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Here in the north: It's 75 years since this - the original Jarrow | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
march. This weekend a new generation have set out to recreate | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
that 300 mile walk to London. What can they hope to achieve? We'll be | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
asking a teenager whose great grandfather was on the original | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2150 seconds | :00:54. | :36:44. | |
A very warm a welcome to you. This weekend, 75 years on from the | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
historic Jarrow crusade, aim other marches on its way to London. | :36:48. | :36:55. | |
Unemployed people laughed at Southtown side -- left the South | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
Tyneside to protest regeneration of unemployed people. Will be catching | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
up with the marchers, but first we will speak to some of those people | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
taking part, including one at a teenager whose great grandfather | :37:08. | :37:13. | |
was on the original March. It is an unremarkable part of | :37:13. | :37:20. | |
Jarrow. Right he will find a bit of history. This is a modern chemical | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
works, back in 1936 it was a shipyard. Jarrow was already | :37:24. | :37:31. | |
suffering from huge unemployment, that shipyard being cut seemed a | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
blow could not recover from. It inspired a determination to send a | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
message to central government. October 1936, 200 people from | :37:42. | :37:48. | |
Jarrow started a march to London in a protest against unemployment. 75 | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
years on, people from that this area are following in their | :37:51. | :38:01. | |
footsteps. It is very personal Paul one of this year's marches. Lizi | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
Gray is a student, but her great grandfather was one of the which 0 | :38:06. | :38:13. | |
Jarrow march us. It is amazing that he took the initiative to March. | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
There was that much of poverty and disease. How could you stand by and | :38:20. | :38:29. | |
take it? You are not unemployed? am not in any kind of work. I would | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
like to have self-sufficiency. It is not looking that like -- it was | :38:34. | :38:42. | |
not looking like that is possible. This girl is also backing for the | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
march. She has been unemployed for two years. I apply for jobs every | :38:47. | :38:53. | |
week, I do not even get a response. Even for jobs that I have | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
experience for. I have been told are not in been shortlisted. You | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
can tell yourself it is the economic climate, but you feel | :39:02. | :39:09. | |
worthless. Daniel is travelling to the march from his home in Carlisle, | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
a graduate, he still cannot find a job. I have been looking for jobs. | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
It is not just any, there are fortify graduates chasing every | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
vacancy. People like me could become a lost generation without | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
prospects. Is there any comparison between the world of the original | :39:31. | :39:41. | |
marchers, and modern day Jarrow forced -- modern-day Jarrow? Some | :39:41. | :39:48. | |
local politicians have dismissed this new March. This is a political | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
stunt. It is not as bad now than it was then. There are problems at the | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
moment. These problems were caused by the previous a Labour government, | :39:57. | :40:05. | |
they just spent all the money. of people unemployed in the | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
original March. Nobody had anything. We live in a society where you | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
could be living next to your neighbour who has all the material | :40:13. | :40:19. | |
benefits. Unemployment is a little bit more difficult now. | :40:19. | :40:25. | |
75 years on, a new generation are heading to London. Paul Lizi Gray, | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
a question, what would her great grandfather had made a bit? | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
would have wanted to do something - - I think he would have wanted to | :40:35. | :40:41. | |
do something. It would have been horrible for him to know that | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
people are still having to make this kind of statement. He would | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
have thought that would change. The modern-day marches. They wish | :40:51. | :40:58. | |
to badly last night, they should be at Durham but by the end of the day | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
in. Our reporter joins us from Chester-le-Street. | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
We are expecting them to come past at this point in one hour. They | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
will be reaching Northallerton, Darlington, before going on to | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
cities like Nottingham and Birmingham. They are expected to | :41:16. | :41:21. | |
eventually reached Downing Street in five weeks' time. They will hand | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
over a petition calling for more jobs and training for young people. | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
If they are getting a lot of public support. There was a brass band | :41:29. | :41:35. | |
sent off, they have been getting a lot of free accommodation. With me | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
now is one of the organisers of the march. What has been the local | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
reaction? The local reaction has been incredibly good. We have had | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
500 people marching the bus yesterday in Jarrow. People were | :41:49. | :41:57. | |
lining the streets. The fact that trade union branches, church halls, | :41:57. | :42:07. | |
community centres, it shows the depth of support. We heard | :42:07. | :42:12. | |
criticism in our report. They are saying it is a stunt. We understand | :42:12. | :42:18. | |
that living standards are a lot better than in the 1930s, but there | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
