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Ladies and gentlemen, pleasd welcome Joanna Baxter. | :00:57. | :01:33. | |
Good afternoon. Afternoon. H like the response! So, we're now going to | :01:34. | :01:45. | |
continue with the economic debate that was started this morning. We're | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
going to start by taking telporary composite five about defendhng our | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
public services, which is to be moved by Unison. Could be FB you be | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
ready to second? APPLAUSE | :02:04. | :02:17. | |
Dave Prentice, Unison, moving composite five on our public | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
services. I want to start at the very beginning by congratul`ting | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
Jeremy on his election as L`bour leader. | :02:27. | :02:27. | |
APPLAUSE Our union has back to Jeremx over | :02:28. | :02:39. | |
the past two years because time and again he has been on the right side | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
of the issues that matter to our members, fighting austerity, | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
opposing a pay freeze, investing in a fair economy. I am proud to be | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
here representing 1.3 million Unison members. Proud public service | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
workers who do so much for so little. And they will tell xou | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
straight, anyone in our deldgation will tell you straight that the best | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
public services are those that are delivered by them, direct to our | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
communities. They will tell you straight... They will tell xou | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
straight that privatisation has been an unmitigated disaster, for the | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
service user, our members, `nd the taxpayer. Yet, despite all of that | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
evidence, the past five years has seen a doubling of outsourchng. It | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
now stands at an incredible ?12 billion worth of assets, given over | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
to the private sector. Under this Tory government, it will dotble | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
again to ?250 billion. The size of the state, as we move forward, our | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
welfare state, will shrink to levels not seen since the 1930s. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
Undermining the welfare state and every part of our public sector | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
Conference, everything we stand for is at stake. Everything we have | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
fought for is teetering on the edge. That's why we need a Labour Party | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
committed to a programme of stopping and reversing the failed experiment | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
of privatisation. APPLAUSE | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
No more, no more whatsoever of the weasel words of new Labour | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
manifestos. Something that latters as much to firefighters as nurses. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Police staff, as much of it matters to train drivers. Teaching | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
assistants, as much of it m`tters to postal workers. The only wax we can | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
do that, the only way we can achieve anything is if we win the ndxt | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
election and we defeat the Tories. The national health service, the | :05:10. | :05:19. | |
minimum wage, equal rights for women, our education system. They | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
were not achieved by shouting loudly, they were achieved by us | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
winning elections. That is vital, absolutely vital, if we are going to | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
get publicly owned public sdrvices. The best public services for our | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
people. Conference, in many ways, the last year has been a wasted | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
year, and we cannot afford `nother. If we are back here next ye`r, | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
talking to ourselves about ourselves, obsessing about rule | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
changes, internal rows, then we will fail the British people. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
APPLAUSE Lets be proud of our bold policies | :06:05. | :06:17. | |
where debating. Stop talking of these selections and division. Let's | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
tell the country of our plans to change and stop sitting in rules, | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
briefing against each other. The next election is not lost btt we | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
have a mountain to climb. No more wasted years, no more wasted | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
conferences. It is time to get out there, winning over people hn | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Stevenage, Lincoln, and my own constituency of Enfield Southgate, | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
winning trust and votes. Th`t is how we change the country for the | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
better. It is only by putting our party back together can we `chieve | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
an end to privatisation. It is only by bringing our party back together | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
we can build better public services for all. Only by bringing otr party | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
back together can we ensure decent pay for our public service | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
champions. Conference, the Labour Party, our Labour Party, is the | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
greatest force for social jtstice, equality, prosperity, our country | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
has ever known. To turn force into reality, we must be a party of | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
government. That is why our movement was founded by the Labour P`rty to | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
win power for working peopld, to change our country there can be no | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
greater task. Let's do it together. Let stand together. Let's come | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
together. Let's unite and, hn unison, let's take power back to our | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
people at the next general dlection. I move. | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
APPLAUSE Thank you. I'm from the fird | :07:54. | :08:16. | |
Brigades union. You may havd noticed we have been absent for a fdw years. | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
Well, we are back. Again, vdry proud to have supported the Leader of the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Labour Party last year and hn the campaign over the summer. I am proud | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
to be affiliating to the Labour Party, to fight for policies, | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
reflecting the demands for workers' rights, investment in public | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
services, and the rest of it. This is an important composite for us and | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
for others as Dave has outlhned working and relying on publhc | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
services. In my own servers, the Fire and Rescue Service, we are | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
really at a turning point. H ask you to bring about some work our people | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
do, some of the recent incidents. The London helicopter crash, the | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
sure air disaster, the power station collapse. The floods affecthng local | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
communities. Civil disturbances of 2011. Firefighters carry out 40 000 | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
rescues last year. That is lore than 100 a day. Since 2010, more than one | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
third of our central funding has been slashed and that was identified | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
by the National Audit Officd just last year. In 2010, there wdre | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
60,000 operational firefighters across the UK. Today, that figure, | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
is 50,000. 10,000 jobs destroyed as a result of austerity poliches. Yet, | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
the cuts keep on coming and keep on coming. The way they deliver the | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
cuts is by closing fire stations, getting rid of fire engines, and | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
getting rid of jobs. Bizarrdly, that means when you dial 999 tod`y, it | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
takes us longer to get to emergencies than it did 20 xears | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
ago. In our view, that is a disgrace. And yet we face a further | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
20% cut in central funding, according to the settlement signed | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
off at Westminster earlier this year. I want to put on record that | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
the Fire Brigades union will never sit back meekly and accept those | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
cuts. We will fight them at every level, local league -- locally and | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
nationally and we urge him to support us. We've faced othdr | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
threats. The policing and Crime Bill has been through the House of | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Commons and now sits in the House of Lords. We believe allowing police | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
and crime commission is to take over the governance of Fire And Rescue | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Services are fundamentally flawed. Let's be clear, a century ago there | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
were police and Fire Servicds. They offered a rape or service, `nd they | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
were scrapped during the Second World War. Nobody suggested a return | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
to them. Firefighting is an Independent, humanitarian sdrvice. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Firefighters rescue people `nd keep our community safe. Firefighters | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
have unprecedented access into people's home is, precisely because | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
we are not other agencies and it is an important part of the work we do. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
We are fearful this move to close collaboration and the takeover of | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
hours service by police and crime Commissioners will undermind that | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
Independent, humanitarian role. It is a matter about which we `re | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
greatly concerned. It is also a cost-cutting exercise. We fdar that | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
PCC 's will be used to buy the run down the Fire Service to fund police | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
forces. We are opposing this bill. In closing, I want to ask everyone | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
of you to stand up with us to defend the Fire and Rescue Service, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
alongside our other campaigns on health, education and so on. The | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
Fire Service is a precious resource and we cannot allow it to bd | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
wrecked. It is part of the other debates we are having this week | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
about setting out a real, r`dical talented for working people that | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
stands up for workers' rights, public service, investment hn no | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
services, and for shifting politics in favours that is another favour of | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
ordinary people. We are protd to be here supporting. -- politics in | :12:37. | :12:45. | |
favour of ordinary people. Thank you both. We will now take the temporary | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
composite six to be moved bx Aslef. Could you be ready to second? | :12:55. | :13:21. | |
Thank you, chair. Tosh McDonald of Aslef, the little trade union that | :13:22. | :13:31. | |
represents 97% of the UK's train drivers. And proud. What I want to | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
say before I move onto this item, we know, as train drivers, when things | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
go wrong in our industry, when we see things like what has happened at | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
Clapham Junction, what happdned at Potters bar, it is the Fire Service | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
and the other publicly funddd emergency services that comd to the | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
aid of our members and the passengers, and we will stand | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
shoulder to shoulder with the Fire Brigade union as they are bding | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
attacked by -based evil govdrnment. I am proud to move this contemporary | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
motion, not only on behalf of Aslef but also on behalf of Doncaster | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
Central CLP, my own constittency Labour Party. Action for Sale in | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
August published a report that the public money, public money taken in | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
dividends to the private rahl operators increased in the last year | :14:35. | :14:43. | |
by 21%. That amounts to ?222 million of taxpayers money paid out in the | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
last year in dividends to the privateers. We are so pleasdd, not | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
only that we have a leadership that will take that back into public | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
ownership, to work for us, we're also pleased that that monex will | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
now come into investment, into the infrastructure. Our colleagtes for | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
other unions will work and build better infrastructure for otr | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
trains. We are so pleased that instead of that money going out and | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
then going up, and staff nulbers being cut, that money can now pay | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
for investment to keep fares are low and to keep staff on trains and | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
bring more staff onto the platform is to help the public when they need | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
assistance in our rail industry Back in public ownership, wd want to | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
work with our comrades who drive buses in an integrated publhc | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
transport system, where we have worked together, we meet up with | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
each other place where therd is not the rail line and our colle`gues | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
will drive the buses, take them on in public ownership. Municipal, | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
publicly owned and controlldd bus services, therefore when people need | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
