布莱尔演讲稿

篇一：布莱尔演讲稿1

TRANSCRIPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST OF FRIDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2000

Being Prime Minister is a difficult job but nothing's more difficult than being a parent. And there are fewer bigger worries when you are a parent than drugs. No matter how hard you try to bring your children up well, no matter how sensible and decent they are, we all of us worry.

What if they fall in with wrong crowd? What if my kids get offered ecstasy at a party or a club? What if someone even offers them drugs at school?

Heroin.

Ecstasy.

Crack. Cocaine.

Lethal drugs with lethal consequences. Hard drugs that lead to addiction. Often after starting from so called softer drugs. These drugs ruin lives. They replace hope with despair, they tear families apart. They shatter communities.

And they fuel, of course, we all know that, so much of our crime. It is estimated that at least half of all the property crime in this country is linked in some way to drugs. And it isn't just inner-city housing estates which are prey to drugs.

There's not a community, from here in the centre of London to the most remote parts of our countryside, which is free from it. Not a parent - rich or poor - that doesn't worry. Not a family that is immune to the threat.

So not just as a Prime Minister, as a parent too, we want to support hard working families and make sure that we engage in a real battle to combat the scourge of drugs in our society.

We all know there's no single, simple solution. What's needed is a raft of co-ordinated measures to tackle this modern menace.

Choking off the supply of drugs. Catching and punishing drug dealers. Breaking the link between drugs and crime. Treating properly those hooked on drugs. Educating our children about the dangers.

Giving families every possible support.

New laws are the crucial first step.

We're taking new powers to test criminals for drugs.

Mandatory testing of all prisoners.

New powers to ensure convicted drug offenders are referred for treatment. New seven year minimum sentences for drug dealers.

But we have to do more. Because no matter how effectively the police, or courts or customs operate, they can't win this war on their own. We've all got to play our part. That's what's behind the successful Metropolitan Police Rat on a Rat phone-line here in London and the other Crime Stoppers campaigns that are engaging members of the public in this battle too.

Just to give you a couple of examples, in one case a grandmother got suspicious about the people next door. From her call to the confidential number, the police were able to bust a ￡1 million drugs factory.

Or in another, vital information provided the missing details the police needed for a ￡3 million heroin seizure. Just two telephone calls resulting in that.

In just two weeks calls to the London Rat on a Rat scheme increased from 70 to 2,000. Seven hundred drug dealers and users have been arrested since the scheme began. Initiatives like this are working successfully right across the country. So we have to do more. Not just in relations to courts involving the members of the public but earlier this week I chaired a meeting here in the Cabinet room with key Ministers - Jack Straw, Mo Mowlam and the person in charge of our drugs strategy - the former chief constable Keith Hellawell, police and customs, where a number of specific concrete ideas were presented which we can take forward.

There's one immediate step that I can announce - a joint Health and Home Office plan to recruit more than 300 extra specialist drug counsellors who can deal properly and effectively with those referred by the Police for treatment. Some of these people want to get off drugs but unless they get the treatment, they don't get the chance. If we get young offenders off drugs, there'll be far more chance stopping them reoffending. Since they're often offending to feed the habit. The adverts for these new posts will go out in the next few days.

And I am also going to be talking with the Police and the education department this week about whether we can extend the Rat on a Rat scheme to schools. Giving a dedicated number so that pupils can call in confidence if they see someone peddling drugs near their school. Young children are targeted. We have to engage them too in the fight against this evil world-wide trade.

I also want to hit the drug dealers harder. Making sure they don't keep the profits they've made off the misery of others. Often what will happen is that we have someone with a massive amount of money and assets with no visible means of support and yet proving how they came by this money is difficult.

One known drug dealer has assets worth ￡450 million, with no obvious explanation as to where this sum of money came from. So we want to be more rigorous too in

forcing people in circumstances where they have huge sums of money and no visible signs of support to prove where it came from. And to take it off them if they can't. Raising a family is a daunting business. We all know that who are parents. Our task as a government is to try and make that the job that bit easier, to remove the obstacles, to tackle the concerns.

It is uealistic to imagine we can create a world without drugs. But we can, and we must, do more to protect our young people.

There were signs this week that the strategy we're just beginning is having an effect - seizures of drugs up some 8% in year 1998, for which we have figures. We are also catching and punishing more drug dealers now. But there's a long way to go. If we hold our nerve, we carry on with the strategy, tougher punishment, better education, better treatment, better co-ordination across government then I am convinced we can get there. Thank you.

篇二：布莱尔演讲稿2

TRANSCRIPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST ON 10 MARCH 2000

I make no apologies for returning to the subject of drugs so soon. As I said three weeks ago, the threat drugs pose to our children is something which terrifies all parents.

Some of you may have seen the TV programme on Wednesday night about the death of Leah Betts after taking ecstasy. Not long ago, I sat down - with Mo Mowlam and Keith Hellawell, whos the UKs anti-drugs co-ordinator and I listened to Leahs parents talk about their grief and their anger and most of all their crusade for the future against drugs.

Their tragedy was every parents nightmare. And what was chilling as you listened to them was that you realised it could happen to anyones daughter, to anyones son.

Its why Im determined that, as a country, we will do everything we can to tackle the menace of drugs. But theres no point pretending we can do it alone.

Those behind this evil trade dont recognise national borders. The drugs that cause the most damage to our young people and to our society are not grown here. Theyre often not refined here. And the main supply routes, as you know, are usually controlled by criminal gangs based a long way from our shores.