are people unemployed, taxes on education, taxes on the public | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
sector, what this government are attending to do is turn the clock | :42:26. | :42:33. | |
back. But they are penalising working-class people. What we are | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
saying is that we do not want to return to the levels of | :42:36. | :42:42. | |
unemployment and poverty that the original marchers faced. Shouldn't | :42:42. | :42:48. | |
these young people be looking for work? They have been looking at the | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
work, the work is simply not up there at the moment. For every six | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
unemployed people there is just one vacancy. These are people who have | :42:58. | :43:03. | |
been trying to get work. They have been applying for God knows how | :43:03. | :43:09. | |
many jobs per week. We have the government rewarding bankers for | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
their mistakes, they caused the crisis, they are brewing at bail- | :43:13. | :43:23. | |
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out to them. -- throwing. A march organiser, possibly many blisters | :43:24. | :43:31. | |
their head. In the week that Labour called for | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
bankers bonuses, is the governor doing enough to help today's young | :43:34. | :43:40. | |
people? Joining the is Julie Elliott MP, and Councillor Wayne | :43:40. | :43:47. | |
Daley. Labour is not involved in this March, should they have been? | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
They would have helped if we had been asked. We were not asked. | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
There are many problems in the North East, youth unemployment has | :43:58. | :44:03. | |
gone up 15 %. Something has to be done. You think this is a | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
worthwhile protest? I have no problem with young people trying to | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
draw attention to problems that they are facing. They run a lot of | :44:11. | :44:18. | |
other things going on. They rise -- them is a lot of lobbying going on. | :44:18. | :44:25. | |
The impact that these policies are having on young people. You can see | :44:25. | :44:28. | |
why young people are angry, you have graduates are struggling to | :44:28. | :44:35. | |
get jobs in Tesco, other people trying to apply in getting nowhere. | :44:35. | :44:40. | |
I understand that. It is important to highlight issues. The government | :44:40. | :44:50. | |
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made a commitment to great 360 by the Prince's -- create 365,000 | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
apprenticeships. We want to talk about what we are doing to help | :44:54. | :45:02. | |
people find jobs. There has been a recession, the important thing to | :45:02. | :45:08. | |
remember is that even unemployment is a lot lower than in other | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
European countries. He in Spain 44 % of young people are now out of | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
work. That is not to say we should sit back and say we are better at | :45:17. | :45:24. | |
other places. I do not accept that. The government's strategy is not | :45:24. | :45:32. | |
working? Jobs are not been created fast enough. We are in a recession. | :45:32. | :45:38. | |
That is thanks to the previous government. We are having to turn | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
things around. It is not going to be easy. I am not going to sit here | :45:43. | :45:52. | |
pretended will happen overnight. What we are committed to doing is | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
that �180 million is going to spend on 365,000 apprenticeships. If we | :45:56. | :46:03. | |
want to get people back to work. has a point doesn't he, | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
unemployment rose under Labour as well. It was not working? | :46:08. | :46:17. | |
future job scheme was working. People want that jobs been back. | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
The figures were rising? It was a long-term programme, it was getting | :46:22. | :46:32. | |
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people back into work. We have lost the working neighbour its fund -- | :46:33. | :46:43. | |
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working in neighbourhoods fund. spend all the money? People in work | :46:44. | :46:54. | |
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pay taxes. It was not unsustainable. It should have been cut slowly, | :46:54. | :47:01. | |
people in work paying taxes. After that, you can cut the deficit. The | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
problem is, what we are missing, these rates have risen massively | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
from August last year to August of this year. This is not a problem of | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
the Labour government, this is a problem of the coalition government. | :47:14. | :47:22. | |
With respect, these funds were cut under the previous government. A | :47:22. | :47:28. | |
cut is a cut. When Labour came to power there were 600,000 people and | :47:28. | :47:35. | |
-- 600,000 young people under work, that had risen to 900,000 under -- | :47:35. | :47:42. | |
when Labour left power. The future jobs fund was creating jobs, they | :47:42. | :47:48. | |
by artificial jobs. What we are going to do with the | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
apprenticeships scheme is create more jobs. With the North East | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
having the highest unemployment rate, the lowest employment rates, | :47:58. | :48:00. | |
should be governed be doing something specific bodies area? | :48:00. | :48:08. | |
Absolutely. Do not forget what is being announced today, two big | :48:08. | :48:17. | |
schemes, one is freeing up brownfield land. We want to weird | :48:17. | :48:27. | |
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and like -- re- energise this area. Or every house, we are going to | :48:30. | :48:38. | |
build another house. This is a revenue neutral, you sell, you | :48:38. | :48:44. | |
build. I want to ask Julie a quick question, the government is doing | :48:44. | :48:48. | |
things with the resources they have, do you accept that? They are trying | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
to panic -- they are starting to panic. There are some gimmicky | :48:53. | :49:00. | |
schemes. There is a gimmick for selling houses. There is no real | :49:00. | :49:05. | |
plan, there is a housing crisis in this area. There changes to | :49:05. | :49:12. | |
planning regulations are going to stop houses being built. A I do not | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
