This is a monumental decision to be made by the public on the 8th of June. If the
Conservatives are elected again we will be losing staff from schools, we will be
seeing inequality, even further inequality, in the school system. The most
disadvantaged and vulnerable children are not getting the education they
deserve...well, they won't be getting the education they deserve
Schools all around the country they're having to make do on an awful lot less
and this is causing redundancies. That means that class sizes are bigger
support staff aren't there. Our schools are pretty much being held together with
sticky tape and blue-tack at the moment. A Labour government would end the free
school program straight away and start to channel, and also as well...the creation
of new grammar schools. It would...that money would then be going straight into
front-line education. It would mean that we can employ teachers. It would mean
that we can train those teachers, we can keep those teachers in
front of children. We can keep class sizes down. These things...this is
the very core of education that we're talking about here and the very future
of public service in this country depends on a Labour victory on June the
8th. There is no question about it.
I didn't have a particularly easy
childhood. I had a parent who was addicted to 'class a' drugs...I was homeless
for over a year and lived in a hostel and at 14 I left school, and because I
couldn't see that education that was the right journey for me and I didn't think
that I had any type of future, but when I was 16 I found out about Educational
Maintenance Allowance and it was that, that was the catalyst
for me changing my life. So now as I'm here today I'm the holder
of a first class degree and that's because of the opportunity that I had
to go and access education.
I know that there are teachers in my local parish, in
the community around, they get very anxious when the school holidays are
coming up because they know that the children are going to go hungry. They're
giving out free school fruit to the children to take home at the end of the
day. I don't know how these children then are going to cope if the government
takes away the free school meal from the most needy pupils and then we're seeing so
many families in our community who are needing to go
to food banks. These are working families. These are also people who may be on
benefits and then get benefit sanctioned.
This is your chance to make a difference. This is your chance to give a fair future
to all the children of Britain. Every child is innocent.
They haven't chosen the way they lead their lives. Every child is vulnerable.
Every child deserves a chance, not just the rich, not just the 'haves', but the 'have
nots'. Every child deserves the right to an education, the right to a free hot
meal, the right to a safe house and a safe life.
What's upsetting is that
nothing really seems to be changing. We keep ignoring it. A young person right
now will never own their own home. The bar just keeps getting raised higher and higher
and higher.
It's council homes for the ordinary,
average person. That's what it needs - and it needs to continue. You also need to be
ring-fencing every single council home which is currently around to make
sure that that is not stolen in the name of privatisation
Half a million homes, come on right now. Half a million homes. To the general public what's
really needed, what's not going to be wasting a lot of the money on private
rent, what can't afford to even feed
themselves because they putting it on bills and everything else . That's going
to make a massive difference to this country and it's going to change the
positiveness of everyone in this country right now.
Commuters on the trains in this country are being made to pay through the nose
for gross abuse of our public transport system. Private rail companies are
driving staff off the stations, closing down ticket offices and criminally
trying to get rid of guards from passenger trains - something which no one
wants, something that's opposed by disabled passengers and by anyone who's got
family traveling on a train and wants to make sure that they're safe and looked
after on their journey. The Labour Party is saying clearly that they're going to
renationalise the train companies. That's a step forward because it means that at
last we begin we can begin to run our rail system in the interest of the
public and to start making it into real public transport.
The more profit you
make the less service you get. So for the shareholders it's higher profit, for the
customer it's less service and yet it's the customer that's paying. So therefore
public transport has failed. What we need is an integrated public service.
The Royal Mail has only recently being privatised but we've seen an aggressive
culture from management in terms of looking for for savings and then
downgrading the services that we're giving. They want to take hours out, they want
to make people's working days longer. The routes for delivery post
people, they want to make them longer and this will only lead to a worsening
service that customers get.
We've seen a massive under
investment in the NHS, despite what the Tories say, we are short of about
twenty billion pounds in the NHS and this means patient care is really
affected. The NHS is now over 20% underfunded and by 2020 the plan is that
it would be, actually, over 30% underfunded. Now, for the first five or
six years of this period, the NHS staff have just kept the show on the road,
working harder and harder...longer hours, greater commitment. The wheels are
now beginning to come off, because they cannot do it any longer. I feel
personally that the NHS is hanging on by the fingertips of its staff.