them and not where the most profit can be got. | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Now we are seeing driver only operation. It has been around a long | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
time, since the 80s. Mistakds were made introducing it then and we | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
don't have to keep making the same mistakes over and over again. We | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
have our disputes on Southern Railways. -- Southern Failw`ys. But | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
we mustn't just blame these private companies. The DFT are behind it. | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
Southern Railways is not thd franchise, it is managing it for the | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
DFT and it is implementing the cuts that the DFT want to implemdnt and | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
when we are in power the Department for Transport should be abott | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
building and creating, not `bout cutting. When we see invitations to | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
tender being put out for thdse franchises, on Northern Rail, it is | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
the DFT is the 50% of the route miles an Northern Rail must be | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
driver only operation. But now one of the biggest franchises in the | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
country there is no driver only operation. It goes against the | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
collective bargaining agreelents we have made other generations. The DFT | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
undermining it, to bring it into more profit for their friends. We'll | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
say this, we have some great labour councils, local authorities, | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
passenger transport executive 's. We see it in Merseyrail, the great | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
Labour authority, Merseyrail with investment coming for new trains. | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
Please letters altogether m`ke sure that the there is a place on them | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
trains for guards, safety critical staff, to look after the passengers | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
who are travelling. When we talk about Northern Rail, and all the | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
Labour-controlled councils hn the north, when the DFT is saying they | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
have to be driver only drains. We want safety critical staff `nd those | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
trains, getting from the pl`tform to the train. And let's stop this | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
nonsense. Where train operating companies can say to a disabled | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
person who wants to travel somewhere where there is not staffed. It is | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
all right as long as long as you tell us beforehand, we will get you | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
off at the nearest staff st`tion. They should be our team members | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
working on those platforms, they should be TSSA in the booking | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
offices and union members throughout the industry providing a proper | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
service, not a cheap cut-prhce service. One thing I will tdll you, | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
public ownership of the railways not-for-profit agreed is ond of the | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
biggest vote winners you will find and ask Tory constituents in | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Southern rail whether they would like to see it back in publhc | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
ownership, where we are providing a service, not providing the trauma | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
for them trying to get to work, college or wherever they nedd to be. | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
Support the motion. APPLAUSD Conference, Lewisham West and Penge, | :19:31. | :19:58. | |
wondering how you follow a worker legends like Tosh. I'm not ` railway | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
worker or even the daughter of a railway worker. My dad workdd in the | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
north London furniture tradd and my mum worked in the rag trade so I do | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
know about the decimation of industry. I am a railway passenger. | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
I know that service and safdty are what the Railways should be about. | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
It is a vital resource. And it should be respected industrx and its | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
workers should be respected also. And we need to reclaim its | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
ownership. We need to develop it and we need to improve it and wd need to | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
support its attendant industries. Customers want to be sold thckets by | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
thinking human being who can discuss options, consider the best ticket | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
and sort you out a ticket from boundary zone six, if you'rd coming | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
out of London and you have ` pass lightly, you need a human bding And | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
especially you need a human being if like my daughter you have a learning | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
disability, I had to tell hdr not to buy the ticket from the ticket | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
machine because it befuddled and distressed, and it never solve best | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
price. It really sold her a ticket at the same price she bought it last | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
week. It was a complete and utter disaster. That is how it is for | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
people who are a bit more vulnerable, you need a human being. | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
And how often have I been unable to get the best priced ticket on a | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Saturday afternoon because the ticket is shut. Then when I get to | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
the platform train has just left and I have 29 minutes to wait for the | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
next one because the franchhse that we have God only offers a h`lf-hour | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
service and on that line in London that is one of the worst services | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
provided on local trains in London. And I believe we are all safer if | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
there is the second properlx trained person on our trains. Who c`n help | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
us if things go a bit wrong and then came back to vulnerable people. | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
Sometimes things do go wrong and you only need one Hobby Lobby two from a | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
rail industry to know that sometimes things can go very wrong on the | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
trains. I've met a young man who's had an accident falling between a | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
train and a platform, he's lost both his legs, and we are talking about | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
making platforms so there is no one looking down the train, no one | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
spotting if someone is having that sort of accident. If only one life | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
is lost or one life is perm`nently changed by that sort of acchdent | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
then we are paying a price luch too high for these economies. Now I have | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
waited a long time for the Labour leadership that believes in the | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
railway and believes in public ownership of the railway. Wd want to | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
move away from polluting personal transport to affordable public | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
transport. Whatever happened to workers tickets that people used to | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
go to get there early in thd morning? Why should young pdople who | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
are on some sort of minimal minimum wage have to work for hours just to | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
pay for the ticket that gets them to work? This is a disgrace. This needs | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
to be a public service. And indeed we need to keep the service in all | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
our service industries. We need to returner Railways to the benefit of | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
its users. We need to develop and improve it and its attendant | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
industries, including train building. How much heavy industry do | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
we still have in this country? We can build trains, we can do that | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
well. Mutch could you wind tp now? And we need to provide a trtly | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
integrated public transport system. Chair, conference, I second. | :24:05. | :24:18. | |
Thank you so much to everybody for those contributions. Can I see all | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
those who wish to speak in the debate. I will start over hdre. | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
Someone waving a red book at the back. A lady with a white coat. And | :24:32. | :24:47. | |
a pamphlet. And the gentlem`n just there with the dark jacket. | :24:48. | :25:28. | |
Conference... Bottle of watdr handy. I want to talk about two pohnts I | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
might take longer than thred minutes, but I've only got three | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
minutes. So can I tell you `bout once upon a time, there was a great | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
British postal system. Post`l workers proud to serve our nation. | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
From lands end to John O'Groats from Belfast to Bangor. One Stam, | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
one price, and a post officd in every community -- stamp. Proud to | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
serve our nation. Sadly tod`y would remains of a public service is | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
closure. They are closing offices, they are stealing our pensions, with | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
a management not willing to listen or invest. That management hs the | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
Tory government, sadly they are the ones that are coming with ldss | :26:44. | :26:53. | |
investment. The management running Scotland, the management of SNP one | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
policy, independence. We have had ten years of independence in | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
Scotland. We had a referendtm two years ago, the Scottish people voted | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
to remain, 55% to remain in the UK. 55%, clear, to remain, this | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
once-in-a-lifetime vote. Wh`t happened after Brexit? Scottish | :27:27. | :27:35. | |
Labour paid the price. SNP sends down 56 Lions, Lions, to represent | :27:36. | :27:45. | |
my nation, my country. Sadlx the lion has fell asleep at the wheel. | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
Since Brexit, we now have a confused SNP, who still want independence | :27:53. | :28:02. | |
from the UK but yet we want European governors. Conference, I didn't want | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
Brexit, you didn't want Brexit, but you have to accept the result and | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
now go forward with that result And I call upon the SNP, stop t`king the | :28:15. | :28:24. | |
last ten years, except the result of the independence vote. Let's get | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
back to business in Scotland. Let's get back to a Scottish parlhament | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
having the powers, the powers to deal with housing, education, give | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
local government the money `nd the hospitals need the money is well and | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
get your hands off the hosphtals. Last week Labour returned, | :28:47. | :28:58. | |
Scotland's convector labour and we welcome gotten back to Labotr. - | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
Scotland is coming back to Labour and we welcome Scotland back to | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
Labour. Finally, my second point, this will be quick... But jtst as | :29:08. | :29:15. | |
important. This Labour Partx, you and I, all under this one roof, | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
remember why you joined the Labour Party. Remember what labour stands | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
for. Work, that is what Labour Party about. If you have one on the left | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
and one on the right and we come together we are stronger, that is | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
the Labour Party we want. Stpport the motion, thank you, confdrence. | :29:40. | :30:00. | |
Gloria De Piero, MP for Ashfield. Conference, today I want to talk to | :30:01. | :30:09. | |
you about the injustice of the Mineworkers pension scheme `nd I | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
want us to send a strong message from this conference that wd won't | :30:16. | :30:16. | |
tolerate it any longer. I stand before you as the fhrst MP | :30:17. | :30:27. | |
for Ashfield to serve with no men working underground. We, as a | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
community, are proud of our heritage and are proud that minors from | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
communities like Ashfield hdlped to power Britain for generations. The | :30:36. | :30:45. | |
miners deserve our thanks and their widows deserve a fair pension. | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
Conference, it's a scandal that the Government takes 50% of any surplus | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
from the mine workers pensions in order to guarantee it. All we ask is | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
the Government to negotiate for a fair share of the risk betwden the | :31:02. | :31:07. | |
miners and the tax payer. It is not much to ask. Today, let's sdnd a | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
message from this conferencd to the miners and their families. Xou need | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
us standing with you in this battle for a fair pension. We will be here. | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
You deserve justice. We won't rest till you get it. You have fought for | :31:24. | :31:29. | |
our movement, now our movemdnt will fight you. Thank you, conference. | :31:30. | :31:56. | |
A proud Port Talbot steel worker for 33 years. Thank you. Speaking on the | :31:57. | :32:06. | |
industrial strategy composite, when they met here a year ago, there was | :32:07. | :32:14. | |
devastating news of closures. We called on the Government to | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
intervene. They fail to act did nothing. The light of the blast | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
furnace went out and thousands lost their jobs and a whole commtnity was | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
devastated. It was nothing short of an act of industrial vandalhsm. | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
Conference, we must never allow this to happen again. Now, no ond is in | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
doubt about the to Port Talbot. Conference, the steel industry is | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
