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APPLAUSE. He is a man for the many of this | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
country, not the few! APPLAUSE. | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
I went to school, I failed the 11-plus. She wants to go back to it. | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
And she'll take the money from the state schools and put them into the | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
private schools and build the grammar schools. That is not what we | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
believe in. That is not fair. The other one that swung it for me. | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
She's so vicious, she wants to (inaudible) | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
She wants a return to foxhunting. I'll tell you what, we stopped it | :01:21. | :01:36. | |
before, we'll stop it again. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. | :01:37. | :01:50. | |
This man said, I wanted to talk about politics, I want to talk about | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
pensions, I want to talk about the children. That's what we're about, | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
that's what the future is about, a fair Britain. So the man who will | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
replace this woman as the Prime Minister, here we have Jeremy | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Corbyn! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. | :02:07. | :02:27. | |
Thank you. Thank you very much. I come to Scarborough bearing a gift. | :02:28. | :02:39. | |
And it's a gift of Eric for Scarborough and Whitby. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
APPLAUSE. Thank you very much, Jeremy. Hes the | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
manifesto that's going to put Jeremy in Parliament and be our next Prime | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
Minister, as was said, for the many, not the few. Thank you. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
APPLAUSE. Eric, thank you and thank you all | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
for being here today. What a fantastic crowd. And do you know | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
what, this I think is the 52nd event I've done since this election | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
campaign began and do you know what, each rally gets bigger than the | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
last! APPLAUSE. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
I can't imagine why that would be. It's obviously the fine weather here | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
in Scarborough, it's obviously the great venue, it's obviously the | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
great beach and the sea. I can't understand why there are not more | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
people swimming. But this is a constituency that we want to win. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
That's why we're here. APPLAUSE. | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
Thank you very much. We will win it, is that agreed? Yes. Eric is the man | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
to do it. That is why we are here and travelling all over the country | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
doing these meetings and rallies, because we want to put that message | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
out to everybody in every single part of the country, what the | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
choices are in this election. T choices need to be discussed and | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
debated. The choices need to be put under scrutiny. I have no problem | :04:15. | :04:26. | |
with that. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister continues to decline going | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
into any debate or taking any questions from the public as a | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
whole. I think that is wrong in an election. An election is about | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
debate and is about choice. And today presented something as if it | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
was a U-turn which I'm interested in because yesterday I suggested they | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
either do a hand brake or a U-turn or something useful on social care. | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
So it's a kind of triumph of spin over reality when you announce | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
you're doing a U-turn, you read what she's actually said and it's exactly | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
the same as what they said last week but they're pretending it's | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
something different. The reality is this. There are one million people | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
in this country, many of them are very frail older people, many with | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
disabilities, learning difficulties, who need social care. There is many | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
waiting for it. Because it's not there, because it's inadequate, many | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
can't be discharged from hospital because there's nowhere for them to | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
go, and too often, families have to make enormous sacrifices and it's | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
unfortunately usually the women who end up giving up work in order to | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
care for people who ought to be cared for by all of us. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
APPLAUSE. And so... | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
We are not making false promises. What we will do is immediately put | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
in ?2 billion to plug the funding gap in the current crisis in social | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
care. APPLAUSE. | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
So that those in desperate need do get the care they need and deserve. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
That's what we will do straightaway. And then we will build our NHS, our | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
social care, our mental Health Services, so they're fit for the | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
needs of the people of this country. We've been reduced to the idea of | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
the corridor nurse in a hospital. We are going through a mental health | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
crisis in this country. A quarter of us will go through some kind of | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
mental health crisis during our lifetime. Being told to wait six | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
months before you get an appointment to an expert or somebody can give | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
you therapy, while 6,000 mental health nurses have lost their jobs | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
in the NHS. You're looking at a Government that's got its priorities | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
totally and completely wrong in comparison to other people in our | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
society. APPLAUSE. | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
So whilst they would rather further reduce corporate taxation, further | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
reduce the tax burden of the very wealthiest in our society, we have a | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
different approach, a totally different approach. That is not to | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
place that tax cost on 95% of the people of this country, but to place | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
that tax cost where it should always have been, on the biggest | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
corporations and the wealthiest within our society. | :07:39. | :07:39. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. And then they have the that mayorty | :07:40. | :07:54. | |
to say, well, it's erm all the fault of the young people, it's all the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
fault of the old people, it's always somebody else's fault. I'll tell you | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
