[ UK Party Election Broadcasts May-June 2001 ]

[ COCOA references: 

B    Broadcast number
P    Party
M    Modality (SP= spoken, TX= written, SG= sung)
     An additional "X" at the end of the code means transcribed but
     not included for analysis, e.g. SPX is speech not to be
     analyzed.
G    gender of speaker - M, F or
     "N" = "neutral" when multiple speakers of both sexes. ]

[ Comments are in square brackets. ]
[ Abbreviations for party names:

CP  Conservative Party
GP  Green Party
LD  Liberal Democrats
LP  Labour Party
PC  Plaid Cymru (Welsh National Party)
SA  Socialist Alliance
SL  Socialist Labour Party (Scargill)
SN  Scottish National Party
UK  UK Independence Party    ]
<B 01>
<P PC>

[ comments: no names or titles are attributed to any of the speakers
except the last one. ]

<M SP>
<G F> [ "woman in black", #1, main PC presenter ]
At the coming election the people of Wales will have a clear choice. 
(.) A party that has turned its BACK on Wales (.) or a party (.)
that'll FIGHT back for Wales. (.) One that has taken Wales for
granted (.) or one that puts the people of Wales first. (.) A party
that looks after the rich and powerful (.) or a party that believes
in SHARing wealth (.) to create a fairer society. (.) The REAL fight
at this election (.) will be between New Labour, the party of London,
(.) or Plaid Cymru, the party of Wales.

<G M> [ young man, #1 ]
When New Labour got elected in 1997 (.) we were told that things
could only get better.  But all we've seen (.) is more of the same
Tory policies.  They say the economy is BOOMing (.) but all we've had
in Wales is one factory closing after another.  

<G M> [ older man, #2 ]
The way this New Labour government (.) have treated our former miners
(.) is nothing short than unforgivable.   In the three years since
this government (.) were forced to admit liability, (.) thousands of
miners have sadly died.

<G F> [ #2 ]
Lives will depend on our ability to improve our health record as a
nation.  (.) It will all cost.  (.) But you cannot put too high a
price on health, OR a decent health service. (.) That is why Plaid
Cymru, the party of Wales, (.) will press to increase spending on
health, (.) especially (.) to get extra resources to address the
shockingly high levels (.) of cancer (.) and heart disease in Wales.

<G M> [ #3 ]
We need economic policies that will give Wales a better chance (.)
and a fair share of wealth between the different parts of the United
Kingdom. (.) Labour, the party which the people of Wales have
supported for generations, (.) has turned its back on Wales.  It's
turned its back on the poor as well: the gap between the rich and the
poor has grown BIGger (.) since New Labour came into power.

<G F> [ #1 ]
The people of Wales voted Labour in 1997, HOPing for: (.) 
- A better health service - it continues to go from one crisis to
another.
- A better deal for our PENsioners - (.) but pensions have fallen
FURther behind average earnings.
- Investment in JOBS for our people - (.) over TWENty THOUsand jobs
in manufacturing (.) have been lost:
- A fairer distribution of wealth - (.) under New Labour (.) the gap
between rich and poor (.) has widened.

<G F> [ #3 ]
All we got was a Tory government in everything but name.  Plaid
Cymru, the party of Wales, (.) is the ONly party (.) fighting back
for Wales.

<G M> [ Jones, #4 ]
Our message in this election is based on the needs of Wales (.) and
it is also relevant to the whole of Britain, (.)

<M TX> Ieuan Wynn Jones, President

<M SP> 
<G M> [ Jones, #4 ]
- to the future of Europe and the wider world. (.) We are the only
party in this election comMITted (.) to a fairer distribution of
wealth (.) and the creation of a fairer society; and we reject both
the (.) New Labour AND Conservative policies (.) of lower public
spending (.) so that they can keep taxes down (.) for the very rich. 

The truth is that New Labour has turned its back on the people of
Wales (.) and turned its back on the traditional values of equality
(.) and social justice.  And a vote for Plaid Cymru, the party of
Wales, in this election (.) is the only way to fight back for Wales
(.) and for a fairer society.

<M TX>
[ logo ]
Plaid Cymru
The Party of Wales [ all in green ]

18 Park Grove
Cardiff CF10 3BN
029 2064 6000
www.plaidcymru.org
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<P UK>

[ comments: there are written texts as well as speech here, with
newspaper headlines used to accompany the spoken words. ]

[ Footage of a burglar wearing an EU T-shirt breaking into "UK House"
and looting the valuables accompanies the first speaker's words.]

<M SP>
<G M>
Slowly but relentlessly (.) the UK's political and economic
independence (.) is being STOlen, (.) by stealth. 

[ sound of breaking glass ] 

The country is being asset-stripped (.) of its many cherished
institutions.  Its industries (.) and agriculture; (.) its fishing
grounds; (.) its laws, (.) traditions (.) and (.) democracy.  And
now, (.) with the impending economic monetary union, our very
nationality and independence are threatened.  But membership of a
European state (.) isn't inevitable.  Something CAN be done, and the
fast-growing UK Independence Party can do it. 

<M TX> [ top LH corner, stays on screen until replaced by other
version ]
[ logo] 0870 904 5050

<M TXX> [ newspaper headlines move across the screen ]

68% FEDERATION 
OF SMALL 
BUSINESSES VOTED 
TO LEAVE THE E.U.

Former Government 
Minister Joins UKIP

<M SP>
<G M>
The UK Independence Party is now the country's FOURTH LARgest
political party.  Over the past twelve months, membership has SOARed.

<M TXX> [ newspaper headlines move across the screen ]
œ20,000,000,000
SAVING BY
WITHDRAWAL

UKIP Election
Successes

<M SP>
<G M>
And in the European elections (.) the party returned THREE MEPs.

<M TX> Mike Nattrass, UKIP Party Chairman 
<M SP>
<G M> [Nattrass]
Other main parties are now copying our policies.  One has even had
the cheek (.) to steal (.) not only our BADGE (.) but our "Save the
POUND" slogan.  

<M TX> [ top LH corner, stays on screen until replaced by other
version ]
[ logo] 
P.O. Box 9876
Birmingham
B6 4DN

<M SP>
<G M> [Nattrass]
The UK Independence Party is the ONLY main party pledged to keep the
pound forever (.) AND to withdraw from the EU superstate (.)
completely.

<G M> [ original presenter ]
Surveys show that more and more people now want an independent
country.   

<M TX>
52%

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
A recent opinion poll (.) revealed that fifty-two percent of people
in Britain (.) believe we should LEAVE the EU altogether; 

<M TX>
71%

<M TX> [ top LH corner, stays on screen until replaced by other
version ]
[ logo] 0870 904 5050

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
while another showed that seventy-one percent don't want a European
currency.  

<M TX> [ top LH corner, stays on screen until replaced by other
version ]
[ logo] 0870 904 5050

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
We believe the EU is a failed, stagnating economy (.) 

<M TX>
STAGNATION
FAILURE

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
with seventeen million people out of work (.) and a shrinking share
of world trade.  It will be Britain's economic undoing, (.) infecting
us with high food prices, high unemployment AND high taxes.  

<M TX> [ top LH corner, stays on screen until replaced by other
version ]
[ logo] 
P.O. Box 9876
Birmingham
B6 4DN

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
Already (.) we are losing our legal system, 

<M TX>
LEGAL
SYSTEM

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
our pounds and ounces, 

<M TX>
POUNDS
OUNCES

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
our slaughterhouses (.) 

<M TX>
SLAUGHTER
HOUSES

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
and many other fundamental rights.  

<M TX>
BRITISH
CITIZENSHIP

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
We'll also lose control of taxation (.) permanently, (.) 

<M TX>
TAXATION

PENSION
FUNDS

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
and even our pension funds (.) will go to pay (.) for the EU's
MASSive pension debts.

<M TX> Jeffrey Titford, UKIP MEP

<M SP> 
<G M> [Titford ]
It's simply not possible to be in Europe and NOT be run by Europe. 

<M TX> [ top LH corner, stays on screen until replaced by other
version ]
[ logo] 0870 904 5050

<M SP> 
<G M> [Titford ]
More likely in Europe, RUINed by Europe.  No, (.) let us stand on our
own two feet and trade with the world.

<G M> [ original presenter ] 
In fact (.) Britain has the FOURTH LARgest economy in the world, (.)
with a MASsive portfolio of global assets.  

<M TX>
3  2  1
FINANCE CENTRE

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
London is one of the world's top three banking and finance centres,

<M TX>
MEMBER OF IMF [ vertically on screen ]

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
and the UK is a member of the WORLD Bank and the International
Monetary Fund.  

<M TX> [ top LH corner, stays on screen until replaced by other
version ]
[ logo] 
P.O. Box 9876
Birmingham
B6 4DN

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
Britain is a GLOBal trader, with most of its trade outSIDE the EU. 
For our future prosperity, Britain must remain a major world player,
NOT become a small European trader.

But let's be clear.  The UK Independence Party isn't anti-EuroPEan. 
We want to TRADE with the EU (.) but NOT be taken over by it. 