a think they policy adds up. By thank you very much. | :49:17. | :49:22. | |
Ed Miliband are like this talk about the squeeze Middle -- likes | :49:22. | :49:28. | |
to talk about be squeezed middle. The rising cost the middle -- the | :49:28. | :49:33. | |
rising cost of living. MPs in this area think he should be talking | :49:33. | :49:43. | |
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about people that he should be The Labour conference in 2011, | :49:55. | :50:04. | |
plenty of colour, plenty of campaigners. A good bit of red. | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
There are a Labour members to believe their party has not been | :50:08. | :50:16. | |
read enough in the last the years. One last -- won at North East MP is | :50:16. | :50:20. | |
trying to put that right. This is a meeting of the Labour left. A small | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
gathering, but they have big ambitions. They want to bury have | :50:25. | :50:33. | |
some new Labour policies. Their chairman is from the North East. | :50:33. | :50:39. | |
-- 66 % of the population live in households where the income is less | :50:39. | :50:44. | |
than �25,000 here, I am rather sceptical about electoral | :50:44. | :50:50. | |
arithmetic of chasing the squeeze the middle. There is an opportunity | :50:50. | :50:55. | |
to capture the boats are people who did not vote in the last election. | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
What does that mean? We do not know for certain until they publish | :50:59. | :51:04. | |
their Red Book, but there is a talk of taxing the rich, increasing the | :51:04. | :51:14. | |
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middle age -- minimum wage, and opening coalmines. There were many | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
industries privatise under successive governments, we want to | :51:17. | :51:23. | |
renationalise them. There are worries about a new Labour been | :51:23. | :51:28. | |
reborn, we feel completely disenfranchised from that. We want | :51:28. | :51:33. | |
to see the Labour Party representing people. The North East | :51:33. | :51:38. | |
will be wed -- well represented in the Red Book. As well as Grahame | :51:38. | :51:48. | |
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Morris and Ian Lavery, they're all the other MPs on the region. If you | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
stick to fuel and power, these are industries which people would like | :51:54. | :52:00. | |
to see nationalised. I we have to move to the founding principles of | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
the Labour Party. We have to move on to ground the that we are | :52:05. | :52:11. | |
familiar with. Things need to change, by the looks of it, they | :52:11. | :52:16. | |
are listening. This is a party in search of a new direction. Even | :52:16. | :52:21. | |
those not on the left to save these ideas are welcome, with some | :52:21. | :52:26. | |
qualifications. There is an idea that some commentators have, not in | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
the party, that Labour lost in 2010 if because they were not a left- | :52:30. | :52:34. | |
wing enough. That is why people voted for David Cameron. I think | :52:34. | :52:40. | |
that is nonsense. People want the same as they have always wanted, | :52:40. | :52:44. | |
economic competence, along with investment in services that matter | :52:44. | :52:50. | |
to them. Labour delegates got to bask in an unlikely heatwave. This | :52:50. | :52:55. | |
is a party out in the cold. The question is, would making it a | :52:55. | :53:03. | |
small red get them back in power? - - more red. | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
Do you think Labour has spent too much time talking about the squeeze | :53:06. | :53:16. | |
the middle? I do not think there is a disenfranchised with the voters. | :53:16. | :53:21. | |
The Labour Party wants to appeal to every type of voter. We are a party | :53:21. | :53:26. | |
of aspirations, giving people a fair crack of the whip. There are a | :53:26. | :53:31. | |
lot of voters who drifted away? but they were not necessary for the | :53:31. | :53:38. | |
low-paid sector of the electorate. People started voting, people did | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
not disengage and the political process. That is not entirely true. | :53:43. | :53:48. | |
House of abetted you think that Ed Miliband will be to the idea set | :53:48. | :53:58. | |
out by the left. We are in a time when there are a lot of ideas. | :53:58. | :54:03. | |
There are a lot of ideas, that is exactly where we should be in | :54:03. | :54:09. | |
opposition. Looking at the range of ideas and policies. | :54:09. | :54:12. | |
renationalisation an idea we should -- you should be looking at? | :54:12. | :54:16. | |
might be an idea that some people are attached to romantically, it is | :54:16. | :54:25. | |
not realistic. Given the current state of the economy, voters may be | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
in a mood for some renationalisation, they might one | :54:29. | :54:34. | |
some control over the power companies? Far be it from me to | :54:34. | :54:40. | |
stop the Labour party contemplating electoral suicide! I think voters | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
might look at that, and look at their power rates going up, but | :54:45. | :54:48. | |
looking at renationalisation, Pollock -- politicians deciding | :54:48. | :54:54. | |
when you get power, it does not work. It is not part of the real | :54:54. | :55:00. | |
world. Labour needs to take some lessons from us when we lost power, | :55:00. | :55:05. | |
and stop trying to appeal from the low -- appealed to the lowest | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
common denominator. The reason that you lost it is because he neglected | :55:09. | :55:14. | |
the majority of people in this country. He say that, but your | :55:14. | :55:21. | |
party did not win the last election! A market economy with | :55:21. | :55:26. | |
bankers has failed us, there is no sign that that economic system is | :55:26. | :55:33. | |
doing us particularly well? It is exactly the same across the world. | :55:33. | :55:42. | |
I do not a pink nationalisation, S doing a Michael Foot suicide notes, | :55:42. | :55:49. | |
that is not the answer. If we need to get the banks back into profit. | :55:49. | :55:56. | |
Julie Elliott, is an air of danger you are going to come up with | :55:56. | :56:01. | |
policies that appeal to party members, but not to be public? | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
would not support policies that appeal to a small group of people, | :56:05. | :56:14. | |
or idea -- I think you need to appeal to a broad majority. We want | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
to appeal to everybody. Thank you very much. That is all | :56:18. | :56:24. |