篇一：布莱尔首相演讲Mozambique
TRANSCRIPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST ON 3 MARCH 2000
The scenes this week from Mozambique have been incredibly moving. I don't suppose any of us will forget the extraordinary courage of the pregnant woman clambering for safety up a tree having to give birth there and then, fortunately mother and baby being winched by helicopter to safety minutes later.
That mother's courage has been matched by similar acts of bravery, not just from the victims of the flood but from those trying to rescue them.
Many have been saved. Many others are still in danger. These are the worst floods to have hit the area for half a century. It's believed that there are as many as 100,000 people there still stranded and in danger from the floodwaters -in trees, on roofs or crowded together without food or drinking water on the only high ground they can find. Around half a million people are believed to have lost everything they possessed.
And it's such a tragedy for Mozambique: a country that after many years of difficulty was finally struggling to get back on its feet again.
In the light of this tragedy, the world has had to act quickly. And I believe we can be proud of the way that Britain and British people have reacted. And of the way that our Department for International Development has used its enormous expertise in order to do the very best it can to help. And we're lucky that we have that expertise in dealing with disaster relief.
And we've seen it this week in action.
We chartered seven helicopters - five locally, two from the Ukraine. We are sending another four RAF helicopters of our own. 108 inflatable boats have been loaded onto a plane in Kent to fly immediately to the region.
We have sent Land Rovers, satellite equipment, Royal National Lifeboat personnel and a fire brigade team.
The total assistance -not just pledged but donated- from the UK government stands at ￡7.3m. And today we can do more. When the flood waters subside, the rebuilding process will have to begin quickly. Otherwise the population will be at the mercy of cholera and malaria
epidemics. That is why we are sending Fort George, a special supply ship currently in the gulf, to the region. It is equipped with fresh water, food, medicine, much needed aviation fuel, as well as five Royal Navy Sea King helicopters. It's going to be able to accommodate 500 evacuated people. In just over a week it will be in Mozambique, delivering more in the humanitarian effort.
You can never say that you've done enough or that you couldn't have done more. But I do know that our country has acted quickly -putting its expertise across the board at the disposal of Mozambique; and showing once again how Britain can be a force for good in the world.
I know, too, that you want the government to act. Clare Short, Geoff Hoon the Defence Secretary, and their Ministers have been working flat out on this. They know how much the British people care about suffering like this. And I know too that you will all want to play your part as well. Yesterday an emergency appeal was launched by the charities working in Mozambique. It deserves all our support.
Donations can be made at any Bank or Post Office, or via www.dec.org.uk or on this telephone number: 0870 606 0900.
篇二：布莱尔首相演讲
布莱尔首相演讲
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.
篇三：布莱尔首相演讲NHS Plan
Transcript of the Prime Minister's Broadcast on the NHS Plan Friday 28 July 2000
The creation of the National Health Service back in 1948 lifted a massive worry from people's lives.
For the first time, health care did not depend on wealth. Need, not ability to pay, was what mattered.
Every family in Britain - and certainly mine - has its own reasons to thank the creators of the NHS and the expertise and dedication of its nurses and doctors.
But while support for the NHS remains strong - and in particular for its founding principles - in recent years there's been increasing concern.
Concern, for instance, about growing delays and patchy standards of care. About why health funding has not kept pace with other comparable countries.
And these concerns, in turn, have fed fears about the very survival of the Health Service in the new century.
I understand these fears but I don't share them. I believe the values and principles behind the Health Service are as relevant today as they were 50 years ago.
But I also accept that only by renewing and modernising our health service fundamentally can we re-assure the country that the Health Service will continue to meet its health needs
This has meant confronting two problems which have hamstrung the effectiveness of the Health Service over decades - chronic under-funding number one, and two, the shortcomings of a system designed really to meet the health needs and ambitions of 1948.
We tackled the under funding first.
Because we've taken steps as a government to restore stability to the economy, public finances being put back in shape and because we've created the conditions where there are now a million fewer people in
benefit and a million more people in work the country can now afford the record - and sustained - investment that the NHS needs over the next few years.
This year's Budget delivered an annual funding increase of more than 6% above inflation for those four years - twice the real-terms increase that the NHS has received over its history.
But past lack of investment is not to blame for all the shortcomings in the Health Service.
It can't explain for instance, why services in one hospital can be so much better than those in another in the same town.
Indeed, sometimes the whole debate about shortage of money has helped mask other serious failures in the health service which risk wasting the extra investment that we now want to put in.
So the challenge we laid down when we announced the extra money is that the Government would deliver the investment but the money had to be accompanied by modernisation and reform of the chronic system
failures of the NHS.
That's what the first ever National Plan for the NHS, published on Thursday, delivers.
It's ambitious but it is realistic. Its a plan rooted in the experience of patients and thousands of front-line NHS staff, at every level and in every part of the country who have helped draw it up.
I know, because I've had dozens of meetings with them over the last few months as I've worked to help draw this up.
And together we've produced this plan for the future of our health service. It's a clear strategy, with sustained investment, to deliver real improvements for the patient.
At every level, there will be radical change. And every reform will be driven by the goal of redesigning the NHS around the needs of the patient.
We will tackle the shortage of staff through 7,500 more consultants and
20,000 extra nurses.
And by recruiting more staff, removing unnecessary barriers between professions, modernising contracts for doctors and rewarding and encouraging excellence, we will improve the service for patients and end the culture of waiting in the Health Service.
By 2004 patients will be able to see their GP within 48 hours.
By 2005, the maximum waiting time for an out-patient appointment will be three months, for in-patients six months.
By 2010 we will have 100 new hospital schemes.
We will see modern matrons to ensure high standards on the wards
Patients' champions in every hospital
And a new agreement with the private sector so that we can use their spare beds and operating theatres for NHS patients where appropriate.
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