Neither Norway nor SWITzerland is a member of the EU, 

<M TX> [ top LH corner, stays on screen until replaced by other
version ]
[ logo] 0870 904 5050

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
but both enjoy excellent trading relations AND highly prosperous
economies.  Mexico has secured trading terms with the EU (.) that are
just as attractive as member states, yet without the disadvantages
of membership.

<M TX>  
THE INDEPENDENCE DIVIDEND 
SAVING IS œ20 BILLION PER YEAR

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
It's not too late for Britain to regain its independence.  With its
MEPs, the UK Independence Party is already working with other groups
in the EU who also wish to leave, (.) 

<M TX> [ top LH corner, stays on screen until replaced by other
version ]
[ logo] 
P.O. Box 9876
Birmingham
B6 4DN

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
and they're exposing how the British people (.) have been deceived
over Europe.

<M TX> Nigel Farage, UKIP MEP
<M SP>
<G M> [ Farage ]

The EU is not demoCRAtic, it's a SHAM, and I know that when MEPs vote
HERE (.) they don't even know what they're voting for.  Each member
of the European Parliament costs the British taxpayer (.) one and a
quarter million pounds every year.  We should seek an amicable
divorce from the political European union (.) AND its replacement
with a genuine free trade agreement, (.) 

<M TX> [ top LH corner, stays on screen until replaced by other
version ]
[ logo] 0870 904 5050

<M SP>
<G M> [ Farage ]
which is what we THOUGHT we'd signed up for in the first place.

<M TX> [ overlaps with the first sentence of the next spoken bit. ]
71% WANT A REFERENDUM ON MEMBERSHIP
SO DO WE
LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
As a full party that expects to win seats in parliament, the UK
Independence Party has every chance of succeeding.  

[ during this last speech the "burglar" puts back everything he has
stolen ]

By voting for the UK Independence Party you can start the process of
reclaiming our economy, our laws, our pride and traditions, our
freedom of action, and (.) above all (.) our right to govern
ourselves.

<M TX> [ simultaneous with speech ]
UKIP [logo]
UK Independence Party
P.O. Box 9876
Birmingham
B6 4BN

Tel: 0870 904 5050
www.ukip.org

<M SP>
<G M> [ original presenter ]
Write to us now at PO Box 9876 Birmingham, and help make voting day
(.) UK Independence Day.

<B 03>
<P SL>
[ comments: the informal nature of this PEB makes it difficult to
transcribe.  There is quite a lot of dialogue, some backchannelling,
and even speakers talking simultaneously. There is some written text
- news footage with captions, and also screens with autocues.  These
have not been transcribed.]

<M SP>
<G M> [Tomlinson]
[ greeting someone not visible to the camera: ]
Y'all right kid?

<M TX> 
Actor Ricky Tomlinson arrives to take part in the Socialist Labour
Party's election broadcast

<M SP>
<G M> [Tomlinson] [ nodding to the camera: ]
All right?

<G F> [Scottish]
I think socialism will never be established in Britain till a
fashionable young man plonks himself down in a barber's chair and
says { "give me a Scargill". }

<G M>
{give me an Arthur Scargill. }
[ general laughter ]

<G M> [Scargill introduces Tomlinson to the other participants: ]
That's Harpal (..)

<G M> [ Tomlinson ]
Hi.

<G M> [Scargill ]
... Amanda (..)

<G M> [ Tomlinson ]
How do you do?

<G M> [Scargill ]
... Katrina from Greenham Common.

<G M> [ Tomlinson ]
Hiya ... Oh, hello!

<G M> [Scargill]
SHE'S been in prison longer than YOU have. 

<G M> [ Tomlinson ]
(?Good for you, yeah.)
[ unintelligible general mutterings ] 

<G M> [Scargill ]
When you spoke in Durham (.) last year, (.) the effect that (.) your
speaking had on that audience was [e-] electric.  They were seeing
Ricky, (.) whom they admire as [a- a-] a tremendous actor on
television, but they were seeing him (.) in his role as, er, a lad
who'd been VICtimised [RT:  right, yeah ] in the builders' dispute,
who'd been to prison and GONE to prison for his principles.

<G M> [ Tomlinson ]
They obviously changed the way I am and the way I think, [the-] the
way (.) [my-] my POLitics are, [and they-] and [I- I've never-]  I've
never forGOT the kindness shown by the miners and, [the-] you know,
the working class in general, sort of thing.

<M TX> Ricky Tomlinson, Actor and Trade Union Activist
<M SP>
<G M> [Tomlinson, to camera: ]
Who are YOU going to vote for in the general election?  Or maybe
you're not going to vote at ALL.  You might feel with some
justification (.) that there's no real DIFference between the main
political parties.

[ To others in studio: ]

[Nn -] I've noticed a change in erm, a very subtle change (.) in New
Labour.  As, in Liverpool, [most-] most of the Labour MPs were
ordinary working-class guys - [Eric Heffer,] Eric Heffer was a joiner
(.) [ AS: hmm ] on the sites [pe- pe-] people (?already come) and
[that-] that's all GONE.

<M TX>  health

<M SP>
<G M> [ Scargill ]
We've got 1.6 million people waiting for an operation NOW, and when
Labour came into power we'd got ONE million.  That's an enormous
increase [ RT: absolutely ] Bearing in mind that there's ten per cent
(.)  on the waiting lists DYing each year waiting.

<G F> [Howse]
This government has spent less on health than the Tories did, 

<M TX>  
Katrina Howse
Peace Campaigner, 
Defend NHS campaign

<M SP>
<G F> [Howse]
whilst hospital closures and health cutbacks (.) have continued
unabated.  Our health service (.) was once regarded (.) as the best
in the world.  To regain that position (.) requires immediate
additional expenditure (.) of fifteen billion pounds per year, (.) 
a cost EASily met (.) by cutting Britain's defence budget (.) by two-
thirds.

<G M> [ Tomlinson ]
What about that guy they put up in Gerry Bermingham's seat in Saint
Helen's, [what-] what's-his-name, the guy who defected from the
Tories (.) recently, erm

<G M>  [Scargill]
Woodward?  Sean Woodward?

<M TXX> [newspaper headline]
Woodward scrapes in

<M SP>
<G M> [ Tomlinson ]
[ exhales ] High unemployment, [AS: mm ] VERY deprived area, [AS: mm]
and this guy's a multi-millionaire, (?'cos we know how much he'll)
[AS: mm] have in common with the people of St. Helen's (?won't he?)
[AS: Yeah]

<M TX>  
education

<M SP>
<G F> [ Rose]
New Labour has simply continued to operate the TORies' policy in
education.  

<M TX>
Amanda Rose 
Lecturer & Trade Union Activist

<M SP>
<G F> [Rose]
In four years, nothing has been done to give practical help to
students, (.) teachers and ALL who work in the education system. 
Britain NEEDS an education system that meets the requirements of ALL
working-class children, (.) including those from ethnic minorities
(.) and students with disabilities.  Student grants MUST be restored,
and the iniquitous student loan system must be abolished.

<M TX> 
pensions

<M SP>
<G M> [Brar]
The only way to correct the injustice to Britain's pensioners is to
restore the link between pensions and average wages which the Tories
took away in 1979.  

<M TX> 
Harpal Brar
Retired, active 
campaigner against racism 

<M SP>
<G M> [Brar]
New Labour originally promised to restore the link (.) but once in
government have refused to do so.  If the link had been maintained,
a single pensioner today would be (.) thirty pounds a week better
off, whilst a couple would receive forty-eight pounds per week more. 
The Socialist Labour Party is committed to restoring the pensions
link.  The cost of giving justice for pensioners could easily be met
if Britain simply withdrew from the European Union.

[ footage of a pig eating from a bucket labelled "TROUGH OF
PRIVATISATION" ]
<M SPX>
<G M> [ recorded voice, off camera ]
Every one of the bosses has had their nose in this trough!

<M TX> Arthur Scargill 
<M SP>
<G M> [ Scargill ]
We have seen industry after industry privatised, first by the Tories
(.) and then by New Labour.  In turn we've seen these industries (.)
implement savage cut-backs, throwing thousands out of work, the
latest casualties being (.) in the car and steel industries.  

<M TXX> [ footage of union placards ]
GAS GREED CAMPAIGN
stop the fat cats

UNISON
GAS
GREED

<M SP>
<G M> [ Scargill ]
It's no wonder that the majority of people (.) now want to see ALL
these industries, particularly transport, taken back into public
ownership. The Socialist Labour Party (.) has got the policies and
the vision (.) to achieve this goal, and at the same time to deal
with homelessness,  (.) racism, (.) ignorance, intolerance and
injustice.

<G M> [ Tomlinson ]
So,  (.) there IS an alternative: you have a chance in this election
to vote for a party with real socialist policies.  I urge you to vote
on the seventh of June (.) for the Socialist Labour Party.

<M TX>
[logo]
contact us:
Socialist Labour Party
9 Victoria Road
Barnsley
South Yorkshire S70 2BB

[ previous bit remains on screen while this appears above and below
it: ]
tel: 01226 770957 
www.socialist-labour-party.org.uk

<B 04>
<P SA>
[ comments: no subtitles whatsoever!  Although the first speaker says
she will introduce both candidates and voters, there is no indication
of which is which. ]

<M SP>
<G F>
Like millions of others, (.) I voted Labour in 1997, (.) hoping for
a REAL change from the Tories.  But Labour privatised essential
services, (.) treat pensioners like second-class citizens, (.) and
even abolished free higher education. I'm Cecilia Prosper.  I'm a
Homeless Person's Officer (.) and a candidate for the Socialist
Alliance.  I'd like you to meet some of our candidates and
supporters.  This is Steve Johnson, who teaches History.