bigger than one site. I am proud to be joined today by steelworkers from | :32:45. | :32:52. | |
some of the others deal sitds in the UK, Corby, Teesside, Scunthorpe and | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
Scotland. The past years we have stood together and fought for our | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
industry. I ask you to pay tribute to them who are with us tod`y. Thank | :33:01. | :33:03. | |
you. APPLAUSE | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
Our fight is when we cannot afford to lose. Losing our steelworks | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
import told will destroy thd community. It is not just the loss | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
of jobs, it is a loss of our identity and sense of purpose. | :33:19. | :33:22. | |
Steelworkers have been the guardians of our industry for generathons Our | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
campaign did not start with a threat to read Kirk, we have been calling | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
for action for years on energy costs, procurement and steel | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
dumping. Conference, I would like to pay tribute to those who have been | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
by our side throughout, espdcially the MPs. Not just grabbing headlines | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
and doing the hard work in Westminster, asking questions and | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
calling for debates and holding government and this is to account. | :33:48. | :33:50. | |
Joining steelworkers calls to save our steel. It has not been dasy | :33:51. | :33:56. | |
getting the Government to act. They may have started to listen. I only | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
wish they started listening a while ago and could save the plants that | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
have gone. That is the pricd of being in opposition. It leaves the | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
powerless to intervene. It leans we see things like the devastation of | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
Redcar, thousands of people losing their jobs, while the Tories are | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
wringing their hands. That hs why we need to work together. For our | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
economy, to work for an indtstrial strategy, to work to win thd trust | :34:26. | :34:29. | |
of all our voters, and to s`ve our steel. Thank you. | :34:30. | :34:33. | |
Three more speakers. A lady waving a duck at the back. That is a good | :34:34. | :34:51. | |
prop. A gentleman waving a red bag. A lady with a yellow scarf. | :34:52. | :35:44. | |
Afternoon, conference. I wotld like to take this opportunity to pay | :35:45. | :35:59. | |
tribute to our former Labour MP who sadly lost his seat in last year's | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
in an election. I am followhng on on some of the issues that John | :36:05. | :36:11. | |
McDonnell raised this morning about the economy. Conference, wh`t is the | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
purpose of an economy and economic growth? Economic growth is `bout who | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
gets what. Economic growth should be about who gets a reward. Under the | :36:23. | :36:30. | |
Tories, and let's be honest, the Lib Dem also in government, the aim was | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
to ensure the economy benefhted the few. Under Labour, the economy | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
should exist to benefit the many, as John McDonnell said this morning in | :36:42. | :36:47. | |
his switch in emphasis to a more interventionist economy. For those | :36:48. | :36:57. | |
benefits, did the Tories and the Lib Dems in 2010, for whose bendfit did | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
they run the economy? Georgd Osborne and his Lib Dem henchmen at the | :37:03. | :37:12. | |
Treasury, Danny Alexander dhd their best to make the majority worse off | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
and the few better off. How did they do this? Under the pretence of | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
cutting the deficit, they attacked the living standards of manx people. | :37:23. | :37:28. | |
They attacked the public services. They called this austerity. | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
Posterity appears to be for the many, the poor. Cutting public | :37:33. | :37:39. | |
services and not for the few. They cut real income to public sdctor | :37:40. | :37:47. | |
workers, they cut benefits to the disabled, they cut benefits to | :37:48. | :37:54. | |
ordinary families, child benefit. We are seeing a hike in student debt. I | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
can go on but I only have a few minutes. The Labour Party, `s John | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
McDonnell quite rightly said this morning, is the only party that can | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
work in the interests of us. Working the interests of the majority, | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
indeed drew his interventionist economic approach. We are the only | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
party that can reverse the damage done to ordinary people's lhes by | :38:19. | :38:22. | |
the Tories and the Lib Dems. When I heard last week the Liberal leader | :38:23. | :38:28. | |
of the Liberal Democrats conference last week appealing to Labotr voters | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
to vote for them, as they are the only ones who could oppose the | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
Tories, I was shadowed with disbelief at the hypocrisy. -- | :38:38. | :38:44. | |
shuddered. For five years, the Lib Dems were willing partners to the | :38:45. | :38:47. | |
Tories in attacking the livhng standards of our people. Let us say | :38:48. | :38:58. | |
to the Lib Dem voters, join us in opposing the Tories. It is the | :38:59. | :39:06. | |
Tories and the Lib Dems who exist to benefit and ensure the economy | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
benefits the few. It is us, as John McDonnell quite rightly said this | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
morning, through the intervdntionist approach, who will ensure a benefit | :39:15. | :39:25. | |
in the economy will benefit the majority. Thank you, conferdnce | :39:26. | :39:26. | |
APPLAUSE Comrades, Jason Turvey, transport | :39:27. | :39:52. | |
salaried staff Association `nd first-time delegate, supporting | :39:53. | :39:58. | |
composite six. Conference, H am very pleased to speak in support of this | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
composite. Over the last 20 or so years, privatisation has crdated an | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
expensive, fragmented and inefficient railway network. It has | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
long since stopped looking to serve the public instead becoming a cash | :40:13. | :40:15. | |
cow for fat cat privateers. The robber is not run for the bdnefit of | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
the users but the benefit of shareholders. -- the railwax. Rail | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
users have become collateral damage in disputes. We are seeing this on | :40:26. | :40:34. | |
Southern, the franchise takhng state-sponsored attack on its staff. | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
Thousands have suffered for months at the hands of the franchise | :40:39. | :40:46. | |
holder. Trains were cancelldd. They have seen timetables rewritten, | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
amended and then trains cancelled again. They have left for work | :40:51. | :40:53. | |
having no idea when they will get there and less idea about what time | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
they will get home. We have seen 300 trains cancelled from the ptblished | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
timetable and the excuse Sotthern use was high levels of staff | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
sickness. It must be a pretty shoddy employer if you are so setthng your | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
staff will go sick that you can timetable for it. Frankly, Southern | :41:10. | :41:21. | |
is the Sports Direct of railway operators. We have seen Southern | :41:22. | :41:32. | |
make millions in profits and take millions of pounds in funds from the | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
gunmen to continue their attacks on staff. On safety and on service -- | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
from the Government. When p`ssengers on Southern thought it could not get | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
any worse, they have been told they no longer have the right to purchase | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
a ticket to travel from ticket office and will have to wait for | :41:50. | :41:56. | |
their train, if it turns up all on and understaffed or underst`ffed | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
station. We support the provision of a guard on every train, the halting | :42:01. | :42:05. | |
of the proliferation of driver only operated trains, and we support the | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
right of every passenger on our realm network to buy a tickdt from a | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
ticket office from a trains, committed and helpful member of | :42:14. | :42:20. | |
staff. Conference, I support. - from a trained, committed and | :42:21. | :42:26. | |
helpful member of staff. Just before the next speaker starts, can I see | :42:27. | :42:29. | |
if there are other people who would like to speak in the debate? OK We | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
have a gentleman there, a l`dy over there, with the blacktop. And there | :42:37. | :42:46. | |
is a lady just at the bottol in a patterned dress and dark cardigan. | :42:47. | :42:57. | |
You, yes! Hello, conference. First-time delegate. I'm so thrilled | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
about the fracking, I cannot tell you. Thank you so much. I al so | :43:02. | :43:09. | |
thrilled. Want to take a le`f out of the book of Jeremy Corbyn PLQs, this | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
is from my 20-year-old son, Freddie. He has asked when will lead a bust | :43:17. | :43:24. | |
the myth that we wreck the dconomy? -- when will Labour bust thd myth. | :43:25. | :43:28. | |
This is still we're hearing on the doorstep as the Tories have made a | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
good job of embedding this false rhetoric. We need a sustaindd | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
campaign to bust the myth on the front foot and not just addressing | :43:38. | :43:41. | |
the subject in defence. We need to put out a clear statement of fact in | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
leaflets and on social medi` exactly how the economic crash happdned We | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
need to highlight that the banking crisis was the mixing of sub-prime | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
mortgages in the general mortgage market commentating in unsustainable | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
debt. This was initiated by the deregulation of the banks and so | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
heralded casino banking, or instigated under Margaret Thatcher's | :44:06. | :44:08. | |
Tory government. We need an effective flow chart of fax in a | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
sustained campaign which highlights the fact that since George Osborne, | :44:13. | :44:19. | |
Cameron and the rest of the Bullingdon Club took office, and | :44:20. | :44:23. | |
despite austerity, the debt has more than doubled. And so it continues | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
under this current Labour Administration. Osborne borrowed | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
more in five years than Labour did in 13. Let's get that message out | :44:33. | :44:33. | |
there loud and clear. Thank you Afternoon, conference. I am the | :44:34. | :45:01. | |
mother of twins with another on the way and first-time delegate. | :45:02. | :45:02. | |
APPLAUSE I represent a suburb of Redcar NT | :45:03. | :45:16. | |
side, which includes a largd tub of former employees of the SSI | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
steelworks. -- and Teesside. We were hit by the demise of the SSH | :45:23. | :45:26. | |
steelworks which followed Tory government determination not to stop | :45:27. | :45:31. | |
in providing and rescuing otr package and steel-making in the | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
north-east. We are a small community, around 6000 people. Iron | :45:36. | :45:41. | |
and steel making is in their hearts and blood. The closure of the plant | :45:42. | :45:50. | |
12 months ago was a massive blow. It affected my community, my town, my | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
friends. Working was not just part of a job or part of the indtstry, it | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
was a way of life. So many people have had their way of life taken | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
away from them. I have only been a Labour councillor since May 20 5th, | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
so the news that steelworks and blast furnace was set to close her | :46:09. | :46:15. | |
ever was a baptism of fire. With Christmas fast approaching, and | :46:16. | :46:17. | |
knowing that families would struggle, I'd talked to my fellow | :46:18. | :46:22. | |
Redcar Labour councillors. That is when the Teesside steel appdal was | :46:23. | :46:23. | |
born. The appeal gathered momentul | :46:24. | :46:34. | |
quickly. Sufficient were thd donations that the appeal w`s able | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
to offer support to over 300 families in their time of nded. | :46:40. | :46:44. | |
Trade unions were massive and magnificent supporters of the fund, | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
as were local community grotps, churches, businesses and | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
individuals. One local schoolboy, nine years old, then Everton, was so | :46:55. | :46:57. | |
moved by the closure that whth the support of his parents and friends | :46:58. | :47:07. | |
the organised a fantastic Christmas party -- Ben Ebdon. With gifts for | :47:08. | :47:09. | |
the families who had lost their jobs. One year on and the steel | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
appeal committee is working with Redcar MP and a fairly. We `re | :47:15. | :47:21. | |
working -- Anna Thurley. Working to try and use the residue of the funds | :47:22. | :47:24. | |
from the fields make sure there is a lasting support legacy. To those who | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
continue to be affected by the steelworks closure. We in Rddcar | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
sort your support for our c`mpaign a year ago today and I am thanking you | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
today on the half of everybody to everybody who helped, thank you | :47:40. | :47:48. | |
Dormanstown was built in 1907. Specifically to house the elployees | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
of the iron and steel works. Later part of the nationalised Brhtish | :47:54. | :47:59. | |
steel. Everyday we see this steelworks, once bustling and noisy, | :48:00. | :48:03. | |
dirty, even, but now it stands silent. The blast furnace the lonely | :48:04. | :48:11. | |
and broken iron frame slowlx crumbling on the mouth of the River | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
Tees. Although we lost our steelworks... Sorry. We havd not | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
lost our hearts. We have not lost our hope. APPLAUSE | :48:22. | :48:33. | |
So I ask conference, save otr steel, don't let the Tories do to steal | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
what they did to the shipbuhlding in the 1990s. Thank you, conference. | :48:39. | :48:46. | |
Comments, member of Scottish parliament for the Lothian region. I | :48:47. | :49:17. | |
didn't expected to speak it as from Trinidad I had to commit thdm with | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
some words of caution for mx friends here in England and across the UK. A | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
friendly warning to my brothers and sisters. Some people have bden | :49:26. | :49:30. | |
seduced into believing that the Scottish National party are a party | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
of the left. APPLAUSE And a party that is progressive and | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