Hard drugs sold on the streets of London or Glasgow can be grown in Afghanistan or Columbia and make a fortune for criminals based anywhere in the world.

So if we are serious about stopping the drugs trade we have to think and act internationally. Because unless we do, we will simply fail. Of course, its up to us as countries to draw up our own policies and plans to tackle drugs. And the weapons we use wont always be the same in the fight against drugs.

Keith Hellawell is driving forward new policies and new approaches to tackling drugs here. Policies which are already making a difference.

And I was in Scotland yesterday to look at the Drug Enforcement Agency - set up as one of the first priorities of the new Scottish Parliament.

Its an exciting initiative intended to co-ordinate action against drugs north of the border and one we will be watching closely. But whether we do things slightly differently in Scotland to

England, or in the UK to the rest of the Europe, or indeed in Europe to the rest of the world, the real lesson for all of us is that we can only win this war against drugs together.

There is a great deal of good work already going on internationally particularly in Europe - between Governments, police forces and

other anti-drug agencies such as customs.

But if we needed any reminder that more must be done, we only have to look at the amount of drugs still being peddled on our streets, the number of addicts and the amount of crime fuelled by drugs.

So we want to press European Union leaders to give an even higher priority to this battle.

There must be rapid progress, for instance, on agreeing minimum penalties throughout the European Union for those caught

trafficking in drugs like cocaine and heroin. Dealers must know they will face severe penalties wherever they are caught.

I also want us to work harder in Europe to learn from each other. We all share drug problems. We must also share the successful methods we have found to counter them.

And I want to see common targets so we can measure the success of our anti-drug action plans. By enabling us to compare our

performance nationally, it will highlight the weaknesses so that we can put them right.

But we have also got to reach out beyond the existing European Union members to countries like Poland and Hungary - h

We are already helping them economically to prepare for European Union membership. But we must also help them in the fight against international crime and drugs. Not just for their own sakes now but for the future of an enlarged European Union.

Britain will be setting a lead by expanding our own anti-drugs programmes with these countries.

Increasing the assistance, for instance, we already give in training police and customs officers. Providing the extra resources they need from sniffer dogs to computer software to spot money laundering. So we are going to set a lead internationally. Keith Hellawell is doing this with INTERPOL and the United Nations. But we are also going to do more at home.

In the next few days, we will be unveiling the new Criminal Justice Bill. This will give police new powers to help break the link

between drugs and crime. For the first time, they will be able to test for drugs suspects they have arrested for a whole range of offences. Its a controversial move but one that I am convinced is right.

Because I know you expect us to do all we can to combat the threat drugs pose to our families, our communities and our country. And thats what we will continue to do, whether at home or abroad.

篇三：布莱尔演讲稿5

Transcript of Prime Minister's broadcast on education - 17 November 2000

How well our children do at school is vital, of course, to the youngsters themselves and their families.

A good start at school, a good education, makes a huge difference to children's chances in later life. But the quality of education our children receive also matters to the country as a whole - because our future economic success and prosperity depends on it. In this new century, more than ever before, the raw material that counts is the talent and skills of our people.

So to succeed, we need to make sure that everyone gets the chance to make the most of that potential. It's for these reasons that we made education our

number one priority. And we have backed that pledge with record and sustained investment.

It is investment which can only be afforded now and in future years because of the tough decisions taken to bring long-term stability to our economy.

The importance of education to our children and our country is why I was so pleased this week to hear of the steady progress taking place in our secondary schools.

The latest performance tables highlight the continued and welcome improvements in overall standards. It's particularly good news that we have seen better than average improvements in secondary schools in some of our inner-city areas.

Many inner city schools now have programmes for bright children, extra staff to cope with those with problems and more backing to improve discipline. And they show how the policies that David Blunkett has targeted at those communities with some of the greatest problems, are paying off.

But while I'm pleased that Government policies are playing their part in these improvements, the real hard work has been done by the pupils, parents and, of course, teachers.

It's the thousands of dedicated teachers, day in day out in classrooms up and down the country, who are making the difference.

And these results show just what can be achieved by committed teachers and their pupils, supported by

effective national strategies and investment.

The results also build on the dramatic improvements we have already seen in our primary schools. Here the introduction of the numeracy and literacy hours have helped teachers ensure their pupils have a better grip on the basics.

So successful have these dedicated lessons proved - and so popular have they proved with teachers - that we are now extending them to the early years in secondary schools.

They will particularly help those children who leave primary school without reaching the standards in reading, writing and maths expected for their age. ￡82 million more has been allocated by David Blunkett, whose leadership has played such a vital role in improving standards, to give secondary

teachers the support and the tools they need to adapt the literacy and numeracy strategies for their pupils. Our secondary schools then can improve just like our primary schools. So, pupils, parents and teachers have real reason for pride.

But there's no room for complacency. We need to keep improving standards.

We need to keep working so that the standards in our best comprehensive schools - like Thomas Telford School in Shropshire where every pupil achieved five or more A* to C grades in their GCSE exams last year - become the norm.

We've already greatly expanded specialist schools like this. Within four years, nearly 30 per cent of all secondaries will have a specialism in technology, languages, arts and sports.

We need to keep working so that the progress witnessed in these schools - whose results are

improving at 50 per cent more than the average level - then help drive up standards across all secondaries. Pupils can't bring about these improvements on their own. Nor can teachers, parents or the Government. It needs us all to continue working together to deliver the results we want. It's important we succeed - for the future of our children and for our country.