<G M> [Johnson]
One of the first changes Labour brought IN was introduction of
tuition fees and the scrapping of, er, grants for STUdents.  That had
an impact immediately on a (.) "A" level group I was teaching  - it
halved it [within a -] within a term  (.) as kids who were enjoying
the course [t] sort of apologised and said " Look [I -] I've got to
go and get a job because (.) my parents can't afford to send me to
college".

The Socialist Alliance is for a fully comprehensive education system
that's (.) funded according to need and not according to how well you
do in league tables.  It's (.) aGAINST selection, it's for reDUCing
class size, it's for imPROVing teachers' pay.  I think those sort of
steps would go a massive (.) way to improving the lot of pupils,
parents and teachers.

<G F> [Eisman]
I'm Karen Eisman, I'm a community nurse. To be honest, as a health
worker, if you didn't know there'd been an election four years ago,
you would not see any difference whatsoever, there's been an absolute
smooth transition (.) from the TOry policy on health to the LAbour
policy on health.  It's STILL the case that virtually EVery ancillary
worker, a crucial part of every team - your porter, your domestic,
(.) the switchboard, ALL those services - catering - er, all been
sold off to private companies, instead of working for the Health
Service (.) they will now work for private companies.  The pay is
ABsolutely appalling, lots of them are still on (.) BAsic minimum
wage with NO unsociable hours payments, and they TALK about (.)
having a modern matron in order to sort of look at (.) cleaning and
get cleanliness done, and just - oh, it's not POSsible to clean a
hospital well when you have about half the staff that you used to
have when those services were run by the Health Service.

<G M> [Rogers]
British pensioners are [the-] the lowest paid pensioners in Europe
with the exception of Greece.

<G F> [ Cecilia Prosper ]
Terry Rogers is a pensioner (.) who works TIRElessly for pensioners'
rights.

<G M>  [Rogers ]
We're the fourth major industrial country, richest country in the
WORLD.  You know, [it-] it is just (.) inHUman [that the-] that we
have [to-] to live under such paltry sort of pensions, you know.  We
need a proper (.) universal pension paid by right to EVErybody at a
proper level to keep them out of having to go [to-] to means-testing
[to- to-] to top up the pension (.) and the country's rich enough to
do that.

<G F> [Christian]
My name's Louise Christian (.) and I'm a lawyer, I represent rail
crash victims from Southall and Ladbroke Grove.  I've also
represented the victims of racial attacks.  I think the litmus test
of any government is how they treat vulnerable people, and this
government treats people who've fled persecution and torture in their
OWN country (.) in much the same way that they were treated before:
they lock them UP, they refuse them support, they leave them without
the means to WORK - they're not allowed to work - and they're not (.)
given enough support [t- ] to feed themselves properly.

<G M> [Tucker ]
The railways have been an absolute disASter over the last few years
since privatisation.  We've seen (.) fares go up, we've seen services
get worse, and above ALL we've seen a real problem with SAFEty on the
railways.

<G F> [ Prosper ]
This is Greg Tucker, a train driver.

<G M> [ Tucker ]
We want (.) all the different systems - the rail, the buses, the tube
- working together, a system that actually works, a system that's
[in-] (?something) with real investment in it, so that you don't have
to, in the countryside, er, wait DAYS for a bus to turn up.  So
[that's-] that's what it requires, an INtegrated system, (.) run by
the users of the system, the workers in the system, people who KNOW
what's actually needed, not (.) run for profit but run for public
need.

<G F> [ Prosper ]
From the crisis in our rural areas (.) to nuclear disarmament, (.)
the Socialist Alliance has something DIFferent to say. WE stand for
the interests of ORDinary people aGAINST the multinationals, and our
concerns DON'T stop with the borders on a map.  WE stand with all
those people everywhere who are trying to build a world without
poverty and inequality.  We have NO rich businessmen (.) or newspaper
owners in OUR corner: we rely enTIREly on you, (.) the working people
who need a voice.  We hope you support us: vote for us, and better
still, JOIN us.

<M TX>
[logo]
Socialist
Alliance
Tel: 020 7791 3138
www.socialistalliance.net

<M SP>
<G M>
For more information about the Socialist Alliance, ring this number. 
We're waiting for your call.


<B 05>
<P LP>
[ comments: The whole thing is a spoof trailer for a horror movie. 
It is even preceded by a "U" certificate.  Lots of sound effects. 
Slogans flash across the screen, also in the style of a trailer. 
Most of these match words in the spoken voiceover.  I have not
attempted to represent emphasis since virtually every other word is
heavily emphasised! The narrator is the same throughout. ]

<M TX> [ mock signatures in top LH and RH corners ]
Tory Policies Will Hurt:  U
the following movie trailer has NOT been authorised by the BBFC

<M SP>
<G M>
Just when you thought it was safe again (..)

<M TX>
THEY'RE BACK

<M SP>
<G M>
- they're back!

From the people who brought you "Economic Disaster, The Tory Years",
comes a series of sequels even more terrifying.

<M TXX> [ mock movie poster]
TOWERING INTEREST RATES [ rest of poster text illegible ]

<M SP>
<G M>
"Towering interest rates" (..)

<M TXX> [ mock movie poster]
THE
REPOSSESSED
NO HOME IS SAFE
FROM SPIRALLING TORY INTEREST RATES
[ rest of poster text illegible ]

<M SP>
<G M>
... "The Repossessed" -


- and now, with a new Tory production, 

<M TXX> [ mock movie poster]
ECONOMIC DISASTER II

<M SP>
<G M>
"Economic Disaster Two."

<M TX>
TERROR

<M SP>
<G M>
You remember the terror of the original Tory Economic Disaster. 

<M TX> 
Tory H.Q. 1989-1993

<M SP>
<G M>
You watched heartless and incompetent Tory politicians -

<M TX>
MISERY

<M SP>
<G M>
- hatch a reckless plan that led to misery for millions.

You've gasped in horror as the Tory shadow of disaster fell across
the nation.

No city, town or home was safe.  (..) People ran to avoid being
caught in its devastating path, yet it was still to unleash the force
of its fiscal fury.  

<M TX>
BLACK WEDNESDAY, 1992

<M SP>
<G M>
The Tory economic policy was dangerously, catastrophically out of
control.

It would have been funny (.) if it hadn't been so tragic.  As the
Tory shadow fell first on businesses, destroying jobs. 

<M TX>
UNEMPLOYMENT HIT 3 MILLION

<M SP>
<G M>
And then, (.) it came for your homes.  

<M TX>
INTEREST RATES HIT 15%

<M TXX> [ mock estate agent sign outside house ]
Brocklehursts
Estate Agents
AUCTION
SALE
Tel 023 654987

<M TX>
1.5 MILLION IN NEGATIVE EQUITY

<M SP>
<G M>
Families were suffering as this Tory economic disaster rampaged
uncontrollably onward.

<M TX>
400,000 PEOPLE LOST THEIR HOMES

<M TXX> [ mock estate agent sign outside house, same as above ]
Brocklehursts
Estate Agents
AUCTION
SALE
Tel 023 654987

<M TX>
1,000 BUSINESSES 
WENT BUST EVERY WEEK

<M SP>
<G M>
The Tory disaster you thought you had banished forever lurks just
around the corner.  (.) And now, they threaten to bring it all back. 

<M TX>
REMEMBERED IN ALL TOO VIVID TORYCOLOUR TM 
["Torycolour" is in blue with "TM" as superscript ]

[ Bottom LH of screen, under portrait: ]
STARRING 
Michael Portillo as Mr.Boom
[ Bottom RH of screen, under portrait: ]
INTRODUCING
William Hague as Mr. Bust

<M SP>
<G M>
Introducing Mr. Boom and Mr. Bust, whose policies could bring you
home repossessions, fifteen percent interest rates and twenty billion
pounds of public service cuts in Economic Disaster Two.  

<M TX>
ECONOMIC DISASTER II

<M SP>
<G M>
Don't let IT come to a home, (.) business, hospital or school near
you.

Only you can stop it on Thursday June the seventh.

<M TX> [stays on screen as more text appears around it]
Don't go back 
Vote Labour
on Thursday June 7th

<M SP>
<G F>
Vote Labour on Thursday June the seventh.

<M TX>
[ logo in top RH corner ]
08705 900 200
Labour

<M SP>
<G F>
To help Labour, call us on 08705 (.) nine hundred two hundred. 
That's 08705 (.) nine hundred two hundred.


<B 06>
<P CP>
[ comments: much of this is visual. ]

[ A female school student of Asian appearance is depicted trying to
do her homework ]

<M SP>
<G F> [ "student" ]
I just don't get this.  (.) Miss Wilkins could explain it, but she's
gone.  And Mr. Pritchard didn't last long - Gary and Lee made sure
of that.  (.) Hope the new one sorts them out.  I've got GCSEs next
year -  (.)  bet they open up the school for THAT.

