your home. you believe in supporting future jobs and not leaving it to chance, then new labour is your home. if you believe in standing up for the many, not the view, then new labour is your home. to those who are beginning to wonder how to use their vote, ask yourself whether you believe in fairness and individual opportunity. asked whether you want to keep on the road to economic recovery or to return to the same old social divisions of the tory years. today i issue a call to every

progressive to come together to fight for the values we cherished and for the country we love. this campaign is not going to be one somewhere else by someone else. it will be one street by street, school day by school day, workplace by workplace, and it is going to be won by you. if you believe in taking this country forward, not backwards, then labour or the changemakers in this election. that is why labour supporters are campaign with all the fire and fervor of those who have not just candidates, but up costs, a future to fight for. don't ever stop believing that every single child has worked. do not ever stop believing that every single person has something to contribute. don't ever stop believing that a prosperous country can be a fair one, too, and don't ever stop believing that everything you do in the coming weeks will matter,

that you can make the difference. don't ever stop believing that a future fair for all is in your hands. it is ours to shape. it is ours to build, and it is ours to win. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] ♪ ♪

>> of next, a discussion on intelligence gathering and then a hearing on job creation. also, representative charles rangel's statement to the house ethics committee. >> tomorrow, on "washington journal," will englund and patricia murphy. also, john castle lonny -- lonnycastellani. and then dr. cecil wilson here and spent -- on c-span.

>> tomorrow, house majority leader steady haulier talks about theçó president's recently created commission. you can watch his remarks live at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on c- span. >> monday, on the communicators, senator patrick leahy kicks off the congressional internet caucus which highlights internet technologies. >> the new c-span digital library is an archive of the c- span programming over 157 hours of video is now available to you with baathist -- is fast and free. intelligence gathering. this took place at kansas state

university. the event had to be moved to another building because of an incident that is referred to here. we pick it up after introductory remarks from general richard miers. [applause] >> thank you for that kind introduction. it is a great pleasure to have such a distinguished graduate as a former colleague and such a good friend. i have done little intelligence on this occasion, and i was told that bomb threats were primarily exam week phenomenon, so i thought i was that, but apparently that was not very accurate either. thanks very much to all of you

for your flexibility in changing being used and for sticking with it. i will be signing class excuses to miss the rest of the afternoon right after these remarks. as someone who has spoken year before, general miers knows the pressure i am feeling right now, having to follow in the distinguished footsteps of senator bob dole, secretary of defense bob gates. these were native kansans who had an inherent advantage. presidential, dr. regan, thank you for the opportunity to get the word out about the good things the u.s. intelligence community is doing now. i think most of you know that, and we heard in the introduction, that dick is a fighter pilot, which means that even when he is on the ground, he likes to drive fast in his corvette around northern virginia. you have probably seen him at the annual harley days football game, riding his bike around the building. he is well known in the

washington, d.c area for writing that bike during the rolling thunder run, when hundreds of thousands of bikers converge on the nation's capital on memorial day and ride together to show support for the efforts to find veterans who are still missing from our past conflicts. when the general was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, he always wrote his harley in and rode around with those who are supporting the veterans. i am not a biker myself, but i can appreciate the intelligence that general myers gathered on the road. i recently found a document that i swiftly declassified so i could share it with you. that is one of the things i do. [laughter] it was called "richards rules of the road." it contained a number of

nuggets of wisdom distilled over the ages, such as, when you are writing in the lead, do not spit. well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck. there are those who have crashed and those who will crash. if you really want to know what is happening, look at least five cars ahead, and never be ashamed to unlearn an old habit. dick, thank you for all the wisdom and for the friendship over many years. it is wonderful to see other leaders here from many fields. i would like to recognize a few other friends who are with us. randy o'boyle who headed the air force rotc program here for several years, and dale, a colleague of many years who invited the former first visit here in 2002.