a party that we should be doing deals with. Let me tell you like it | :49:40. | :49:48. | |
is. A few home truths. Why would the Labour Party ever contemplate the | :49:49. | :49:54. | |
deal with a party that takes a % cut in Scotland's block grant and | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
turns it into an 11% cut for Scotland's councils. Why wotld we do | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
a deal with the party that has cut 130,000 college places for our young | :50:05. | :50:11. | |
people? Why would we do a ddal with the fire setters privatised ferries, | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
the sleeper service and givdn away the ScotRail franchise. Why would we | :50:18. | :50:21. | |
do deal with a party that h`sn't introduced a single progressive | :50:22. | :50:26. | |
economic policy in ten years? And why would we do deal with a party | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
that wants to divide us on the basis of nation instead of uniting us on | :50:31. | :50:31. | |
the basis of our class? Conference, if public services of | :50:32. | :50:46. | |
the civilising force in our society, public services are the glud that | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
binds us together and educate our children, care for the elderly and | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
keep us safe. In Scotland the attainment gap in schools is | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
growing. Our social care system is on the brink and our NHS is under | :50:59. | :51:03. | |
pressure like never before. But last week in the Herald newspaper Nicola | :51:04. | :51:05. | |
Sturgeon said independence transcends all of that. So she said | :51:06. | :51:12. | |
the families struggling to pay their rent and mortgage, the young person | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
on the zero hours contract, the 70,000 council workers who have lost | :51:17. | :51:19. | |
their jobs, it's OK, don't worry about all of that. Independdnce is | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
the answer. Admittedly this, conference, you can't pay your dues | :51:25. | :51:30. | |
with a sole tyre and you can't eat a flag. -- Saltire. So I say to my | :51:31. | :51:38. | |
friends and colleagues across the UK, don't judge the Nationalists by | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
their rhetoric, judge them on their failure to protect our essential | :51:44. | :51:47. | |
services. When the SNP act aggressively they will find | :51:48. | :51:50. | |
themselves in the same lobbx is Labour MPs in the House of Commons. | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
But when they failed to act in government they will find themselves | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
attacked and exposed by Labour in Hollywood. So help us fight back in | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
Scotland. Help us develop a progressive alternative to defend | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
public services and deliver for ordinary working people and help us | :52:09. | :52:12. | |
unite workers from Shetland to lands end because the interest of a worker | :52:13. | :52:18. | |
in Lerwick is the same as the interest of a worker in Cold War. | :52:19. | :52:25. | |
Never forget, unity is strength -- in Cornwall. | :52:26. | :52:40. | |
Thank you, chair. Carol Wilcox, Christchurch, Labour land c`mpaign. | :52:41. | :52:55. | |
Labour governments believe hn public expenditure. They believe in public | :52:56. | :53:03. | |
goods and services. We saw that with the last Labour government, they had | :53:04. | :53:08. | |
a huge task in order to rendw our infrastructure, to the investment in | :53:09. | :53:14. | |
where it had been lacking so much in previous Tory government. And this | :53:15. | :53:17. | |
next Labour government will have to do even more. But we'll havd to do | :53:18. | :53:25. | |
it without the help, not help, without public - private | :53:26. | :53:34. | |
partnership, PFI things. All good public investment increases land | :53:35. | :53:46. | |
values, local land values. Ht can be demonstrated by the Jubilee line | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
extension which cost taxpaydrs 3.5 billion and we know that local land | :53:53. | :54:02. | |
values increased by ?13 billion You can see the same thing happdning | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
with the Crossrail project. Land values are increasing all around | :54:08. | :54:21. | |
there. So the source of the taxpayers should be land, OK? If you | :54:22. | :54:30. | |
had tax on land values he would have a virtuous circle, where increased | :54:31. | :54:39. | |
public investment increases land values, it will then increase the | :54:40. | :54:46. | |
tax take from land value tax, which will then lead to increased public | :54:47. | :54:53. | |
is venture. This is really ` sustainable multiplier effect, as | :54:54. | :54:55. | |
was described by Keynes. APPLAUSE Conference, would probably have time | :54:56. | :55:10. | |
for one more Speaker. I'm jtst Pentiffic the person that jtmped up | :55:11. | :55:15. | |
first. That fact I'm just going to pick the person that jumped up | :55:16. | :55:17. | |
first, with the blue pamphldt. Hi, conference. Conference, I think | :55:18. | :56:05. | |
you would agree the Labour Party has done some great things for the | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
country. Like the NHS, the welfare state and upholding the principal | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
that everyone deserves a second chance. But all of this is ` risk | :56:16. | :56:22. | |
because of a Tory government. One that was decided without thd | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
majority of the people wanthng it. We see more and more people unable | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
to feed their families, unable to find good housing, and stuck in work | :56:31. | :56:35. | |
-based poverty. We need to stop this. From going any further. | :56:36. | :56:42. | |
Otherwise our democracy is `t stake. Our NHS will be destroyed. @nd we | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
will be back to the dark agds of hospital beds in corridors `nd | :56:49. | :56:56. | |
people unable to survive. Wd stop this by winning in 2020. Winning is | :56:57. | :57:00. | |
the way we can really implelent the policies that we want. Like a | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
reliable and affordable railway in the hands of the public. Thd end to | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
exploitative zero hours contracts and the largest house-buildhng | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
projects the Second World W`r. To do this, we need three things. We need | :57:16. | :57:23. | |
unity, principles and activhsm. We need a party that is strong | :57:24. | :57:27. | |
together, the Parliamentary party that respects the leader and the | :57:28. | :57:31. | |
membership's decision to eldct them... APPLAUSE | :57:32. | :57:38. | |
We also need principles and activism. Every single Labotr member | :57:39. | :57:43. | |
needs to get out and convince the public and the electorate that their | :57:44. | :57:46. | |
support and answers lie with Labour and Labour alone. Because, comrades, | :57:47. | :57:57. | |
and the end of the day, our Prime Minister, the members of Parliament | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
and even our leader can go back to their homes knowing that it's warm, | :58:03. | :58:09. | |
with food in the cupboards `nd on the table. And trust in knowing that | :58:10. | :58:16. | |
they have a sustainable pay packets. But the people that really need us | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
most cannot. They are the ones that don't know where the next mdal is | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
coming from. Don't know if they can send their child on that school trip | :58:27. | :58:31. | |
or pay for the bill instead. So please, conference, don't f`il the | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
ones that need us most. Let's become united and leave the revolution for | :58:37. | :58:38. | |
social justice and fairness. Thank you. -- lead the revolution. | :58:39. | :58:53. | |
Conference, Debbie Abrahams, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
Pensions, will shortly be addressing is that before she speaks wd have a | :58:59. | :58:59. | |
video. Good morning. I'm appointed to carry | :59:00. | :59:10. | |
out assessments for employmdnt alone. Can you walk more th`n 1 | :59:11. | :59:17. | |
metres? Can you reach your `rm to put something in your top pocket. | :59:18. | :59:23. | |
Can I ask your question? Ard you medically qualified? I had lajor | :59:24. | :59:24. | |
heart attack. Apologies for the lack of stbtitles | :59:25. | :00:54. | |
due to loss of sound. Conference, Debbie Abrahams. | :00:55. | :01:19. | |
Conference, I hope you enjoxed that video as much as I did. We `ctually | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
went to see the film on Sattrday. It is so moving. If I could just, at | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
this moment, bank Ken Loach and the production team for allowing us to | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
show that trailer. -- bank. Conference, it is a real honour to | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
stand here before you as thd party spokesperson for work and pdnsions. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
My first time on the conferdnce platform. | :01:45. | :01:45. | |
APPLAUSE We live in troubling times. Our | :01:46. | :01:59. | |
problem is often seem insurmountable. When I am f`ced with | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
complexity and difficulty is, I recall wise words. The more, catered | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
something is, the more important it is to define what the simpld truths | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
are. What am I? I am a soci`list. I believe that society if it hs | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
stronger can achieve more when standing together and every citizen | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
has an equal stake in the ftture. It is, to me, a simple truths that a | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
nation aspiring to decency `nd fairness does not punish thd | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
disabled and disadvantaged. It is a simple truths of the wave the | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Government priorities finances to defend itself. When this Tory | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
government imposes attacks on disabled people and gives t`x breaks | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
to billionaires, their priorities are laid bare. It is, to me, the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
simple truth that where the dignity of rewarding work is deprivdd to | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
millions through a lack of puality jobs, the rise in zero our contracts | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
and indignities heaped on workforces by the likes of Sports Direct and | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
BHF, and social and economic progress is stunted. It is the | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
simple truth that targeting the most vulnerable in society damagds the | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
least vulnerable. If you have not already read the Richard Wilkinson, | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
Kate Pickett book, please do. It is called The Spirit Level, and it is | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
well worth a read. It shows there is a higher level of infants mortality, | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
lower life expectancy and ldss social mobility. There is shmple | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
truth that evidence -based policy must replace policy -based dvidence. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
That is why a socialist. All evidence points to another simple | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
truth, by building a societx where the hope of progress is gentine and | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
realistic and not forlorn, where every citizen feels to be an equal | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
participant in our nation and the Government is seen to be working for | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
everyone to create gross, stability and contentment. For all thd warm | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
words of the Prime Minister, it is by her actions we shall judge her | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
foot and she has been a senhor member of government which has | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
chosen to visit austerity on the most vulnerable in society. She has | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
been a senior member in a government that continues to rain down on the | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
education system, ideologic`l reforms with little or no | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
justification. She has been a senior member of government, whethdr number | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
of food banks increased tenfold in four years. Conference, inepuality | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
is not inevitable. We are hdre because we know that change is | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
possible and necessary. There are nearly 4 million children lhving in | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
poverty. Children's charitids are estimating that by 2020, th`t will | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
increase to 5 million. Confdrence, children being in poverty affects | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
not just childhood but the whole picture life chances. The 5 million | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
disabled people living in poverty now, because of extra costs | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
associated with their disabhlity, that is set to increase as ht was | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
the raft of more cuts. Women and the lowest paid remain at high risk of | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
falling into poverty in thehr retirement. This injustice hs being | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
extended to 2.6 million womdn born in the 1950s who have been | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
short-changed by this government, bringing forward the state | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
retirement age. I want to ensure dignity in retirement. Being | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
thankful for the contribution these people have made and continte to | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
make in our society. Conferdnce this government has fostered an | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
insidious culture of fear and blame to justify their programme of cuts. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Deliberately attempting to vilify Social Security claimants as the new | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
undeserving poor. I wanted to show that trailer from Ken Loach because | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
I think it epitomises what hs wrong with the current Social Sectrity | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
system. I believe there is ` better way, as there are away. One where | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Britain is the centre of a new industrial revolution, with | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
industries and technologies as diverse as our people. We nded to | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
invest in our greatest asset, our citizens are nurturing a skhlled | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
workforce and rebuilding thd country. For too long, the Labour | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
market has been dominated bx poor quality jobs, resulting in two | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
thirds of children living in poverty. For in every five people | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
working in low paid jobs now will be stuck in low-paid jobs in tdn years' | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
time. For those unable to work through illness or disability, we | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
need to transform our Social Security system to one which is | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
sufficient, responsive, and provides basic support. Time and agahn, I | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
hear how worthless the systdm makes people feel, even dehumanisdd. For | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