<M TX> 
9 am English
[ school kids in shop stealing sweets]
Teacher shortages at their worse for ten years.

12pm Games
[ school kids setting fire to a car ]
10,000 teacher vacancies in secondary Schools.

2pm Maths
[ school kids buying and selling drugs ]
Some Schools on a 4 day week

3 pm Art
[ school children spraying graffiti ]
What are your children really learning under Labour?

4 pm School's Closed

NOT ALL PARTIES ARE THE SAME

Conservatives will offer parents 
discipline, standards and choice 
in schools.

[ the following are spoof TV or radio news reports ]

<M SP>
<G M> ["newsreader"]
There was more bad news today for the British economy (.) as it
continued its slide down the European growth table.

<M TXX>  [Headline in Financial Times ]
EU job
losses hit
new high

<M SP>
<G M>
Analysts claim that showing prices and reporting other financial
information (.) in both pounds AND Euros (.) is slowing down the
British economy.

[ Fisherman reading notice: ]
<M TXX>
EU DIRECTIVE
FISHING MONDAY
WEDNESDAY FRIDAY ONLY

PERMISSION DE P CHER
SEULEMENT LUNDI
MERCREDI ET VENDREDI

[ headline displayed behind newsreader: ]
<M TXX>
  INTEREST
RATES UP 1%

<M SP>
<G M>
The European Central Bank has imposed a one percent increase in UK
interest rates (.) in line with the rest of the European Union.  

<M TXX> [ notice on apples in market stall ]
CRISP BRAEBURNS
 2 PER KILO

<M SP>
<G M> [newsreader continues ]
Once again, there are major concerns from businesses throughout the
UK (.) about the financial power shift to Brussels.

The European Parliament today announced it's now in the final stages
of imposing an energy tax on companies of all sizes within the EU.

[ woman in office rips up EU document: ]
<M TXX>
[ EU logo]
E.U. Export Directive
Must be implemented by
March 1st 2003

[ violin music, chimes of Big Ben as a picture of a pound coin in a
museum is shown ]
<M TXX>
The Pound: c. 1500 - 2002

<M TX>
NOT ALL PARTIES ARE THE SAME

Only the Conservatives will 
keep the pound.

We want to be in Europe, 
not run by Europe.

[ new screen: ]
Vote for common sense. 
Vote Conservatives.  [ "X" to indicate vote]

freephone 0 8000 83 82 83
www.conservatives.com


<B 07>
<P LD>
[ Comments: the speakers apart from Charles Kennedy seem to be being
presented as voters, not party activists ]

<M TX> 
A real chance for real change.

Charles Kennedy

<M SP>
<G M> [ Kennedy ]
You know, our doctors and nurses do a fanTAStic job.  There's SO much
we have to be proud of (.) in our National Health Service.  And what
a disASter it would be (.) if the ConSERvatives came back with THEIR
plans for encouraging private health care AND a two-tier NHS. But you
know, Labour's been SUCH a big disappointment.

Take Eric Cooper, sick of the pain he had so long (.) and sick too
(.) of being made to wait.

<G M> [ Cooper ]
I'm not best pleased.  This is nearly two years from a referral by
my GP (.) to the actual operating table.

<G M> [ Kennedy ]
To cut waiting times, Liberal Democrats will provide more money. 

<M TX> [ display shows a counter with numbers running up ]
7500
NURSES
2500
DOCTORS

<M SP>
<G M> [ Kennedy ]
We'll pay for seven and a half thousand more nurses, and TWO and a
half thousand more doctors, (.) than Labour has planned.

And our pensioners deserve better too, don't they?  Who'll ever
forget the sheer STINGiness of that seventy-five pence Gordon Brown
increase.  Talk about adding insult to injury!  And THAT (.) after
all those years (.) of Conservative meanness.  PENsioners (.) should
be able to enJOY their retirement (.) but too many can't.

<M SP>
<G F> [Learmouth ]
We've been sort of left behind all our lives, I feel.  

<M TX> Betty Learmouth 

<M SP>
<G F> [Learmouth ]
We had the WAR.  (.) And then after the war, well we had (.) VERY
poor wages.  And then after you're married and (.) your husband goes
it's really back to nothing.  It's really really hard (.) when you're
a pensioner.

<G M> [ Kennedy ]
Liberal DEMocrats PROmise an extra five pounds on the basic state
pension, (.)

<M TX>
œ5 on basic state pension
œ10 for over 75's

<M SP>
<G M> [ Kennedy ]
- with TEN pounds for the over 75s -

<M TX>
œ15 for over 80's

<M SP>
<G M> [ Kennedy ]
- and FIFteen pounds for the over-eighties (.) 

<G M> [ Kennedy ]
AND free long-term care for ALL elderly people.

<M TX>
FREE
LONG-TERM CARE

<M SP>
<G M> [ Kennedy ]
Here's another worry: crime.  And you know, there's a very obvious
way to reduce it: RECRUIT (.) MORE (.) POLICE.

Geoff Jones runs a pub in Bristol, and he can see what happens (.)
when there aren't just enough police around.

<G M> [ Jones ]
There's a lot of crime in the area, it's been increasing over the
years and it's steadily getting worse.  We see our LOcal bobby from
time to time but he can't be in all the places at once, erm, it's a
difficult job FOR him but it is a worry [for-] for all concerned.

<G M> [ Kennedy ]
So Liberal Democrats will fund an extra six thousand police officers.

<M TX> [ counter again ]
6000
POLICE

[each slogan accompanied by a picture on left: ]
MORE DOCTORS 
& NURSES

HIGHER PENSIONS

MORE POLICE

<M SP>
<G M> [ Kennedy ]
We all want better public services, don't we?  And only the Liberal
Democrats have HONest plans to fund them.

<M TX> [simultaneous with speech of female presenter ]
Charles Kennedy
Freepost
London
SW1P 3BR

www.libdems.org.uk

<M SP>
<G F>
To find out more about the Liberal Democrats or to join the party,
write to Charles Kennedy, Freepost, London SW1P 3BR.


<B 08>
<P PC>
[ Comments: same presenter, in same clothes and with same background
music, as in Broadcast no. 1! ]

<M SP>
<G F> [#1]
It's time to fight back for Wales.  This is Plaid Cymru, the Party
of Wales's MESsage in this election.  Wales has been hit HARD in the
last twenty years by Tory and New Labour policies - policies (.) that
have turned Britain (.) into the most UNequal society (.) in Europe. 
We need higher public spending (.) to bring about a fairer sharing
of wealth (.) and better public services.  Hospitals, schools, public
transport MUST come before tax cuts for the rich.

<G M> [#1]
We need economic policies that will give Wales a better chance (.)
and a better share of wealth between the different parts of the
United Kingdom.  Labour, (.) the party which Wales has supported for
generations, (.) has turned its back on Wales.  And it's turned its
back on the poor as well; the gap between the rich and the poor has
grown bigger (.) since New Labour came into power.

<G M> [#2]
While Scotland got a Parliament, (.) Wales got a watered-down
Assembly.  It has all the powers in the world to find out what the
problems ARE, and none of the powers to adequately deal with them.

<G F> [#1]
By having their own Parliament the people of Scotland have been able
to provide free care for the elderly (.) and abolish student fees. 
EVery VOTE for Plaid Cymru the Party of Wales (.) means a vote to
have the same powers as Scotland.

<G F> [#2]
This government boasts endlessly about its extra funding on health,
(.) but in Wales (.) we see little effect of it.  Patients are
waiting longer for treatment, (.) hospitals are in disrepair, (.)
there's a crisis of care in the community (.) and the shortage of
staff throughout the NHS.  If we want a better Health Service (.) we
need to spend more (.) in the right places and on the right things.

<G M> [#3]
Schools and colleges in Wales are suffering, as we do not receive a
fair share of funding.  Education spending in Wales (.) is already
(?given) significantly lower per pupil than in England, (.) and that
gap will only widen over the next three years unless we receive a
better deal for Wales.

<G F> [#3]
Rail privatisation was an utter (.) disaster.  New Labour have
continued with the Tories' policies.  Plaid Cymru will fight to bring
(.) Railtrack back under public control.

<G M> [#4]
The devastation of the recent foot and mouth outbreak (.) has once
again (.) underlined the need to pump resources into (.) the rural
economies.  Plaid Cymru (.) is the only party committed (.) to
fighting for our rural areas and also (.) our urban areas.

<G M> [#5]
From London New Labour (.) we've had an economic policy (.) geared
not to the needs of Wales (.) but to the needs of the south-east of
England.  The policy of the high pound (.) has devastated (.) our
manufacturing and agriculture industries.

<G F> [#1]
All over Wales, people from all walks of life (.) are putting their
faith in Plaid Cymru, the party of Wales.  They NEED a party that'll
fight back for Wales, (.) a party whose MPs can speak up for Wales
(.) without having to obey (.) orders from party bosses in London. 
They can see that Plaid Cymru is the ONly party (.) that believes in
a fairer society and better public services - (.) the ONly party (.)
with TOtal loyalty to the people of Wales, (.) and the only party (.) 
that can challenge Labour in Wales.