he is a very distinguished scholar of the soviet union and of russia, and we once took a trip together over to russia. and the soldiers of the big red one. the headquarters is over in iraq right now. my background is navy, but i have learned to speak a little army. your honor us all with your presence, and we thank all of you for coming. [applause] i understand that this sort of greeting is typical of away our troops are supported in this area day in and day out. junction city and manhattan have become famous for their

hospitality and care for the big red one. it is a remarkable relationship. i understand there are partnerships between the sports teams and first division units, with personal visits back and forth to see what it is like to be in the other person's shoes, or boots. videos from the latest games are sent to those on deployment. the women's basketball team with the first brigade, and the men's basketball team with the field artillery, first lightning. this is the only place i have heard that has such an amazing and wonderful program. we all appreciate it who have served time in uniform. ladies and gentlemen, it is a special privilege, as you can see, for me to be here in kansas state university. i have been tremendously impressed by this institution, not just a beautiful campus, but i am impressed by the breadth of what you do, the broad range of

issues you engage in the life of the university. offering an outstanding education to students from around the country and around the world, you are working on the big issues that face our country both here at home and internationally. this afternoon i would like to talk about the intelligence community, who we are, what is we do, and some of the issues we are dealing with right now. before leaving this room, i would like to make a shameless pitch to some of you to come join us in the important work of intelligence. first, a quick description of

the intelligence community that i lead as the director of national intelligence. as the general mentioned, we are 16 different agencies, mostly parts of other parts of our government. the central intelligence agency is independent. the cia is responsible for human intelligence, recruiting spies, and also for taking the information collected by all the agencies to produce analyses for policy makers and four officials in the field. four of the biggest agencies are in the department of defense, the national security agency responsible for gathering communications, voice, video, and data from around the world. the national ngo spatial agency produces analyses, and videos and turns them into reports and maps. the defense intelligence agency primarily serves military officials and units in the field. the national reconnaissance office launches and operates the satellites that collect intelligence information from orbit. the fbi is responsible for

gathering intelligence on threats within the united states, and the homeland security department is also responsible for tracking threats in this country and working closely with state, local, and tribal law enforcement organizations. that leaves eight other members of the community that include the intelligence organizations from each of the five armed forces and from the state department, a financial intelligence organization within the department of the treasury, a nuclear intelligence agency in the department of energy, and the intelligence arm of the drug enforcement agency. just a simple description of the different parts of the intelligence community illustrates the complexity involved in bringing them together. the key is to integrate the 16 organizations so that viet mazing different abilities and

skills they bring are focused on the right mission and they can work together. that is really my job as director of national intelligence. the first step is to set the overall goals of the enterprise. we have done that international intelligence strategy. there are four. the first is to enable national security policies. we do that by monitoring and assessing the international security environment so we can warned policy-makers of the threats and alert them to the opportunities. we provide daily intelligence briefings to the president himself. our job is not to decide policies, but to make sure that those who do can make want -- wise policies. our second goal is to support national security action, and that means delivering actionable intelligence to diplomats, organizations and the

bill, and to domestic law enforcement organizations. this includes thousands of intelligence officers, provincial reconstruction teams throughout iraq, and the military units that are driving the taliban out of helmand province. we need to make tough choices to invest in the right new satellites, computers, information networks, aircraft, and software programs to make our intelligence officers even more capable in the next

generation. our four strategic goal is to function as an integrated team. these four goals for the intelligence community seem fairly straightforward. back during the cold war when our fundamental intelligence organization was put together, they probably would have been relevant. what has changed? there have been three major seismic shifts since that time that have made a fundamental difference to the intelligence community. these have affected all of our national security organizations, but especially important for intelligence. let me take you back to the first words ever uttered in a landon lecture by governor clinton himself. he said we must face the challenges of new realities of international life today. 23 years after he spoke those words, there was a big new

reality. the berlin wall came down. before then, our intelligence mission was to steal secrets about the soviet union. we recruited spies and recruited analyst to understand its military capabilities and its actions around the world. retrained linguists and drug tunnels -- dug tunnels. we built a huge ship to pick up a single submarine on the floor of the pacific ocean. when the cold war ended, it affected our inter approach to intelligence. in the 1980's, our primary focus on latin america was on what the soviets were doing in cuba and nicaragua and granada. ñinow after the cold war, we hae to understand the trends in the region more deeply on their own terms as well as in terms of threats and the opportunities they offer for the united states. let's let it just one country, colombia. it matters because it is the primary source of cocaine coming into the united states.

the intelligence community is expected to provide analyses of the drug organizations there. this intelligence is essential to solid american policies for colombia. the united states has assisted and is still insisting colombia to defeat the farq organization. the threat from a global competitor could destroy this country. it made the job intelligence agencies more complex and more difficult. we had been set up to focus on a single adversary over a long period of time. of a sudden we had to keep watch on the entire world in a more detailed and dynamic way, and covering threats to our national interest and be alert for opportunities to advance those interests. since the end of the cold war, depending on how you count, the u.s. has been involved in about