I've been a doctor in the NHS now for the last ten years and I've been very proud
to work within the NHS, but over the last five or six years I have experienced at
first hand the pernicious effects of Conservative policies, okay? I've worked
on dangerously understaffed wards for both day shifts and night shifts. I've
seen the consequences of delayed ambulance response times. I've heard
horror stories from my colleagues in mental health, who tell of patients dying
at home as a result of the fact that they haven't been able to gain access to
urgent mental health beds and of course over the last couple of years, myself my
and my junior doctor colleagues, we tried to raise the alarm about the criminal
underfunding of the NHS and the government has not listened to us, the
government instead chose to undermine us. So for me I think the question that
faces all of us in a few weeks, on election day, is a moral question. Do we
choose to perpetuate austerity, which will result in further patient harm and
I've seen that at first hand. Or do we vote for fresh alternative, the Labour Party?
It's starting to crack now, that people are starting to get angry now.
People are starting to not do the overtime. People are tired, they're
becoming sick. We're getting punished if we go off sick. It's just becoming a mess.
We see people in acute stages of distress. Sometimes people are acutely
suicidal. Sometimes people are are in very
risky situations. Sometimes there are no beds across the entire country and this
is happening pretty often now, where a patient may be admitted to somewhere in
Scotland because there's no bed in London, for example. We have children in
this country in their teenage years, again who might be very, very unwell and
in a terrible mental state and they are sent halfway across the country...
away from their parents, away from their communities with no one that they know
around them - and expected somehow to get better.
Now underfunding is happening
with a purpose. It's Conservative policy. The reason for that policy is that they
want the NHS to fail. They want the NHS to be seen to fail, so that then they can
use that as a pretext to privatising the NHS. And we're already seeing that happening,
for example over the last few years we're seeing more and more money being
spent on the private sector within the NHS. The amount of taxpayer funds being
spent on private healthcare has doubled over the last five years.
Virgin Healthcare has now got several contracts, including in the South West
of England and now in Kent, where they are the health provider for
children with disability, children in need of safeguarding, adults with learning
disability and for me that's just the perversity: that a private company is
delivering care, trying to make money out of children and adults in need.
There's no place for privatisation in the NHS and for those who say it's not being
privatised, it is and it's being privatised by stealth. Patients may not
realise it, because what they're seeing at the moment is not necessarily...
they will go to their GP, it'll look the same as it did 10 years ago, but
that's beginning to change and there are GPS that are beginning to offer private
appointments and they're beginning to say, you can't see your GP for three
weeks, you can see us today and we'll charge you £45, we'll charge you
£90, we'll charge you £150 for whatever length of
appointment, so that's beginning to happen.
Jeremy Corbyn is committed to
reversing privatisation within the NHS. This means that we will take
back those services from private providers, that they will not go to
various different companies. At the moment the NHS is being fragmented very,
very quickly and it's not the organisation that it once was, so if we
can take that back into public control, then that will make a huge difference to
actually, you know, whether people ultimately have to pay through insurance
schemes, for example.
Jeremy Corbyn to me represents something different from the
ordinary politicians. He represent somebody who we know to be honest and
fair, who's got very deeply grounded values of equality and justice. And he's part also of
a movement - a movement of people behind him, who see that that
we want to see change.
I just didn't see the point of going to the polling
station and voting and now I can see that there's an actual change you can
make by voting. The difference between Jeremy Corbyn's Labour and Theresa May's
Tories is huge and I think it could definitely transform people's lives. As a
young mum, with a baby who's nine months old, I am concerned about the type of
future that she is going to have if we continue on the course that we are on. I
want her to have opportunities to grasp her education. I want her to work for a
decent living wage. I want her to have the opportunity to live in a safe,
comfortable house. These are things that I believe only the Labour Party can
offer for the future, for the next generation that are growing up in Great Britain.
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