<M TX>
[ logo ]
Plaid Cymru
The Party of Wales [ all in green ]

18 Park Grove
Cardiff CF10 3BN
029 2064 6000
www.plaidcymru.org
<B 09>
<P SN>
[ Comments:  Quite a bit of text, mainly consisting of newspaper
headlines and quotations, but not much speech!  Mostly sung,
consisting of the single word "shout!". ]

<M TXX>
The Scottish Parliament is like a parish council.  - Tony Blair.

Prescott paves way for Scots cash cut.  - The Scotsman.

Sex and drugs crime on increase.  - The Scotsman.

œ1.5bn sliced from Scots budget
[ line below too small to be legible ]

48 hours from NHS Meltdown.  - Daily Record.

SCANDAL OF SOARING NHS WAITING LISTS

Blair will axe grants for every student

"Sovereignty rests with me
as an English MP and 
that's the way it will stay." - Tony Blair


<M TX>
Don't 

it 

make 

you 

want 

to 

SHOUT

<M SG>
<G N>
Shout!

<M SP>
<G M>
[ MSP speaking in Scottish Parliament:] 
There should be a compensated (??) and (?????)

<G M> [ different MP speaking in British Parliament: ]
We must find a way to act NOW!

<M SG> 
<G M> [ group of fishermen ]
Shout!

<M TXX>
5m pound cost of fishing tie-up goes to Scottish Opera.  - The
Scotsman

<M SG> 
<G F> [ group of nurses ]
Shout!

<M TXX>
Scots hospital waiting lists jump by 5000.  - Daily Record

Higher tax for "fewer services" - The Scotsman

<M SG> 
<G N>  [passengers on bus ]
Shout!

<M TXX>
two year cut for education, local authorities and industry.  - The
Scotsman

<M SG>
<G F>
Stand up and be heard

<M SG>
<G M> [ workers on building site]
Shout!

<M TXX>
Who's going to pay for your granny?  - Sunday Herald

<M SG>
<G F>
Listen to what you say

<G N> [pensioners sitting on park bench]
Shout!

<G F>
Let yourself be proud

<G N> [cooks in a kitchen ]
Shout!

<M TXX> [ front page of the Sun ]
MESSAGE
DELETE
3,100
SCOTS

<M SG>
<G N> [ people coming down escalator ]
Shout!

<G N> [ off camera ]
Shout!

<M TXX>
college fee bombshell. - Scotland on Sunday 

<M SG>
<G F>
Stand up and be heard

<G F> [cyclist]
Shout!

<M TXX>
Barnett Formula may
slash public spending - The Scotsman

<M SG>
<G F>
Listen to what you say

<G N> [ cleaners ]
Shout!

<G N> [ off camera ]
Shout!

<G M> [ man in cap ]
Shout!

<M TXX>
Labour benefit cuts
branded disgrace.  - The Scotsman

<M SG>
<G F>
Let yourself be proud

<G M> [ young man ]
Shout!

<G F> [ old woman]
Shout!

<G M> [child]
Shout!

<M SP>
<G F> [ another SNP MSP ]
In every single way we can.

<M SG>
<G F> [ teenager ]
Shout!

<G M>
Shout!

[ dog barking stands for the 3rd "shout" - impossible to transcribe!]

<M SP> 
<G M> [ another SNP MSP ]
(???)

<M SG>
<G N> [ adults and children climbing on rigging of ship ]
Shout!

<M TXX>
The 1,000 pound question for parents.  How do we find cash for fees? 
- The Scotsman.

<M SG>
<G F>
Listen to what you say

<G N> [ chefs ]
Shout!

<G F>
Let yourself be proud

<G N> [pensioners on bench]
Shout!

<G F>
Let yourself be proud

<G M> [fishermen ]
Shout shout shout,
Shout it out aloud 

<G N> [ people on escalator ]
Shout!

<G N> [ people on bus]
Shout shout shout,

<G N> [ off camera ]
Shout it out aloud 

<G N> [ cleaners ]
Shout!

<G M> [ building workers]
Shout shout shout,
Shout it out aloud 

<G F> [ nurses ]
Shout! 

[ repeat and fade ]

<M TX>
Make Scotland's voice heard at Westminster

Vote SNP on June 7th

SNP.  We stand for Scotland. [ logo ]
www.snp.org   0808 144 2828


<B 10>
<P LP>
[ Comments: most of this is shot in a junior school. ]

<M TX> 
Sedgefield, Co. Durham 2001

<M SP> 
<G M> [ Tony Blair ]
I wouldn't stay in politics a day longer (.) than (.) I thought I had
some useful purpose in it.  Now I happen to believe at the present
time that I HAVE, and [th- that-] that the Labour government's got
(.) work that we've started and we that need to FINish.

I'm still an optimist.  I'm still basically (.) somebody who (.)
believes in the power of politics to change things, that with all the
cynicism and the rubbish you get in politics and all the personality
nonsense, (.) in the end (.) you can come to a school like this and
it's CHANGed, and it's changed because of a political decision, it
didn't happen beFORE [we were-] we were in office and it wouldn't
have happened if we WEREN'T in office so (.) THAT'S why the work's
got to go on, we've made a start but we haven't finished it.

<G M> [Blair looking at a photograph ]
I used to look like that!   [ general laughter ]

<G F> [a teacher? ]
It used to be you!  [ more laughter ]

<G M> [ Blair ]
[ laughs ] Thanks. [ accepting a drink in a mug ]

If I'd promised people before I came to office (.) there would be a
million extra jobs in the economy, (.) people would say "You must be
joking, you can't possibly do that" -  we've DONE it.  

[ snippet of conversation apparently from Blair to workers ]
well we hope there's gonna be - 

<G M> [ Blair ]
A lot of the criticism (.) of us, I suppose me in particular, is, we
don't have any principles. (.)  Because you don't fit into - and I
don't fit into a conventional political category.  But I'm PLEASed
I don't.  You know I don't have any TIME for sort of 1960s
libertarianism that says if someone commits a criminal offence (.)
[then-] (.) then they're allowed (.) to get away with it because they
had [a-] a bad upbringing or they've (.) poor social circumstances. 
I think MY task is to CHANGE those social circumstances (.) but in
the meantime to make sure that the public's protected.

<G M>
Do you GET any sleep?

<G M> [ Blair ]
Er - a little. [ laughs ] But it's all right.  At least the baby's
sleeping through the night.

There's never been a radical reforming government that's done it in
four years.

<G M>  [ from a clip of a public appearance ]
I think you'd better go.

<G M> [Blair]
Because (.) ALL these things take time to achieve but you can SEE the
beginnings of it. I mean nobody can doubt the beginnings of it, not
just in the economy but in the public services too.

At the present time (.) there's still far too many people waiting for
treatment, (.) we still don't have enough nurses and doctors and
consultants in the Health Service, BUT (.) what is DIFferent (.) is
that in EVery part of the Health Service now you can see how it COULD
be, (.) because the alTERnative is [you can MOVE] - as the
Conservatives WANT - you can move to an American system (.) but then
every family in the country is going to be paying what, forty, fifty
quid out a week (.) for their health insurance.  And some people
won't GET private health insurance.

Education remains the number one priority - for me, for the
government, for the country.  And I know for myself I would NEver be
Prime Minister, I would never have had a CHANCE of doing any of the
things I've done (.) except for the decent education that I got, and
I was very LUCKy.  It opened doors for me that would otherwise have
remained comPLETEly shut.  (.) But the reason why I think it's CRAzy
for the COUNtry (.) not to be passionate about education (.) is that
IN today's world it is ONly by skill and ability and talent you can
survive. And that is why education is a PASsion for me, (.) morally,
(.) but it is also the ABsolute common sense necessity (.) for the
country's economy.

<G N>  [school children in chorus]
Good morning Mr. Blair!

<G M> [Blair ]
And where we have that (.) educated base to our economy, (.) [w-]
we're world beaters.

<G N>  [school children chant in chorus, clapping ]
Tony!  Tony!   Tony!  Tony!

<G M>  [Blair]
I believe that people, [what-] whatever part of the country (.)
they're in, (.) basically want the same things: a decent job, can pay
the bills, with low mortgages, an economy that's stable, they want
their KIDS to get a decent chance in life and a better education,
they want their PArents to be looked after, particularly when they're
ill, (.) and they want to be able to walk the STREETS in some sort
of safety and security.  'n [these are not-] (.) you know it's not
rocket science as to what (.) people WANT, or NEED.

I'm the same person as I've ever been, I believe in the same things. 
You know, [I- I-] I DO have [a-] a great sense of humility about what
we've still GOT to do but I'm PROUD of what we've done and I think
there ARE real changes that we can see, that have made a real
difference to people's life.

There is (.) a balance of leadership (.) to be struck (.) between
listening and leading.  You DO listen but you have to LEAD, and in
the end the judgement's for the British people.

<M TX>  
The work goes on. 
 
Vote Labour
on Thursday 7th June

[ logos appear in top and bottom RH corners around existing text ]
08705 900 200

<M SP>
<G M> [Blair]
If you want to find out more about our ambitions for Britain, (.)
call me and my cabinet colleagues right now on 08705 nine hundred two
hundred.