the blast majority people who have paid into it all their workhng | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
lives, this is like a slap hn the face. People feel desperate and have | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
been left destitute and havd even died. I want to change the culture | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
of our security system and how the public sees it. Like the NHS, it is | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
based on the principle of inclusion, support and security for all, | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
assuring us all of our dignhty and the basics of life will be to fall | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
on hard times or become incapacitated. Giving us a hand up | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
and not a hand-out. Work should with pay more than being on soci`l - | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
Social Security. Being in work should not mean living in social | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
poverty and neither should Social Security. The Labour Party has | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
already pledged to get rid of the discriminatory and unfair btrden | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
tax. I want to go further. H want to scrap the discredited work | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
capability assessment and rdplace it with a system... | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
APPLAUSE I will say that again. I want to | :08:23. | :08:39. | |
replace this with a system based on holistic support, one which provides | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
each individual with a tailored plan, with the skills, health, care | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
and transport related. The Government pass map unit of | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
sanctions system must go as well. Job centre plus performance will not | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
just be assessed on how mondy people they get off their books. I want to | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
see disabled people better supported into that work. We will halve the | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
disability employment gap. When we say it, we mean it. We will attack | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
other -- tackle other Labour markets as well. I believe in a fair and | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
just Britain, one where everyone can get on no one is left behind. Labour | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
pulse map policies will delhver prosperity drawl and tackle | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
inequalities in Britain. -- Labour's policies will deliver prospdrity for | :09:33. | :09:33. | |
all. I thank you. Thank you, Debbie. We will now take | :09:34. | :09:52. | |
short item on the workplace 202 and I would like to invite Ian Lavery to | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
address the conference. Colleagues, conference, it hs an | :09:56. | :10:10. | |
absolute privilege to address you here in Liverpool. It is a city with | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
proud Labour and train union traditions. It has a great `nd rich | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
diverse history. It is a city that knows, through its own, painful | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
experiences, what devastation a Conservative government can wreak on | :10:31. | :10:40. | |
its own citizens. Astonishingly incredibly, the Tories are claiming | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
to be the party of working people. They claim to represent comlunities | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
like those here in Liverpool, like those in my native North East, in | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
working villages, towns, and regions across Britain. Comrades, | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
conference, what a call on this is! It is a message we need to get out | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
to everyone in our communithes, this -- the Tories destroyed comlunities | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
that do not support hard-working people. Comrades here in Liverpool | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
and back home in the north-dast right across the country, wd can | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
remember what the Tories did the last time round. We can see what | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
they are looking to do now `nd how they are treating whole swathes of | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
society now. My own history is scarred by the implant of a | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
Conservative government. I come from a town in the north-east, a | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
coalfield in the north-east, built on coal and built around thd pit. | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
Built around the colliery. H joined the miners' strike as a young man, | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
saw the power of government being wielded unceremoniously agahnst its | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
citizens. That changed my lhfe. It left an indelible mark on md as an | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
individual, on my family and on my colleagues and friends. What year it | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
was! It showed the best qualities of men and women in our communhties, | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
the way we banded together for the cause of justice and equality. It | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
also taught me one very important thing. That is, never, ever, trust a | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
Conservative government with the lives of working people. | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
Colleagues... 30 years later, and the Conservatives are back hn power | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
again. They are talking tough on society's ills. In the Government, | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
many people not only do not have employment rights that they feel | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
lucky to get any scrap of elployment or any scrap of work offer. They are | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
expected to accept the crumbs from the table whilst employers `nd | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
shareholders feast on vast profits. 6 million people earn less than the | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
living wage. Young people are stuck at home, unable to live | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
independently, because they do not have a clue when they will be able | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
to work, how much they will earn from week to week. They do not have | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
enough to pay the bills. Allost a million people are now employed on | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
zero our contracts. Whilst the Tories turn the fire on the trade | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
unions, the unscrupulous business practices, such as those revealed at | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
Sports Direct and BHF, have gone unchecked. Colleagues, confdrence, | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
the rotten Sports Direct model of employment must be banished into | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
history. That is something which the party must do immediately. | :13:59. | :14:08. | |
Colleagues, the trade union act received Royal assent on thd 4th of | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
May. It is undoubtedly the lost pernicious legislation passdd before | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
the Commons. It further shrhnks working people's rights in ` country | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
already described as the most restrictive in the Western world. I | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
want to give you a warning. We didn't win entirely with thd trade | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
union Bill. And the Tories will be back to try and implement those | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
concessions they gave at th`t time. We need to be aware at all times | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
that they will be looking to implement some of the worst part of | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
the bill, which they gave concessions at this time. Comrades, | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
what is the Labour Party response? The Labour Party response is | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
workplace 2020. It is a vishon of the future. We want everyond to be | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
part of this. We are working very closely with the trade unions. It | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
will be the biggest discusshon with working people and employers in a | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
generation. It underlines how serious we are about creating | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
workplaces fit for the future. Everyone has a story to tell in the | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
world of work and what it should look like in the future. Workplace | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
2020 is on about focusing on the negatives, it is about focusing on | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
the positives. Many people have positive experiences in the | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
workplace. Many people benefit from apprenticeships, training | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
opportunities, and addition`l support. We want to hear, as the | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
party, from working people, employers, about how we can promote | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
good practice and raise standards in the workplace. We will be travelling | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
around the UK to regions, local communities, because we want to hear | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
at first hand, at grassroots level, what is happening in the workplace. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
We want to listen to people. We want to work with the trade unions, | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
employees and employers, to create an environment that is fair to all. | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Conference, we really need xour help in doing so. We need your hdlp to | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
set up meetings in the workplace, local community centres, pl`ces of | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
worship, the club at the pub, even your own backroom, if you fdel that | :16:31. | :16:31. | |
would be appropriate. You can hold a Workplace 2020 | :16:32. | :16:47. | |
discussion anywhere, even online, at www.Workplace2020.org.uk. I want you | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
to tell the Labour Party Zachary would you think the future of work | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
should look like. If you go to the Labour Party stand after thd | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
conference session you can pick up the campaign pack and get the | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
leaflet that tells you much more about how to get involved. | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
Colleagues, the Labour and trade union movement is best when we work | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
together. It's best when we are all united. And this is an opportunity | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
to embody the spirit that generations of men and women who | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
have gone before, the great pioneers of our great movement, who have | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
transformed society. We want to learn from the past to build the | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
future. The old adage proudly displayed on many banners rdmains | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
extremely relevant today. Agitate, educate, organise. The parts we | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
inherit the future we build. Colleagues, conference, togdther we | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
can change the world of work. You can be part of that, let's get to | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
work now. Thank you. Thank you, Ian. Conference, I would | :17:56. | :18:21. | |
now like to welcome Jacquelhne Thomas, community union deldgate and | :18:22. | :18:22. | |
a steelworker. Conference, my name is Jacqteline | :18:23. | :18:40. | |
Thomas and I am vice presiddnt of community the trade union, H'm proud | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
steelworker, proud feminist and proud trading it and proud | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
counsellor. I work in South Wales. And Tredegar has done many great | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
things including giving of Nye Bevan, who in turn gave us the NHS. | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
Yet many people from Tredeg`r now live in great poverty. This is | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
because at one time we had over 14,500 people who worked across our | :19:12. | :19:24. | |
valley at the ever fail stedlworks. -- Ebbw Vale still wet. Manx of the | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
local firms provide contracts to the steelworkers closed and as ` result | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
the economy in the whole arda suffered. Now 14 years later Port | :19:36. | :19:49. | |
Talbot faces the same fate. If they close as well the deprivation that | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
exists in Blaenau Gwent will turn into destitution across the South | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Wales valleys. 62% of the pdople living in Blaenau Gwent votdd to | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
leave despite receiving over ?4 million in EU investment. They voted | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
that way because they want to take back control. They believe the | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
myths, yes, but they were thred of the way the economy was working for | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
them. The funding has been welcome in providing new apprenticeships and | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
transport links that there `re too few many jobs, no local economy and | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
no way for families to give out opportunities for their children. | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
And now the rest of the South Wales valleys are in the same fatd. My | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
family and my friends and so many others face the same hardshhp and | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
heartache. If this, stand b`ck and let industry fade away I drdad to | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
feel what is then to happen. The jobs that do exist in Blaen`u Gwent | :20:58. | :21:06. | |
are often poor, low paid and unsustainable and zero contracts. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
These steel jobs are good, secure, well-paid, because we have had a | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
hundred years of trade union organisation. That is why the | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
workplace 2020 is so import`nt to areas like mine. At work I `m proud | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
to be a trade unionist for community union, representing steelworkers and | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
I am proud to help the people at work standing up for health and | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
safety and for colleagues rhghts. Workplace 2020 seeks to strdngthen | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
the role of the trade union rights and fight against the Tory `ttacks | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
on employment rights. But wd can only win that fight if we are an | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
electable Labour Party. That reaches out across the country and beyond | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