what, we are not getting into this game of blaming generations. I'm not | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
blaming the young for being young, I'm not blaming the old for being | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
old, I'm saying to the older generation, you make a fantastic | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
contribution to our society. You don't deserve... | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
APPLAUSE. You don't deserve the injustice that | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
the WASPI women have been through, you don't deserve to have | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
uncertainty about social care or the National Health Service and you | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
don't deserve to be leading a lonely life because society is apparently | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
passing you by. What we have to develop is that inclusive approach | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
to our society where we do fund and guarantee pensions and social care | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
for those who need it. We also look at the younger generation. Is it the | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
fault of children now going to school that there is insufficient | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
money being paid by the Government towards their schools? Is it share | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
fault there was a banking crisis in 2008? Why should head teachers be | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
put through what is frankly the indignity of having to collect money | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
for parents in order to sustain the school budget. That is simply wrong. | :09:17. | :09:29. | |
Too many of our children are in super sized or oversized classes, | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
too many live a life of poverty and are not achieving what they should | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
in primary school, therefore they don't go on to achieve in secondary, | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
therefore they don't achieve their ambitions in life. A child who | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
doesn't achieve their ambitions in life does not become the doctor, the | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
engineer, the teacher, the nurse, whatever it is they want to achieve. | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
They obviously lose out individually, of course, but do you | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
know what, we all lose, we don't have that doctor, we don't have that | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
engineer, we don't have that nurse, we don't have that teacher. I see | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
spending on education, spending on preschool, spending on secondary, | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
spending on university as an investment for all of us, for all of | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
us. APPLAUSE. | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
And so it's very clear, hungry children don't learn very well and | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
too many of our children turn up to school hungry. Parents relying on | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
food banks, even people in work relying on food banks in modern | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
low-paid Britain. So immediately we will introduce a free school meal | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
for every primary school in England for every child to get that meal | :10:49. | :10:59. | |
together. And John and I have just come from Hull and I did say to the | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
people of Hull that amongst its many fine exports is John Prescott, so | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
thank you Hull. We have launched our cultural | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
manifesto there. A manifesto which is about creating a culture fund for | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
the whole country to support our local theatres, support our local | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
museums and Scarborough, you have that fantastic artistic tradition. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
The theatres, the music, the entertainment and the creativity | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
that's there. But do you know what, in every child, there is enthusiasm. | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
In every child, there is creativity, there is imagination. Isn't it up to | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
all of us to unlock that imagination and so one proposal that I'm very | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
proud of, very, very proud of, is the introduction of a pupil arts | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
premium so that every child in every school can learn a musical | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
instrument. APPLAUSE. | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
And then, as you go on, we all want our children to achieve, get the | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
skills, go on to university, make the best of their lives. But, but so | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
many are put off by the cost, so many are put off by the debt, so we | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
are going to do a number of things. One, we are bringing back the | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
educational maintenance allowance. So people aren't deterred to stay on | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
in school or college. Secondly, and it's a big demand, it's a big issue | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
and we have discussed it very carefully and we've costed it as | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
well equally carefully, we want to end the tuition fees system in our | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
universities so that no-one is deterred from going to university. | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
APPLAUSE. And in areas where only 15, 20% of | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
the young people go to university, I want those figures to rise. I want | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
all of our young people who're able to and Ben from it from and want to | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
two to university to have that chance -- benefit from. | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. We'll also support those through the | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
return of the maintenance allowance at university. So, this election is | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
about all of those things. But it's also about the kind of economy in | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
society we want to live in. Six million people in modern Britain | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
earn less than the living wage. One million are on zero hours contracts | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
not knowing from day-to-day if they're working or not, waiting for | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
that text message, not knowing what their income will be, not knowing if | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
they're going to be able to pay their rent at the end of the week or | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
month. It's simply not right. Why can't we instead have a living wage, | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
a living wage that is really a living wage? That's why we put the | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
figure in there of ?10 per hour as a real living wage. | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
APPLAUSE. And also rights at work from day one | :14:08. | :14:17. | |
because we have employment laws in Britain that are frankly inadequate | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
and getting worse under this Tory Government. | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
So we put all these things together as an opportunity and a right, but | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
it's also about what we do as a country and with our economy. I'm | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
fed up with the imbalance of investment, fed up with the needs of | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