That's 08705 nine hundred two hundred, NOW.


<B 11>
<P LD>
[ Comments: same format as previous broadcast, and some of the same
phrases too. ]

<M TX> 
A real chance for real change.
[logo] Liberal Democrats

<M SP> 
<G M> [ Kennedy ]
You know, you only GET one chance in life to go to school.  

<M TX> 
Charles Kennedy

<M SP> 
<G M> [ Kennedy ]
So when class sizes are too HIGH (.) and there aren't enough
TEAchers, (.) you've lost out for good.

Frankie Fawcett is ten.  She's a bright girl (.) and she enJOYS
school, but there are thirty-three children in her class.  Having to
learn with so many others (.) is holding her back.

<G M> [presumably Frankie's father ]
At the last election I was very pleased when, er, when she was SIX,
and Labour promised [that-] that the class sizes would be smaller. 
I have to say I'm quite angry that four years LAter, now she's TEN,
her class size is actually bigger.

<G M> [ Kennedy ]
Liberal DEmocrats would CUT class sizes to twenty-five, for ALL five
to eleven-year-olds.

<M TX> 
CLASSES [33 crossed out ] 25

<M SP>
<G M> [ Kennedy ]
People who use our TRANSport system deserve better, too.  Tory rail
privatisation was a disaster, (.) but the alternatives to the
railways (.) are just as bad.

Jill Whitehead for instance, endures a daily NIGHTmare (.) on her
regular commute from Carshalton in the suburbs (.) to central London.

<G F> [Whitehead]
The train was late and it was CROWded, and it's just so unclean and
unreliable and unpunctual and er, trains aren't very FREquent these
days.

<G M> [Kennedy ]
To END the misery, Liberal Democrats will introduce much tougher
regulation (.) to make the railway companies improve their service.

<M TX> 
IMPROVED SERVICES

<M SP>
<G M> [Kennedy ]
And what about STUdents.  Tony Blair said he wouldn't bring IN
tuition fees - and then he did.  Well WE want to scrap them.  In
Scotland, THANKS to the Liberal Democrats, they've already been
abolished.

Take James from Scotland and Peter from England, (.) both at
Edinburgh University.  One pays tuition fees, the other DOESn't.

<G M>  [ James Mason ] [ name shown on student ID card ]
I've saved two thousand pounds straight off.  Er, so [it-] it HAS
made a (?bit of a) difference certainly, yes. 

<G M> [Kennedy ]
Peter Taylor studies at Edinburgh too, but HE'S ENGlish so (.) he
still has to pay the fees.

<G M> [Taylor ]
The cost of education (.) with tuition fees (.) is a deterrent to
going to university.

<M TX> 
NO 
TUITION FEES

<M SP>
<G M> [Kennedy ]
Liberal DEmocrats will abOLish tuition fees (.) in EVery PART of the
United Kingdom.

Liberal Democrats are set to win many more seats AND VOTES at this
election.  More and more people recognise (.) we're the ONly party
with HONest plans for better education, health (.) and transport.

<M TX> [simultaneous with speech of female presenter ]
Charles Kennedy
Freepost
London
SW1P 3BR

www.libdems.org.uk

<M SP>
<G F>
To find out more about the Liberal Democrats or to join the party,
write to Charles Kennedy, Freepost, London SW1P 3BR.

<B 12>
<P CP>
[ Comments:  The second part of this is identical with broadcast no.
6. ]

<M TX> 
British petrol is already the most expensive in Europe.

<M TXX> [ sign on petrol pump ]
1.30 unleaded litre

<M TX>
To pay for Labour's spending plans, they'll tax us more.

<M TXX> [ sign on petrol pump ]
1.30 unleaded litre

<M TX>
Petrol tax is Labour's favourite stealth tax.

<M TXX> [ sign on petrol pump ]
1.30 unleaded litre

<M TX>
A rise in tax could increase petrol to œ1.30 a litre.

that's œ6.00 a gallon, under Labour.

<M TXX> [ sign on petrol pump ]
1.30 unleaded litre

<M TX>
NOT ALL PARTIES ARE THE SAME

Conservatives will tax you less.
We will cut fuel tax by 6p a litre, 
that's 27p a gallon.

[ identical bit begins here ]

[ the following are spoof TV or radio news reports ]

<M SP>
<G M> ["newsreader" ]
There was more bad news today for the British economy (.) as it
continued its slide down the European growth table.

<M TXX>  [Headline in Financial Times ]
EU job
losses hit
new high

<M SP>
<G M>
Analysts claim that showing prices and reporting other financial
information (.) in both pounds AND Euros (.) is slowing down the
British economy.

[ Fisherman reading notice: ]
<M TXX>
EU DIRECTIVE
FISHING MONDAY
WEDNESDAY FRIDAY ONLY

PERMISSION DE P CHER
SEULEMENT LUNDI
MERCREDI ET VENDREDI

[ headline displayed behind newsreader: ]
<M TXX>
  INTEREST
RATES UP 1%

<M SP>
<G M>
The European Central Bank has imposed a one percent increase in UK
interest rates (.) in line with the rest of the European Union.  

<M TXX> [ notice on apples in market stall ]
CRISP BRAEBURNS
 2 PER KILO

<M SP>
<G M> [newsreader continues ]
Once again, there are major concerns from businesses throughout the
UK (.) about the financial power shift to Brussels.

The European Parliament today announced it's now in the final stages
of imposing an energy tax on companies of all sizes within the EU.

[ woman in office rips up EU document: ]
<M TXX>
[ EU logo]
E.U. Export Directive
Must be implemented by
March 1st 2003

[ violin music, chimes of Big Ben as a picture of a pound coin in a
museum is shown ]
<M TXX>
The Pound: c. 1500 - 2002

<M TX>
NOT ALL PARTIES ARE THE SAME

Only the Conservatives will 
keep the pound.

We want to be in Europe, 
not run by Europe.

[ new screen: ]
Vote for common sense. 
Vote Conservatives.  [ "X" to indicate vote]

freephone 0 8000 83 82 83
www.conservatives.com

<B 13>
<P GP>
[ Comments: Same female presenter throughout, interspersed with
statements by children. ]

<M SG> 
<G M> [ child singing ]
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily -
Life is but a dream.

<M SP>
<G F> [adult ]
Our children's future ISn't much of a dream.  Despite the promises
of different governments, (.) nothing much seems to CHANGE.

Our towns and cities are unfit for children, who are confined, unable
to run free, and PArents live with the constant fear of tragedy.

<G F> [ Asian child ]
You might get knocked OVer [by erm,] by a CAR or (.) a MOtorbike.

<G M> [white child ]
They CRASH (.) loads of TIMES because the rails are erm, sometimes
BENT.

<M TX> [on bottom of screen, stays on screen during some of the next
speaker's speech ]
0870 900 9 800      www.greenparty.org.uk

<M SP>
<G F> [adult ]
Integrated public TRANSport: there's been plenty of TALK but no
ACtion.  We would end the shambles of privatisation and renationalise
the railways.  (.) The Green Party would promote public transport,
cycleways, (.) traffic calming (.) and massively reduce pollution. 
(.) We would make the streets safe for children again.

<G F> [ black child ]
That would be nice, because you can just walk around everywhere and
go on BIKES.  

<G F> [ white child ]
So it's just like saying "Hey, slow down". [laughs ]

<G F> [ adult ]
Billions of pounds have been spent on looking for cures to diseases
(.) in the hope of HUGE profits.

<G F> [child ]
Well my Mum had a mole and she got sunburnt and it grew bigger and
bigger and she had to (?rePLACE) it.

<M TX> [on bottom of screen, stays on screen during some of the next
speaker's speech ]
0870 900 9 800      www.greenparty.org.uk

<M SP>
<G F> [adult ]
The crazy thing is, (.) many illnesses can be preVENted, yet very
little of the HEALTH budget goes on preVENtion.

We OWE it to our children to turn our SICKness service back into a
HEALTH service.  Eye tests, dental treatment AND prescriptions would
again be free.

<G M> [child ]
My mummy brought me some SWEEties the other day and I ate some  -
they were WORM sweeties and they've got loads of - and they've got
PESTicide in them and Mummy's got to WASH them because [that's-]
that's the way to [lo-] the PESTicide get off, the pesticide comes
off (.) the WORMS.

<G F> [adult ]
The constant use of chemicals is destroying our countryside and
wildlife (.) and risking our HEALTH.

<G F> [ child ]
I think it's bad that (?if) they have Mad Cow Disease, that they have
to kill 'em, (.) 'cos other things might get it.

<M TX> [on bottom of screen, stays on screen during some of the next
speaker's speech ]
0870 900 9 800      www.greenparty.org.uk

<M SP>
<G F> [ adult ]
Intensive agriculture is legalised abuse, (.) and both humans AND
animals are paying a terrible price.  E coli, (.) salmonella, (.) BSE
AND foot and mouth, (.) all encouraged with subsidies worth three
billion pounds a year. The Green Party is working to protect animals,
the environment AND food quality.

It can ONly be done by SCRAPping the EU Common Agricultural Policy.

<G M> [ child ]
The (?? ??es) have wised up and gone into space (.) and they'll have
like made a force field, (.) sort of thing, (.) around the earth.