our base. My local communitx needs a Labour government. My workplace | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
needs a Labour government. @nd, conference, more importantlx, I need | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
a Labour government. I am proud that the workplace 2020 is setting the | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
agenda for the Labour Party's policy and I hope we go on from here and | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
fight everyday to make sure we set the agenda for the whole of the | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
country and we don't see sale deprivation as I see in my hometown | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
now. Thank. APPLAUSE Thank you very much, Jacqueline I'm | :22:23. | :22:39. | |
now delighted to introduce ` guest Speaker, Scott Courtney, thdse | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
active vice president of thd service employees International union and | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
the inspiration behind the fight for $15 which is led towards more than | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
10 million low-paid workers see their wages double. It is now a | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
global movement, Scott, welcome to Labour Party conference. | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
Thank you very much, good afternoon brothers and sisters, it is truly an | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
honour for me to be here today, particularly to recognise the next | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Prime Minister of the UK, Jdremy Corbyn. APPLAUSE | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
Jamie and John McDonnell have been with us in this campaign since the | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
beginning days and I have to tell you what that means, but we will be | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
with them until the final d`ys. -- Jeromy and John. We are herd to talk | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
about the crisis facing workers around the world. In what wd are | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
trying to do about it in thd United States particularly with thd Fight | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
for $15. The little about mxself, I grew up in Springfield, Illhnois, | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
the home of Abraham Lincoln and Bart Simpson. It is a town about 300 km | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
to the south of Chicago, working-class town about 100,00 | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
people. When I grew up therd there were factories and a whole lot of | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
farms and what we learned about capitalism was a story that was told | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
through two cows. Have you heard this before? Good, it will be view. | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
What we learned was that in traditional capitalism you had two | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
cows, you sell one and by a bull and your herd modifies an econoly goes. | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
You work really hard on one day you sell off your herd and retire on the | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
income. That sound familiar? That is how captain is supposed to work | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
Since then I have learned that there are different versions of c`pitalism | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
depending on where you go. H'll give you the few examples. In Irdland you | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
have the same two cows, you sell one, you expect the other one to | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
produce the milk for cows and then you are surprised when it dhes. In | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
France you have two cows th`t you want three so you go on strhke. In | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
Germany you have two cows, but you re-engineer them said they live for | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
100 years, the once a month and they milk themselves. In Italy you have | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
two cows but you can't find them so you go to lunch. In Switzerland you | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
don't have two cows, you have 5 00 cows. None of them belong to you | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
that you charge outrageous fees to others for storing them. In Japan | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
you have two cows but you rddesign them so they are one tenth the size | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
and produced 20 times the mhlk. You then create clever cow cartoon | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
images and you market them `round the world. Here in Great Brhtain, | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
you have two cows but they're both mad. | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
I'm really glad you laughed. They didn't show me the way out. Let me | :26:05. | :26:14. | |
to how it works in the Unitdd States today. You take the same two cows, | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
you sell three of the publicly listed company. Then you exdcute the | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
debt equity swap Sega four cows back and attack is an ocean for graphics. | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
The milk rights of your sixth cows are then transferred to your Cayman | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
Islands company which sells the rights to seven cows back to your | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
company. The annual report says the company 's own age cows with an | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
optional more say you sell one account, you buy another prdsent in | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
States and the public buys xour bull. That is a little bit dramatic | :26:46. | :26:59. | |
but it is not a lot out of line with what is happening in the US. It is | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
important to note this kind of capitalism does not create ` single | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
job, doesn't drive up wages or create opportunities for workers. It | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
doesn't secure health care H guarantee a decent retirement or a | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
good education for their kids. All it does is further enrich the | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
already too rich, add to thd already overworked flowing covers of | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
corporations and deplete thd already shrinking tax base of the ptblic | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
sector and yet to the date the powers that be are still buxing the | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
bull than the corporations `nd the wealthy are still buying thd bull | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
than the corporations and wdalthy nation in the us continue to make | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
policy decisions based on the premise that the well-being of | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
American workers depends on how much we cuddle corporate giants `nd | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
vegetable with tax cuts and lax regulations. Brothers and shsters, | :27:47. | :27:54. | |
the situation facing workers United states they die. We are loshng | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
ground all of the world but it didn't happen by accident. The | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
quality of living and working standards are not the result of | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
natural economic forces that are beyond our control. The restlt of | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
specific choices our nation has made to get there. And the end of the | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
data to make our economies work for workers what we really need to do is | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
change the choices we make, the choices are nations make and that is | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
what the fight for 15 games today. Yes the Fight for $15 is a lovement | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
to win raises in a union in the fast-food industry and in other | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
industries. To be sure we hope to win a victory at McDonald's because | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
that would have a ripple effect on jobs all across the economy. It | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
would spark a surge among workers wanting to achieve the same victory. | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
It would open the door to r`ising wages across a service economy. It | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
would be an historic win for all of us. Our air traffic controllers | :28:53. | :29:00. | |
moment. A chance to end the decline of workers that started when one of | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
Reagan fired the air traffic control workers Job much like Margaret | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
Thatcher went to war against the miners. Even beyond a victory at | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
McDonald's the Fight for $14 is a movement to fundamentally change our | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
choices and priorities as a nation. Our goal is to change the mhndset | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
that allows politicians to dole out favours for the corporations and the | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
rich at the expense of everxone else. To create an environmdnt in | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
which boosting the purchasing power of workers and consumers, not the | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
financial power of Wall Strdet, is the prevailing strategy for growing | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
the economy. To make it possible for all workers to unite in collective | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
action, to form unions and negotiate for their fair share of the | :29:46. | :29:48. | |
productivity and the wealth that they create. And ultimately to make | :29:49. | :29:56. | |
our nation choose prosperitx and our posterity as a path to a better | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
future and the carnival we want to live in. You don't have to go very | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
far back into the past to sde how things were different in thd United | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
States. Back in spring fed when I was growing up in the 1970s it was | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
still a place where you could get a decent job -- Springfield. Xou had | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
health care, you had a penshon, you could even take a vacation. | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
Eventually you have enough to retire on. No one was rich, none of us own | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
fancy beach houses but workdrs at a union and the American dreal meant | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
you could live a better lifd than your parents and you could dxpect | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
your kids would live a bettdr life than you. | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
Powerful companies and right-wing groups in Washington started to get | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
worried. I am not making thhs up. There are memos from Lewis Powell, | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
who served on the United St`tes Supreme Court. They were worried and | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
scared that the free enterprise system in the United States was at | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
risk and we were getting too close to communism. Imagine that hn the | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
United States of America! So, they came up with schemes to manhpulate | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
the relatively fair system we had in the US at the time by pushing three | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
strategies. They have done this consistently for 40 years. | :31:15. | :31:20. | |
Deregulation, the taxation, demineralisation. That becale the | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
solution for every problem. It eventually spread across thd world. | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
As I have listened today, I hear the same thing here in the UK. Hf you | :31:32. | :31:38. | |
have a budget deficit, you need to deregulate, D tax, D unionise will | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
do if you have a budget surplus it is the same answer. If you have a | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
toothache get rid of the unhons get rid of regulations, and you will | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
feel better. APPLAUSE | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
After four decades of those choices, America is a much different place. | :31:57. | :32:03. | |
Today 64 million Americans lake less than $16 an hour. That is 46% of all | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
workers in the United States. Many tell you what that means. Today the | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
minimum wage in the United States is ?7 25. Working 40 hours a wdek that | :32:13. | :32:22. | |
is 600 bucks a week. You will take home about $1900 for the avdrage | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
cost of a two-bedroom apartlent in the United States is $1100 ` month. | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
You don't have to be a financial wizard to figure out you barely have | :32:32. | :32:37. | |
enough on $15 to pay food, pay for your lights, pay for your hdat, get | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
yourself to work, and paper your rent. That is all it pays for. No | :32:42. | :32:47. | |
luxury. Today in the United States, 64 million workers don't make that. | :32:48. | :32:55. | |
100 million workers in the Tnited States are or near poverty. Tonight, | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
in the United States of America one in five kids will go to bed hungry. | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
We have a completely differdnt type of economy today for that you can | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
see in many industries that once gave people a real shot at the | :33:06. | :33:09. | |
middle-class, if you look at airports and it used to be hf you | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
worked in an airport you work for one of the two or three airlines in | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
the US, no matter if you ard selling tickets or taking tickets wdre | :33:17. | :33:19. | |
driving the aeroplane or serving drinks on the plane. Instead of | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
working for the three or fotr airlines, today you work for a | :33:24. | :33:31. | |
contract of a contractor of a contractor of the airline. Xour | :33:32. | :33:33. | |
four, five, six steps removdd from the real boss and where the real | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
money is. Those jobs in 1974 on the airports, where there was a Grecian | :33:38. | :33:45. | |
wage, -- a decent wage ( and is today they make $7 an hour. It is | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
worse than that in airports. If you push the wheelchair around, you re | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
not allowed to ask for a tip but you are allowed to accept them for the | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
because that you are only p`id to bucks an hour. That is a fact. That | :34:00. | :34:06. | |
is what is like in the US where people had these jobs. Truck | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
drivers, the same story. Virtually every truck driver in the United | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
States was in the Teamsters union. They were not rich, it was hard | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
work. They had a decent lifd. They could make a fair weight. They hoped | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
if they played by the rules, they could get their kids into school and | :34:24. | :34:30. | |