15 major deployments of military force. many of them have been to places we would not have predicted in the 1980's. bosnia, iraq, panama. for many areas in which there are crises, the intelligence community has been called on to understand a society, the issues, the country, the region. decisions were made as to whether we should use military or diplomatic tools. once a decision is made that the united states will act, the intelligence community was called on for a fine detailed intelligence. to stabilize troubled societies and establish long-term arrangements to put the country's back on their feet. the second hinge point, about the same time the cold war was ending, has been the information revolution. in the 1980's, the first

intermission networks began to be deployed in a serious way. it is not surprising that an information revolution would shake business intelligence to its core. intelligence is about collecting sharing and using information. networks changed our access to information and to one another. they totally changed how we do business. building and using data sources, sharing audio and video files so we can work lover to lee and more quickly. and so that we can -- so we can

work collaboratively and more quickly. the term "connect the dots" is often misused, but it has a large grain of truth. there are so many data sources, some that intelligence agencies maintained like files and satellite imagery, that goes back decades. some are available in the public domain, like research papers. the challenge is to find the right information, to understand its validity, and to put it in context, and to get it done in time for a policy maker in washington or an officer in the field to be able to use it. we use many of the tools familiar to you at k state. we use web sites that look very much like what you probably used to keep up with your fields of interest. rss feeds coming in with new information on the subject. links to previous information that has been done on a subject. unlike the open academic work, -- the open academic world, we have some constraints on working together. the more we linked our intelligence data sources

together, the more they become vulnerable. one enemies by can do more damage than one could years ago -- 1 enemy spy can do more damage than one could years ago. while we take advantage of all the tools of the information revolution, we have to build a security features on are connections, and these are expensive, and a slow us down some. the information revolution is giving us better tools to do our job. it is important because it is fundamentally collecting -- affecting our collection of information as well as sharing and analysis. the information we want, in order to find out what others are thinking, is stored in shared in their networks, so that is where i go to get it. foreign governments communicate on networks. terrorist organizations like al qaeda use the internet to put out their messages. drug traffickers have to

communicate to sen shipments and receive payments. organizations which are interested in store their information electronically, not in paper and file cabinets. one of the major growth areas in gathering intelligence is penetrating foreign networks and bringing that information back to analysts to write reports to inform our policymakers. in this area, i cannot give you many specific examples, since they are classified. it is not difficult to imagine the value of being able to read the e-mail some foreigner who is involved in a plot against the united states. the third hinge point was 9/11 and the effect has been profound. as the 9/11 commission stated,

exposed internal barriers to sharing that prevented the intelligence committee from understanding the threat that was forming against us in the months leading up to that attack. our enemies were seamless, we were compartment. there were pieces of intelligence that were held but agencies that were not shared or analyzed to warn about a tax so that we could stop them. the difficulties of sharing between agencies that were focused on foreign intelligence and those that were focused on law-enforcement and domestic security on the other hand were laid bare by that incident. in addition, we discovered as a nation that our armed forces did

not defend us against every threat, that our nuclear weapons did not deter every enemy from attacking us. it was those 9/11 attacks and the investigations afterwards that led to legislation in 2004 that reorganized intelligence community in fundamental ways. the position of director national intelligence was established at that time in order to bring together a more integrated than an agile intelligence community and to address these new threats that were emerging. for the first time, domestic law enforcement and security organizations, the fbi, the new department of homeland security, were included in the intelligence community so that we understood threats. new organizations were established to focus different agencies on missions that all needed to work together. so here we are, 20 years since the end of the cold war, well into the information revolution, eight years since 9/11, five years since the director of national intelligence was established. how is it going? are we really as integrated and agile as we need to be? are we on top of developments in china, iran, and afghanistan, as well as al qaeda, and drug cartels, and global warming? my answer, after a little over

you are on the job, is that we are doing well, but we are not satisfied, and we still have to continue to evolve and improve. let me start with the subject of integration of the community, the sharing of information and teamwork. overall, we are more unified as a community than were five years ago. we do a better job of sharing intelligence and building mission teams to work on problems that we need different skills from different agencies to solve. as general myers knows, we -- with your something similar in 1986. legislation told the armed forces were together as a team. it took decades after that legislation to overcome all the negative aspects of rivalry among the army, navy, air force, and marine corps. i remember very clearly when and mha