<G F> [ adult ]
We are an interNATional party working to create a safer world.
We would abandon the arms trade, cancel international debt and
DRAstically cut greenhouse gas emissions.  There would be NO single
currency.

We have some of the most exPENsive housing in Europe, AND some of the
poorest.  Many have nowhere to live at all.

<G F> [ child ]
This boy was (.) looking for food in the rubbish bin.

<G M> [ child ]
Please help the homeless people (.) and give them a (.) nice cosy
home.

<G F> [ adult ]
The Green Party would end the scandal of empty homes, build cheaper
homes and give tenants a voice.  That's justice, and justice is at
the HEART of all our policies.

<M TX> [text stays on screen throughout closing blurb]
www.greenparty.org.uk [ top of screen ]

0870 900 9 800 [bottom of screen]

<M SP>
<G F>
To find out more, make a note of this number, (.) and call us now (.)
or over the next few days (.) OR ask Directory Enquiries for the
Green Party.

Reach for the future - vote Green.

<G M> [ child ]
THAT's magic.

<M TX> 
Reach for the future
Vote Green


<B 14>
<P PC>
[ Comments: Different music (reggae instrumental) from the previous
PC broadcasts!  A greater variety of presenters too. ]

<M SP> 
<G F> [#1]
A vote for Plaid Cymru, the party of Wales, is the ONly way to demand
a fairer society (.) and for the necessary powers of Wales to bring
this about.  This election (.) will give us, the people of Wales, the
chance to stand up and be counted.  We DON'T count to new Labour or
the Tories.  In their eyes, we're just people (.) who stand in the
way of winning the middle-class vote (.) in prosperous parts of
England.

<G F> [ #2]
But on election day, (.) a vote for Plaid Cymru will be a vote for
Wales.

<G F> [#3] 
A vote for ALL the people of Wales, (.) whatEVER language we speak,
whatEVER our ethnic background, (.) wherever we live.

<G F> [#4]
We will not let ANYone (.) divide Wales, (.) be it rural or urban,
north or south, (.) or Welsh speaker against non-Welsh speaker.  The
Welsh language (.) belongs to ALL of us in Wales, (.) and not just
those who speak it.

<G F> [ original presenter #1]
New Labour and the Tories - what's the difference?  Good question,
because in SO many of the big political decisions taken in the last
twenty years, (.) what was STARTed by Margaret Thatcher (.) has been
conTINued by Tony Blair.  A combination of low taxation and public
spending (.) has turned Britain into the most UNequal society (.) in
Europe.  Started by Thatcher, continued by Tony Blair.  Over TWENty
THOUSand jobs have been lost in manufacturing (.) since New Labour
took office.  THATcher closed our MINES, and now Tony Blair is
destroying our steelworks.

The competitive market in education that PITS pupil against pupil and
school against school: set up by Thatcher, left in place by Tony
Blair.

A poor and socially excluded underclass: (.) created by Thatcher,
abandoned by Blair.

<G F> [#5]
Mew Labour, the party of London, (.) doesn't understand the
countryside, and doesn't care, either.  Even before the current foot
and mouth crisis, (.) our rural areas had suffered years of decline.

<G M> [#1]
Plaid Cymru (.) is the only party committed (.) to fighting for our
rural areas, AND also (.) our urban areas.

<G M> [#2]
Student fees are an unfair tax on education AND on our future.  Plaid
Cymru will press for their abolition, (.) as has already happened in
Scotland.

<G M> [#3]
Up to three in five pensioners in Wales live on or below the poverty
line.  This is partly because they are reluctant to claim benefits
to which they are entitled.  The only solution is a fair and decent
pension for all.

<G F> [ original presenter ]
Plaid Cymru the party of Wales believes in a fairer society, (.) and
that investment in jobs and public services SHOULD come before tax
cuts for the rich.  We believe our former MINers and PENsioners
should have a better deal, (.) and we think that the people of Wales
(.) should have the same rights as the people of Scotland.

Plaid Cymru (.) the party of Wales (.) NEEDS your support in this
election, (.) to help secure (.) a better deal (.) for Wales.

<M TX>
[ logo ]
Plaid Cymru
The Party of Wales [ all in green ]

18 Park Grove
Cardiff CF10 3BN
029 2064 6000
www.plaidcymru.org


<B 15>
<P LP>
[ Comments: The voice is that of Tony Blair throughout, though we are
never shown his face!  The pauses between sections seem unnaturally
short, and his intonation is strange at times - perhaps due to
careless editing? ]

<M SP> 
<G M> [Blair]
Their names don't get in the headlines (.) and they don't give
political speeches (.) but they're the REAL heroes, (.) the QUIET
heroes who are building the future of Britain.  Families like the
HANsons in Halesowen.  Andy is a Health and Safety Officer, (.) and
Maria is a student nurse.  They face financial pressures every day,
paying the bills and meeting the mortgage.  

<M TX> 
Mortgages as low as possible

<M SP>
<G M> [Blair]
Our pledge to them (.) in a second term (.) is to keep mortgages as
low as possible, HELPing families like the Hansons who work hard to
make ends meet.

Sandra Samuels (.) is a theatre nurse in Wolverhampton.  People's
lives depend on her every day.  We've recruited seventeen THOUsand
additional nurses since 1997, 

<M TX> 
20,000 extra nurses and
10,000 extra doctors

<M SP>
<G M> [Blair]
but OUR pledge (.) is now another TWENty thousand extra nurses, TEN
thousand more doctors (.) so that more (.) and more patients get the
kind of quality care that Sandra is proud to provide.

John Hewing (.) is a police officer.  He's just retired after thirty-
eight years of service.  He won the Queen's Police Medal, (.) but his
REAL pride (.) is that in recent years(.) he made the streets in
Derbyshire safer.  Because of dedicated officers like John, (.) crime
in Britain (.) has fallen ten percent since 1997. But there is FAR
more to do,

<M TX> 
6,000 extra police recruits

<M SP>
<G M> [Blair]
- and our pledge now (.) is six THOUsand extra police recruits - MORE
police (.) than ever before.

Patty Lane is a hero (.) to all the six and seven year olds she
teaches in Wednesbury.  Patty and teachers like her (.) are the
reason Britain now has the BEST EVer TEST scores in primary schools.

<M TX>
10,000 extra teachers

<M SP>
<G M> [Blair]
So our pledge (.) is TEN THOUSand more teachers, with HIGHer
standards in our SEcondary schools.

Tom Martin was a soldier in World War Two, decorated for clearing a
road in Sicily while under enemy fire.  He was driving a bulldozer
(.) named after his wife Vera.  He came home, (.) worked on the
railways, (.) and on the IRONworks, (.) rebuilding the country.  And
at eighty-three, Tom is STILL working for Britain, (.) as a community
volunteer (.) in Stapleford.

<M TX> 
Pensioners' winter fuel 
payment retained

<M SP>
<G M> [Blair]
Our pledge (.) is to KEEP the winter allowance, KEEP the free TV
licences for the over-75s, the better than normal basic state pension
rise this year and next, (.) and guarantee SINgle pensioners a
minimum income of a hundred pounds a week.

They treat the sick, (.) teach our children, (.) protect our streets,
defend our country, (.)  and work hard for their families.  They ARE
the strength and soul of Britain, (.) the REAL heroes (.) who are
changing (.) this country.  

Now together, (.) let's finish (.) what we've all started.

<M TX> 
Let's finish what we've all started. [ stays on screen ]

[ logos appear at top and bottom of screen around text ]
Vote Labour on Thursday June 7th

Call us on 08705 900 200

<M SP> 
<G M> [different voice ]
Vote Labour on Thursday June the 7th.  Call us on 08705 (.) nine
hundred (.) two hundred.  That's 08 (.) 705 (.) nine hundred (.) two
hundred.  NOW.

<B 16>
<P LD>
[ Comments:  Quite a lot of newspaper cuttings are shown. ]

<M TX>
A real chance for real change.
[logo] LIBERAL DEMOCRATS

<M SP> 
<G M> [ Charles Kennedy ]
Travelling up and down the country, (.) I've talked to a HUGE range
of people (.) -

[on the campaign trail, greeting someone ]
Hello  

- and the one message that comes through again and again (.) is that
you all want better public services.  That's why more and more of you
(.) are turning (.) to the Liberal Democrats.

<M TX>  
THE NURSE

<M SP>
<G F>
There's only one party that's ABsolutely committed to putting the
money and the resources BACK into the National Health Service.

<G M>  [Kennedy, making a speech ]
The Liberal Democrats VALue people who look AFter people.

<G F> [ the nurse again ]
And that's why THIS year more and more staff who work for the NHS
will be voting Liberal Democrat.

<G M> [Kennedy, making a speech ]
And what about education?

<M TX>  
THE STUDENT

<M SP>
<G F>
Only the Liberal Democrats are committed to abolishing student
tuition fees.  That's why more and more students say they're going
to vote Lib Dem.

<M TXX> [ newspaper cutting ]
"... The Liberal Democrats are promoting a mature, honest, frank
vision of how Britain ought to look tomorrow." 
THE OBSERVER

<M SP>
<G F>
"The Liberal Democrats are promoting a mature, honest, frank vision
of how Britain ought to look tomorrow" - The Observer.

