Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour party promise to transform the lives of every family for the better. They will do this be reopening the 1,000 Sure Start centres that the Conservative party so spitefully closed when entering a needlessly austerity driven power nine years ago. That's a Sure Start centre in every community and a radical expansion of child care in the UK.
Labour will also be putting an end to child poverty ensuring that every child of primary school age is given a free hot meal each day to aid their concentration and learning.
Compare this to Boris Johnson's Conservatives. If returned to power next month, they will ensure that 515 constituencies will receive less funding per pupil than in 2015. Only 17 constituencies will actually get a raise, and they are the ones held by the Conservatives. Because the Tory party are only considered with looking after themselves and providing for their own future. They don't even want to acknowledge the child poverty issue that the UN recently highlighted. They prefer pretending that it isn't even happening, because it's not happening to their children is it?
But Labour aren't just looking to secure your children's future, they are also pledging that mothers will receive not nine months, but twelve months paid maternity. This will ensure that mothers can spend longer with their newborn babies and they will also have the opportunity to choose working hours that suit them.
You may have heard the Tories bleating this weekend about Labour's figures, that they believe (based purely on assumption - remember that the Labour manifesto hasn't actually been published yet) that the spending plans for such pledges are astronomical. But, after his consultation with the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Resolution Foundation amongst others, Oxford University economist Professor Simon Wren-Lewis argues that it is the Tories spending plans that are truly unsustainable...thanks to the needless black hole that is Brexit. Labour's spending plans are actually far more sustainable because they will increase taxes on high earners and the Corporation Tax, something that the Tories do not want to do, because that's hitting their elite friends.
If you find it disgraceful that the Tories are essentially saying we cannot afford to achieve even the basic level of dignity that we all deserve, but they're still happy to fund, protect and bail out their friends, then vote Labour.
If you want your children to have the very best start in life, vote Labour.
If you want the UK to prosper in the future, vote Labour.
Please, please, please, vote Labour at the polls next month.
Mark, if i lived anywhere in Britain apart from Scotland i'd wholeheartedly agree with you.
ReplyDeleteUp here we have a completely different political outlook than England. In most of the years that I've been able to vote, since 1981,the Tories have held power thanks in no small part to working class votes. I voted Labour for years, I'm a working class Trade Unionist would you expect me to do anything else but all my vote did was increase a Labour majority,the few times the English voted them in, or more often reduce a Tory majority.
When the Scottish Independence referendum came about I had to witness Labour MP's MSP's & Grandees (WTF is that) not only standing shoulder to shoulder but on the same fucking platform as the fucking Tories...really turned my stomach...my Old Man would've been turning in his grave. What I'm getting at is that vote for Corbyn all you want, he seems a genuine guy, but I'm voting SNP and have done since that debacle and I'm hoping that we finally manage to see where the Tories are determined to take us get the fuck off this sinking ship before we all drown.
Can't argue with you there comrade. I've many Scottish friends who all say the same thing and yes, if I were in Scotland I daresay that I'd vote for the SNP too because independence has been a long time coming for you guys and I fully support it. I hope that the next ref won't be so blatantly fixed and prejudiced against you. If I am honest I just don't get where Scottish Labour stand. I think they were the biggest victim of Blair's regime and they had to hurriedly get with the programme, resulting in some utter wishy washy opportunists. Now with the rise of both the SNP and Corbyn they seem lost and out of step. Good luck to you and who knows, let's hope we may see the SNP and Labour share a platform.
DeleteMark, thanks for your reply and support. Scottish "Labour" seem pathologically incapable of having anything to do with the SNP..they still think, and this my opinion, that we're all going to come to our senses and return to the Labour fold. All this without them having to admit that they fucked up big time...they've always taken our votes for granted and they still believe that we'll come trotting back..not a fucking chance.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that you know how much it pains me to write that. Despite my support for the SNP I'm not a natural nationalist...I'm far more comfortable as a socialist but what can I do when the Labour party deserted me.