David Cameron speech

David Cameron speech; ENGLAND: Birmingham: INT David Cameron MP (Conservative Party Leader) speech SOT "For the past two and a half years, the changes I have led in this Party have been aimed in one direction: giving people a positive alternative to a failing government. I don't want us to be elected on the back of a disintegrating Labour Party. I want us to be elected with a clear mandate to make the changes Britain needs. "So we've changed the way we select candidates. After the next election our Party will be more like the country we hope to lead. We've changed our policies and our politics: becoming once again the true champions for progressive ideals like tackling poverty, protecting the environment and kick-starting social mobility. We have taken clear positions and stuck to them: "Putting economic stability before tax cuts. Improving public services for everyone, not helping a few to opt out. Recognising that the progress people want to see is a better quality of life, not just higher GDP. "All this supports the overriding mission we have set for ourselves: to revive our society just as Margaret Thatcher revived our economy; to reverse Britain's social breakdown, just as she reversed our economic breakdown. And we have set out how we will achieve that mission - by ending the era of top-down state control and big government. We want to respond to what should be a new post-bureaucratic age, by decentralising power, by giving people more opportunity and control over their lives, by making families stronger and society more responsible. ANGER WITH LABOUR "That is our positive alternative, the alternative to a Labour government that people are increasingly regarding with contempt. Whether it's on the streets of Crewe and Nantwich, around the country in the run-up to the local elections, or in the emails and letters I get, I've noticed a new feeling of anger. "It's not just because the Prime Minister can't seem to stop treating peopl...