<G M> [ Kennedy making a speech ]
We will FIGHT CRIME as WELL, EQUally HARD.

<M TX>  
THE EX-POLICEMAN

<M SP>
<G M>
More officers on the beat (.) will provide a sense of public
security, (.) and in my view the ONly PARty (.) that I trust to
deliver that is the Liberal Democrat Party.

<G M> [ Kennedy making a speech ]
With US, you get a pension (.) RISE.  With the Others, you TAKE a
pension (.) RISK.

<M TX> 
THE PENSIONER

<M SP>
<G F>
Pensioners need HIGHer pensions. They feel they don't WANT to have
to sell their homes to provide the care they need.  And I feel that
is why people of MY age are turning to the Liberal Democrats, in
their thousands.

<M TXX>
" ... very welcome promises on pensions AND long-term care." 
HELP THE AGED.

<M SP>
<G F>
"The Liberal Democrats have made very welcome promises on pensions
AND long-term care"  - Help the Aged.

<G M> [ Kennedy]
If Labour win aGAIN, then they need to be oppOSed by a party that
will keep challenging them to do MORE.  William Hague's Conservatives
would do LESS: they PLAN (.) for tax cuts.  That means LESS for
health, for education (.) and for pensions.  

<M TXX> [ supposed newspaper headlines, unattributed, simultaneous
with K's speech: ]

Party Time
for Lib Dems

LIB DEMS WIN!

TORIES CRUSHED

Sensational by-election victory

<M SP>
<G M> [ Kennedy]
Already, millions have chosen (.) to support us -

<M TXX> [ supposed newspaper headlines, unattributed, simultaneous
with K's speech:  ]

HUGE WIN FOR LIB DEMS

Massive swing to
Liberal Democrats

LIB DEMS WINNING HERE

LIB DEMS SET
FOR
SUCCESS

More switch to Lib Dems
Lib Dems up in polls

<M SP>
<G M> [ Kennedy making a speech ]
- but millions MORE (.) are now ready to join WITH us.  THROUGH the
Liberal Democrats (.) we can all WIN, and we can WIN as a country (.)
and as a people, (.) together. [applause]

<M TXX> [ banner behind stage at Lib Dem conference ]
A real chance for real change.

<M SP>
<G M> [ Kennedy in "ordinary" mode ]
More and more people are backing the Liberal Democrats.  We're
winning more votes and we're set to win more seats.  

<M TX>
WE CAN WIN WHERE YOU LIVE
[logo] Liberal Democrats

<M SP>
<G M> [ Kennedy ]
With your support we CAN win (.) where you live, and Britain (.)
would benefit.

<B 17>
<P CP>
[ Comments: the second part is entirely conveyed through written text
- no speech, just background music. ]

<M TX> 
1997

<M SP>
<G M>
In 1997 (.) you voted for change.  After all, (.) Tony Blair had said
SO much and made SO many promises.

<M TXX>  
"24 hours to save the NHS."
Tony Blair 1997

[ newspaper headline: ]
Surgeon confronts Blair over
"rock bottom" morale in NHS

<M TX>  
4 years on and an NHS in crisis.

<M SP>
<G M> [ same speaker ]
More bureaucracy means that family doctors can't look after their
patient as they wish.

<M TXX>
"Tough on crime, tough
on the causes of crime."
Tony Blair 1997

[ newspaper headline: ]
Straw mauled by police delegates

<M TX>  
Soft on crime, tough on you.

<M SP>
<G M> [ same speaker ]
Violent crime has risen.  There are fewer police on the streets and
thousands more criminals are being let out early.

<M TXX>
"No plans to increase
taxes at all."
Tony Blair 1997

[ hand-written sign on petrol pump: ]
SORRY NO FUEL

[banner held by protesters: ]
STEALTH TAXES FUEL PROTESTS
CUT FUEL TAXES NOW
MR. BLAIR, AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION
HISTORY WILL REMEMBER YOU AS 
"ONE TERM TONY"

<M TX>  
No plans to keep promises.

<M SP>
<G M>
Forty-five stealth taxes since 1997.  To pay for labour's waste, (.)
Labour's stealth tax will push up petrol to six pounds a gallon.

<M TX>  
NOT ALL PARTIES ARE THE SAME.

<M SP>
<G M>  [ William Hague making a speech ]
... (???) anyone else. If you believe in an independent Britain, (.)
then come with me (.) and I will give you back your country.

<M TX>
The Conservatives will cut taxes.
We will cut fuel tax by 27p a gallon.

We will stop criminals getting 
out of jail early.
We will abolish Labour's 
Special Early Release Scheme.

We will make Britain a safe haven, 
not a soft touch for asylum seekers.

We will give head teachers and governors 
freedom to run their own schools.

We will trust doctors and nurses 
to make medical decisions.
Not politicians.

We will abolish tax on savings 
except at the upper rate.

We want to be in Europe, 
not run by Europe.

We will keep the pound.

We will give you back your country.

Vote for common sense.
Vote Conservatives. [ X to indicate vote ]

freephone 0 8000 83 82 83
www.conservatives.com


<B 18>
<P LP>
[ Comments: This is mostly an acted fictitious episode! ]

<M SP>
<G F>  [ young woman to male partner, seated on sofa ]
Come on.  I suppose we'd better.

<G M>  [ partner ]
Yeah.

<G F> [ calling upstairs ]
We're just popping out.

<G M>  [ narrator ]
It's not always the most fun thing to do.  We can't fix the weather. 
And it's quite easy to feel that your one SINgle VOTE might not
matter.  But there's nothing you can do on Thursday that will make
more of a difference to the lives of everyone in your community (.)
than VOting.

<M SGX>
<G M> [lyrics of song]
'Cos you could be living ... living ... living.

<M SP>
<G M>  [ young man at exit from polling station ]
You voted for me.  Thanks.

<M TX> 
Labour will increase the minimum wage 
they introduced to œ4.20 an hour.

<M SP>
<G M>
Labour are going to increase the minimum wage they introduced to four
pounds twenty an hour.

<G F>  [ elderly woman kissing young voter ]
Thank you, darling.  Oh!

<M TX>  
Labour will keep 
the Winter fuel allowance.

<M SP>
<G M>
Labour will keep the winter FUEL allowance.

[ children cheering as voters leave polling station ]

<M TXX> [banner across school wall ]
THERE WILL BE 10,000 MORE TEACHERS

<M SP>
<G M>
There will be ten thousand more teachers (.) 

<M TXX> [banner across school wall ]
and 20,000 more teaching assistants.

<M SP>
<G M>
and TWENty thousand more teaching assistants.

<M TX>
Labour will recruit an extra 6,000 Police.

<M SP>
<G M>
Labour will recruit an extra six thousand police.

<G M> [police officer]
Good.  We need it.

<G F>  [ nurse getting into ambulance ]
You've made a difference.

<M TXX> [ Written across the back of the ambulance. ]
THERE WILL BE 20,000 
MORE NURSES AND 10,000 
MORE DOCTORS.

<M SP>
<G M>
There will be twenty thousand more nurses (.) and TEN thousand more
doctors.

<M TX> [ in childish handwriting ]
The Children's Tax Credit
up to œ520 a year.

<M SP>
<G M>
The Children's Tax Credit - up to five hundred and twenty pounds a
year.

<G F> [ baby in pushchair]
(?Ga Ga Ga)
<M TX>  [ purporting to be subtitling the baby's babble: ]
Thank you very much indeed, sir.

<M SP>
<G M>  [ young man moving into house ]
We couldn't have DONE it without you.
<G F>  [ young woman moving into house ]
It's because of YOU we're HERE.  
[to child:]
Bernard, get DOWN off that couch, (???)

<M TX>
Labour will keep mortgages as low as possible.

<M SP>
<G M>
Labour will keep mortgages as low as possible, and we'll put schools
and hospitals first.

<M TX>
Labour will put schools and hospitals first

<M SP>
<G F> [ woman in street ]
It's (been) a start -
<G F> [ another woman in street ]
- But there's still a lot to do.

<M SP>
<G M> 
You might not get a reception like this on Thursday, (.) but you CAN
really make a big difference to people in your community.

<G M> [ male voter ]
Cup of tea?
<G F> [ female voter ]
Yeah.  I'm glad we did that.
<G M>
Yeah. So am I.

<G F> [ to other woman in house who is watching TV ]
What's on?
<G F> [ other woman ]
It's a Party Political Broadcast - but (.) I think it's over now.
<G F>  [ voter ]
Yeah. It is.

<M TX>  
Be part of it

<M SP>
<G M>
Be PART of it.  It's NOT over until you've VOted.

<M TX>
Vote Labour 
on Thursday June 7th

<M SP>
<G M>
Vote LAbour the day after tomorrow.  You can vote any time between
seven AM in the morning (.) and ten PM at night. 

<M TX>
[logos appear at top and bottom RH corners around other text]
call us now 08705 900 200
Labour

<M SP>
<G M>
If you need help getting to a polling station, (.) or need more
information, (.) call us on 08705 nine hundred two hundred.

That's 08705 nine hundred two hundred, NOW.

[ end ]