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Sunday 1 January 2012

Cameron Delivers New Year Message "We'll Use Games To Get Back On Track"

Rhiannon Mills, Sky News reporter
David Cameron has pledged to use the "global drama" of the Olympics and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee to help get Britain back on track.
In his New Year message the Prime Minister says: "This will be the year Britain sees the world and the world sees Britain.
"It must be the year we go for it - the year the Coalition government I lead does everything it takes to get our country up to strength.
"The coming months will bring the global drama of the Olympics and the glory of the Diamond Jubilee. Cameras and TV channels around the planet will be recording these magnificent events.
"It gives us an extraordinary incentive to look outward, look onwards and to look our best: to feel pride in who we are and what - even in these trying times - we can achieve."
But Mr Cameron also admits 2012 will be difficult and not everyone will have reason to be cheerful. "Of course I know that there will be many people... who are worried about what else the year might bring," he says.
"There are fears about jobs and paying the bills. The search for work has become difficult, particularly for young people. And rising prices have hit household budgets. I get that.
"We are taking action on both fronts. I know how difficult it will be to get through this. But I also know that we will."
As well as stressing the Government has "clear and strong plans" to bring down the deficit, the Prime Minister also hints at a need to curtail the excesses of the City and reform the welfare system.
He goes on: "I profoundly believe that we can turn these things around. That's what I mean by the Big Society. The British people have got what it takes - and the Government has got the ideas and policies we need.
"As we welcome the world to the best Olympics ever - and as in the 60th year of her reign we honour our Queen as the finest and most famous example of British dedication, British duty, British steadiness, British tradition - let's use these things as a mirror of ourselves too, a mirror of the nation.
"I know that if we lift our eyes to the other side we have it in our power to come through this stronger, better balanced, focused on what this fantastic country does best."

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