their kid could live a bettdr life. Almost no truck drivers in the | :34:31. | :34:33. | |
United States are in that union today but this did not happdn by | :34:34. | :34:37. | |
accident or that it did not happen because we lacked money. It did not | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
happen because it was a false choice. These are choices and | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
priorities our country made. Last year, to give you a few exalples of | :34:45. | :34:50. | |
some of our choices, last ydar, the money given out in Wall Strdet | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
bonuses, not pay, bonuses, ht was more than the total earnings of | :34:56. | :34:58. | |
every American making the mhnimum wage. That is a choice. Tod`y, | :34:59. | :35:08. | |
corporate profits make it the largest ever share of the United | :35:09. | :35:11. | |
States economy and wages make up the lowest share. That is a chohce. | :35:12. | :35:13. | |
Today, the pay of the average fast food CEO is more than 1200 times the | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
average fast food workers. That is also a choice. Corporations like | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
McDonald's pay so little thdir workers are forced to rely on food | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
stamps and other public asshstance at the expense of taxpayers. | :35:29. | :35:35. | |
Choices. Their low wage, zero hour the high turnover business lodel | :35:36. | :35:41. | |
hurts everyone. Their workers, competitors, suppliers, govdrnments, | :35:42. | :35:44. | |
consumers, and others across the globe. This company operates in 190 | :35:45. | :35:51. | |
companies in six continents. 2 million workers. They get a lot of | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
benefits from being a big player. Huge profits. More advantagds and | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
special treatment. Sort of like here in the UK where McDonald's dxtracted | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
?43 million from the Governlent to subsidise apprenticeships, where | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
young workers are paid less than the minimum wage was that is also a | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
choice. Already in the US, `s a result of the fight for 15, the | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
world is changing. The political centre in the US has moved `nd wages | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
are going up all over the country. In 2012, Barack Obama was rd-elected | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
and we had the first strikes in New York City. 180 brave and cotrageous | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
fast food workers walked off their job. When the president was | :36:37. | :36:47. | |
re-elected, he wasn't yet for a $9 minimum wage. They had spent years | :36:48. | :36:55. | |
talking about budget cuts and austerities. Only two Democrats in | :36:56. | :37:02. | |
the entire country worked for eight $10 minimum wage was at that says | :37:03. | :37:09. | |
something. 2012, only two Ddmocrats. Since then we have had 12 strikes. | :37:10. | :37:17. | |
The strikes have expanded from 80 workers in New York City to workers | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
in 330 cities across the Unhted States. In the fight for 15, it has | :37:22. | :37:32. | |
exploded in a broad-based movement for childcare workers and ahrport | :37:33. | :37:39. | |
workers, professors and all kinds of workers joining in. It seems like | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
we're living in an entirely different world. Hillary Clhnton is | :37:44. | :37:47. | |
running for president and she supports $15 an hour. | :37:48. | :37:48. | |
APPLAUSE I have to tell you, it is h`rd to | :37:49. | :37:59. | |
tell where her opponents land on theirs. You guys have probably heard | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
of Donald Trump, the guy with the funny hair. He has taken several | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
positions. He started out in a debate in Milwaukee in Novelber same | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
wages are too high. Then he conceded later on, maybe they need to go up a | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
little bit. Then he said I could probably support something tp to | :38:19. | :38:22. | |
maybe $10 an hour. Listen, don't worry, if you can't keep up with | :38:23. | :38:26. | |
him, he'll probably have a different position tonight when you w`tch the | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
debate, though I hear it is at two o'clock in the morning, so H'm not | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
sure how many of us will be awake. $15 has been adopted as the platform | :38:36. | :38:39. | |
for the Democratic party. That is the law of the land in Seattle, San | :38:40. | :38:45. | |
Francisco, New York, Washington DC and other cities around the United | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
States. Major private sector employers are increasing minimum | :38:50. | :38:54. | |
wages to $15 an hour. The state of Oregon raised its minimum w`ge to | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
$14 75. I still cannot imaghne who we made mad to drop the extra | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
quarter. In Chicago, the picture of a centrist Democrat was the chief of | :39:07. | :39:13. | |
staff to President Obama for that he opposed $9 and 2012. He was running | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
free election last year as the mayor of Chicago. To get re-electdd he | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
supported the drive to get the minimum wage in that city to $1 an | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
hour. In one week alone, television, 10 million people in New York State | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
and California had a minimul wage rates to $15. All told, 20 lillion | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
since we began this campaign. We since we began this campaign. We | :39:37. | :39:47. | |
have also moved the debate. The Washington Post said $14 has | :39:48. | :39:54. | |
gone from Abbas certainly albitious to mainstream in the span of a few | :39:55. | :40:00. | |
years. Fast food workers have managed to rewire how the ptblic and | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
politicians think about wagds. Chris Hayes said, the fight for 14 has | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
entirely changed politics in our country. It is not even just the | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
Democrats. Jeb Bush said millions of our citizens across the middle class | :40:16. | :40:19. | |
feel as if the American dre`m is out of reach the playing field hs no | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
longer fair all level and to many of the poor have lost hope. I would say | :40:24. | :40:28. | |
the message is getting out. The public is also responding to the | :40:29. | :40:35. | |
workers demand for union rights A recent Gallup poll found 58$ of | :40:36. | :40:38. | |
Americans today support unions. That is the highest level in our country | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
in decades. The fight for 14 has also become a global movement. When | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
we had strikes in April, johning the workers from 330 American chties | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
were workers in 40 countries on six continents. We saw massive | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
demonstrations in Brazil, Asia, and across Europe. We have seen | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
victories with our friends `t Unite in New Zealand beating back the zero | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
hours contracts. In the UK, the fast food rights campaign is hophng ramp | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
up the global campaign that is taking on some of the largest | :41:14. | :41:16. | |
corporations in the world. Brothers and sisters, if there is ond, | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
overriding lesson we have ldarned, it is this. If you want people to | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
follow you, if you want thel to take bold action, you have to spdak to | :41:27. | :41:29. | |
the core of what matters most to them. We have to take a strong stand | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
for what is morally right. There is nothing to be gained by str`ddling | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
the centre or seeking middld ground. There is no point... | :41:40. | :41:47. | |
There is no point in trying to ride out the storm or blame upsetting the | :41:48. | :41:54. | |
apple cart. Let's be clear `bout this. If the fight for 15 h`d never | :41:55. | :41:59. | |
come to be, we would not be talking about a $15 an hour wage now. It is | :42:00. | :42:02. | |
not as though it would naturally become the right thing to do, or | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
economists were suddenly gohng to discover new research to support it. | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
To be honest, when we deciddd to put our full support behind the fight | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
for 15, people really thought we were crazy. Some thought it was too | :42:18. | :42:20. | |
much money. A whole bunch thought it was too much money. The verx idea | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
about the movement of money as opposed to justice, equalitx of | :42:26. | :42:29. | |
fairness, it was too crass. The situation is dire and we had to take | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
risks. We had to be willing to stand up to workers outside of our | :42:35. | :42:37. | |
traditional jurisdictions at a time when our own members were htrting. | :42:38. | :42:42. | |
We had to make an investment in taking on one of the largest | :42:43. | :42:46. | |
corporations on the planet with no guarantee of a return on th`t | :42:47. | :42:50. | |
investment. To be clear abott this, the fight for 15 was not an easy | :42:51. | :43:00. | |
decision. It was right, mor`lly politically and strategically. We | :43:01. | :43:02. | |
are doing what Labour is supposed to do, standing up and fighting for the | :43:03. | :43:14. | |
little guy. We have politichans We have politicians moving forward | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
towards us. A whole range of issues matter to our movement, likd | :43:21. | :43:22. | |
stopping police killings of black and brown people. And making sure | :43:23. | :43:32. | |
that no worker has to live hn the shadows. We are in a better | :43:33. | :43:44. | |
position. What is at stake hs a better life for our kids and | :43:45. | :43:47. | |
grandkids. What kind of world we want to leave them. What we do does | :43:48. | :43:53. | |
matter. Together we can change the world. Thank you. | :43:54. | :44:33. | |
Thank you so much for that. You have our very best wishes and good luck | :44:34. | :44:41. | |
for the rest of the campaign. Thank you very much for sharing your | :44:42. | :44:42. | |
story. We have one final speaker for today | :44:43. | :45:00. | |
I always get emotional about this part of conference. The road back to | :45:01. | :45:11. | |
government is a long one. No more so than the one faced by our mdmbers in | :45:12. | :45:18. | |
Scottish Labour. Those are the comrades facing the coal face. The | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
UK party has a lot to learn from these people. They are not just | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
fighting against a Tory govdrnment that wants to divide us by class. | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
They are fighting against nationalists who want to divide us | :45:32. | :45:32. | |
by place. It is not always that easy to | :45:33. | :45:47. | |
campaign in parts of Scotland as geography often works against us. | :45:48. | :45:57. | |
The Scottish Parliamentary results were a crushing blow for thd | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
Scottish Labour Party. They were not reflective of the efforts that those | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
members put into that campahgn. They were not reflective of the puiet | :46:07. | :46:09. | |
determination of the person who lead them. Our leader with a 72% mandate | :46:10. | :46:19. | |
by her members. What Kezia Dugdale does every single day is focused on | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
the issues that matter to the people of Scotland. Unlike her opponents in | :46:25. | :46:31. | |
the SNP. She is a strong vohce for Labour in Holyrood. She has nerves | :46:32. | :46:38. | |
of steel. If you pass the NDC's recommended role changes tolorrow, | :46:39. | :46:41. | |
as I very much hope you will, I know she will be a strong voice for | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
Scottish Labour on our national Executive committee as well. Kezia | :46:47. | :46:48. | |
Dugdale. Afternoon, conference. I have to say | :46:49. | :47:08. | |
to you, last time I was campaigning with Joanna Baxter, it was hn Aaron. | :47:09. | :47:22. | |
She had tripped and fallen `nd had a sore leg. She campaigned all day | :47:23. | :47:27. | |
with a broken leg and the ndxt day it was put in a cast. Let's hear it | :47:28. | :47:40. | |
poured Joanna Baxter. Conference, it is great to be here in Liverpool go | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
in a city with Labour MPs, ` Labour Council and a Labour man. I'm hoping | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
that next year we can celebrate when this city as the first Metro Mayor | :47:51. | :47:59. | |
for Liverpool. Conference, we meet here in Liverpool, united in our | :48:00. | :48:03. | |
determination to make Labour Party of government wants a game. I | :48:04. | :48:07. | |
congratulate Jeremy Corbyn on his victory in the judicial election and | :48:08. | :48:10. | |
I look forward to continuing our work together. | :48:11. | :48:18. | |
Together we will unite our party in Scotland and across the United | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
Kingdom. We will deliver thd change we all want to see. Next ye`r we | :48:25. | :48:30. | |
face elections across the United Kingdom where Labour candid`tes in | :48:31. | :48:35. | |
Scotland, England and Wales will be standing to protect our loc`l | :48:36. | :48:38. | |
services. The elections in Dngland also mark a new stage in devolution | :48:39. | :48:43. | |
for the United Kingdom. It hs long overdue and should not just be the | :48:44. | :48:46. | |
start of a new chapter for the United Kingdom but for the Labour | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
Party. For too long, our politics and our party has been dominated by | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
what happens in the corner of the city of Westminster. Politics | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
happens everywhere. Not just on the green benches of the House of | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
Commons it happens in town halls throughout street corners, | :49:05. | :49:05. | |
doorsteps, and online. We saw that on both sides of the | :49:06. | :49:17. | |
Scottish referendum and EU referendum. It is a party for | :49:18. | :49:25. | |
working people. And for this new age of devolution the mission should be | :49:26. | :49:30. | |
to build our party in every Parliament, National Assembly and | :49:31. | :49:40. | |
Town Hall, in every area of Britain. The route to victory for thd next | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
Labour government will not just run through Westminster but start with | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
success in Edinburgh, Cardiff and the great English cities like | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
Liverpool and Manchester. Wd will only succeed when we connect to | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
every community in the country and never forget that we should be | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
guided by the views and voices of the people we seek to represent In | :50:03. | :50:09. | |
just two at how short years politics in Scotland has been turbo-charged, | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
the European election, the Scottish referendum, UK general election | :50:16. | :50:20. | |
Scottish Parliament referendum and EU referendum, are members have been | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
asked to campaign hard and lake the argument for our politics | :50:26. | :50:28. | |
repeatedly. They have gone out into their communities to make the case | :50:29. | :50:31. | |
for labour and in recent wedks they have one. Just last week I | :50:32. | :50:39. | |
campaigned with our activists in electing the newest councillor Alex | :50:40. | :50:44. | |
McVeigh in a game for Labour from the SNP. When people said the | :50:45. | :50:55. | |
Scottish Labour Party cannot win elections, I say look to our | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
victories around the countrx this summer. Together let us all show our | :51:01. | :51:06. | |
gratitude to the Scottish L`bour activists who have put in a shift | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
over the past two and half xears and made the case for our polithcs and | :51:11. | :51:16. | |
kept alive the vision of a fairer Scotland under Labour. | :51:17. | :51:27. | |
We put a bold and radical plan for government to people across Scotland | :51:28. | :51:34. | |
in the month of May. I was criticised for even suggesthng that | :51:35. | :51:37. | |
Scottish Labour could have ` chance of power. The Tories gave up at the | :51:38. | :51:45. | |
first hurdle. And they chosd to run a campaign for opposition instead. | :51:46. | :51:49. | |
And what a campaign it was. They promised to stand up for thd union, | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
just months after pushing through English votes for English l`ws. They | :51:56. | :51:58. | |
created two classes of MP for the first time. And all this just one | :51:59. | :52:06. | |
year after running a general election campaign that sought to | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
divide the Scots and English. In the very worst type of constitutional | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
vandalism. And then Ruth Davidson missed a strong economy with a Tory | :52:17. | :52:23. | |
government in Westminster and her party put it all at risk with the EU | :52:24. | :52:27. | |
referendum. Now she expects us to look on the bright side, telling us | :52:28. | :52:32. | |
they may be benefits to Brexit. And she did what Scotland could scarcely | :52:33. | :52:38. | |
afford, she used the same dhvide and rule politics of David Cameron to | :52:39. | :52:41. | |
reopen those divisions betwden yes and no. Do not lead Ruth Davidson | :52:42. | :52:48. | |
ever again tell you the union is safe in Tory hands. | :52:49. | :53:03. | |
We did not want to rerun thd arguments of the past. We w`nted to | :53:04. | :53:07. | |
put Scotland's future first. Our belief in this election was clear, | :53:08. | :53:15. | |
to make public service funddd, people need to pay their fahr share. | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
It is an idea rooted in the simple socialist principle, from e`ch | :53:21. | :53:23. | |
according to his ability, to each according to his needs. We put | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
forward a case for progresshve taxation, a penny on income tax and | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
50p tax rate for the most wdll. It is still our policy because with the | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
cuts coming down the track, local government in Scotland is sdt to | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
lose ?1 billion over the cotrse of this Parliament. Our health service | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
is already showing signs of strain as hospitals face cuts or closure. | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
In hospitals in Glasgow, pahnfully as Greenock, services for children, | :53:57. | :54:00. | |
pregnant women and the elderly, are being cut back. When it comds to | :54:01. | :54:05. | |
schools, the Assembly Government continues to refuse to protdct the | :54:06. | :54:11. | |
education budget. I accept what Nicola Sturgeon says about the cuts | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
coming from Westminster, I do not question that. What I questhon its | :54:16. | :54:22. | |
refusal to do anything about it Toonie KeePass on those cuts or even | :54:23. | :54:25. | |
double down on them. Leadership does not mean marching to London to make | :54:26. | :54:31. | |
your point but refusing to take the tough decisions when you ard at | :54:32. | :54:33. | |
home. It does not mean blamhng someone else for your probldms. And | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
it certainly does not mean demanding power and then refusing to `ct. | :54:39. | :54:49. | |
Nicola Sturgeon is the most powerful first ministers Scotland has had. In | :54:50. | :54:57. | |
her hands she has more power than any of of her predecessors to change | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
our nation. But for a woman who is famous for saying yes, her `nswer | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
when you ask her to use the power she has is always no. I'm only | :55:08. | :55:14. | |
asking Nicola Sturgeon to do what she said she has wanted to do her | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
entire political life, make different choices from the Tories, | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
Labour will not sit back and do nothing and that is why tod`y I can | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
announce when the Scottish Government presents a budget to | :55:28. | :55:29. | |
Parliament in the coming months we will place amendments to introduce a | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
50p tax on those earning ovdr ?150,000 and add a penny to income | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
tax to pay for public services. Making decisions for Scotland but | :55:40. | :55:42. | |
the Tories would never make and using the powers which we h`ve | :55:43. | :55:49. | |
argued for. This together whth other tax proposals will enable us to stop | :55:50. | :55:51. | |
further cuts to the public services that we all rely on. With a full | :55:52. | :55:57. | |
range of powers the Scottish Parliament has, the SNP govdrnment | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
faces a clear choice. Accept the Tory budget from Westminster or go | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
our own way. With proposals to grow the Scottish economy, protect | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
schools and hospitals. More and more cuts to the Scottish budget, it | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
harms the growth of our country and risks jobs and the prospects for | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
young people. We need to invest to provide the next generation the | :56:22. | :56:27. | |
chances they need to succeed. If the SNP minority government does not | :56:28. | :56:30. | |
accept these proposals and forces and other austerity budget, we will | :56:31. | :56:37. | |
vote against it. If they want support, they will need to look to | :56:38. | :56:40. | |
the Tories for that. Labour will not help the SNP pass an austerhty | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
budget on our watch. Labour fought for devolution in the | :56:45. | :57:00. | |
first place, so Scotland cotld set its own direction inside thd UK And | :57:01. | :57:06. | |
with Labour, we won the Scottish Government to be a force for change | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
in our land. That is what L`bour governments do, when they'rd at | :57:12. | :57:17. | |
their boldest best. We keep our eyes fixed on the future, we embrace | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
modern ideas that lead to ndw jobs and invest in new technologx and | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
keep our country at the leading edge. In 1945 the government of | :57:26. | :57:32. | |
Clement Attlee said let's f`ce the future and on the day Donald Dewar | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
over the Scottish Parliament he said that place was a voice to shape | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
Scotland, a voice for the ftture. He was right. So many of the greatest | :57:42. | :57:45. | |
achievements of this countrx have been because of Labour governments | :57:46. | :57:48. | |
and we should be proud of them. They need to inspire us, drivers forward. | :57:49. | :57:54. | |
That means having answers to the challenges of the future and | :57:55. | :57:57. | |
responding to the changes in our economy. But today the Scottish | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
Parliament debating Chamber is more likely to be alive with deb`tes | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
about the constitution than with ideas that will shape the 20st | :58:07. | :58:12. | |
century. It frustrates and `ngers me that the SNP government closed | :58:13. | :58:18. | |
itself from progressive language, it did not match it with action. They | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
said we would abolish counchl tax and replace it with a fairer system, | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
then they got cold feet. In 201 Nicola Sturgeon said she supported a | :58:29. | :58:32. | |
50p tax rate and a year latdr when she had the chance to do it in | :58:33. | :58:39. | |
Scotland, she did a U-turn. All of this time passing on Tory btdgets | :58:40. | :58:42. | |
and then doubling the cuts when they are passed on to our communhties. Do | :58:43. | :58:47. | |
not be fooled. Do not allow the will to be pulled over your eyes. A party | :58:48. | :58:52. | |
of the left does not choose to do nothing in the face of rising | :58:53. | :58:56. | |
inequality. It does not makd decisions that deny college places | :58:57. | :58:59. | |
and opportunities to working class people. It does not say it will | :59:00. | :59:04. | |
protect services before the election and then stand back when thdy are | :59:05. | :59:09. | |
threatened with closure soon after. Here is what a progressive | :59:10. | :59:12. | |
government will do, it will ask the witches to pay their fair share so | :59:13. | :59:17. | |
we can protect public services and invest in our children's future | :59:18. | :59:29. | |
I do not doubt Nicola Sturgdon's passion for our country. But when | :59:30. | :59:36. | |
the choice is presented between independence or progress, she will | :59:37. | :59:42. | |
always choose independence. Here is what she said just a week ago. | :59:43. | :59:49. | |
Independence transcends the shoes of Brexit, of all, of national wealth | :59:50. | :59:52. | |
and balance sheet. Can you believe it is too Socialist, knows xou need | :59:53. | :59:59. | |
an economic strategy to match the politics but in the face of a ? 0 | :00:00. | :00:05. | |
billion hole in our Public `ccounts, a gap that would mean savagd cuts to | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
public services, Nicola Sturgeon only has one answer for top | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
nationalism. That is not progressive, th`t is | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
blind faith. In the course of the last two years, independencd has | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
gone from being the remedy to all of Scotland's problems to being a less | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
risky option. The lead at Westminster now says that the | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
downside of independence has to be acknowledged and their only member | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
of the Commons Treasury comlittee says that independence would mean | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
five years of cuts to get the Scottish but it back into lhne. In | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
the rush to find a way throtgh Brexit, Nicola Sturgeon has been | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
forced to face both ways, to simply use -- to please supporters and | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
steer the country through a tough time but she needs to get b`ck to | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
those bread and butter issuds. Scotland faces enough risk `nd | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
uncertainty about the reckldss gamble from the Tories. We do not | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
need the risk and uncertainty of another independence referendum and | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
that is why we will vote ag`inst any proposal for a second indepdndence | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
reference in this Parliament. CROWD CLAPPING | :01:14. | :01:27. | |
As we faced negotiations to the future of our public servicd, we | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
cannot afford the Government to take the ion the ball. With so m`ny | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
challenges facing Scotland hn the future, we should not return to the | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
divisions of the past, my mdssage to Nicola Sturgeon is this. First | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Minister, our country is re`dy divided enough. Do not divide us | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
again. -- already divided enough. Conference, I'm an optimist, the | :01:46. | :02:03. | |
past few years may have tested my optimism but I believe in otr people | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
and in our Labour politics, we have weather testing times beford, both | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
as a country and as a party. It s because I'm an optimist that I | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
believe we can be better. Politics in Scotland is full of life, but it | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
is also polarised. Our country is divided in a way we can scarcely | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
afford, the challenge to us is to show our optimistic politics can | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
again change the lives of working people across our country. That we | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
can face the future with hope and spell out the real change wd want to | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
see in people's lives and wd can be movements, a party and government | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
again which puts our values into practice. By the strength of our | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
common endeavour, we achievd more than we achieve alone. It is not an | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
empty promise. It's a guide for building a better nation. Conference | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
here in Liverpool, let us rdsolve to unite our values, to rediscover our | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
radical roots and be again what so many people in Scotland and across | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Britain wants us to be, the greatest fighting force for progress that | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
this country has ever known. Thank you. | :03:18. | :03:47. | |
Thank you so much. Now we are going to take the vote on the economic | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
debate before everybody rushes out of the room. Can I firstly take the | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
contemporary one unemployment 's rights moved, can I see all of those | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
in favour. And any against? That carried. | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
Next the contemporary concert two, employment rights, can see `ll those | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
in favour? And those against? That's carried. Next contemporary con side | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
three unemployment 's right move by the TSA, can see all those hn | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
favour? And those against? That s carried. Contemporary com shte for | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
on industrial strategy moved by Unite, can I see all of those in | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
favour? And those against? That s carried. And next, contemporary com | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
site five on defend and prolote our public services moved by Unhson can | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
see all those in favour? And those against? That's carried. Next | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
contemporary com site six on defend and promote our public servhces move | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
by Aslef, can see in favour? And those against? That's carridd. Next | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
the economy policy commission annual report, can I see all those in | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
favour? And those against? That s carried. And finally the economy | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
parities issued documents, can see all those in favour? And those | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
against? That's also carried. The conference will now adjourn to | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
reconvene in the policy semhnars and our next recession is at 9:30am | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
tomorrow, thank you so much conference. | :05:56. | :06:05. |