some parts of the country being left behind. When John was in Government, | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
he did everything he could to improve devolution, to improve | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
decision-making at a local level. I've talked a lot with him about | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
this and we are going to develop that. But, we are also going to set | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
up a national investment bank which will invest to all parts of the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
country, will invest in the infrastructure we need, good quality | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
railway lines, Broadband, improved transport connections and be | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
prepared to invest in sustainable, high-tech cutting-edge technology to | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
strengthen our economy for the future. | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
Because it's the future of everybody that's so important important and so | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
there will be negotiations with the European Union. I understand that. I | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
understand the result of the referendum. I accept the result of | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
the referendum and I want a Labour Government to negotiate tariff-free | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
access to the European market, protection of the rights we have | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
achieved and protection of the EU nationals so we have a process and a | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
policy that sustains and defends the manufacturing industry jobs we have | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
all over this country that rely on trade with Europe. These are serious | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
times and serious issues. We are not going to threaten the | :15:53. | :16:02. | |
rest of the world of turning this country into some kind of tax haven | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
on the shores of Europe to threaten everybody else. I want an economy, a | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
society in Britain that doesn't glory in the levels of grotesque | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
inequality in Britain, but instead a government that is determined to | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
deal with inequality, deal with injustice, deal with poverty, deal | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
with all those things! And it's about the world we leave behind in | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
the future, how we protect our seas, how we protect our forests, how we | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
protect our coastline, how we sustain our natural environment on | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
which we live. So in this Labour manifesto, this Labour manifesto has | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
been put very carefully and carefully and properly costed. It | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
offers, I believe, something very different to those offered by other | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
parties. We offer a good public services, we offer a good education. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
We offer a health service worthy of the name. But above all we offer the | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
idea that everyone of us matters. We are young, we are old, we are white, | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
we are black, we are gay, we are straight, we are all kinds of people | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
in society. CHEERING APPLAUSE | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
A blame culture gets you nowhere, our culture of inclusion, a culture | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
of respect, a culture of support means as society becomes stronger. | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
It was that great Labour government before I was born that gave us the | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
national health service after the Second World War because they | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
believed in the principles of inclusive sustainable society. It's | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
the election of 2017, the election of 2017 that says we want to develop | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
our country fit for the 21st-century. We don't pass by on | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
the other side in life, we look out for and support each other. So why | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
should we have a government that passes by on the other side, to the | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
homeless, the children who are not properly fed, the small businesses | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
struggling to survive, to those that want to change and improve their | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
lives? I am fed up with a government that can only cut expenditure on the | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
National Health Service, cut expenditure on social care, cut | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
expenditure to local government. I am fed up with that kind of | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
government. I think it's time to do something different. So we will be | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
chasing down those who think it is clever to put their money in tax | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
havens. We will not be handing 60 billion to the richest in our | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
society at the expense of the Buddhist. With Labour you will get a | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
government that generally works for and carers for all. I simply say | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
this, it is now coming up to 3:30pm. At midnight is the last moment to | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
register to vote. Over 2 million people, mainly young people, have | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
already registered since this election was announced. CHEERING | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
APPLAUSE So if any of you here have not voted | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
the lead back registered to vote, I am asking you to go straight to your | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
phone, get online, do it now and register to vote. Because it is your | :19:47. | :19:58. | |
future. And we received some criticism in some of the media I | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
believe, and I believe some of it is sometimes personal against good | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
friends of mine and even myself. But I tell you this, I haven't got time, | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
energy or inclination to get in the gutter with that kind... CHEERING | :20:15. | :20:24. | |
APPLAUSE Because our energies are totally | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
focused on winning this election on June eight. So I would like all of | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
you who are watching or listening today, joining our campaign but I | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
invite all of you to do all the things we always do at elections | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
where we deliver pamphlets, knock on doors, talk to people, that is | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
absolutely crucial. But what is also crucial is the atmosphere in which | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
the election is conducted. The voice of the future! What is also crucial | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
is that debate, the discussion you have in the cafe, in the pub, on the | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
bus or the train, anywhere you go, have that discussion. This election | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
is a choice, a choice between a party that glories in inequality, | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
that glories in tax relief at the top end, that pretends somehow or | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
other everything is working when everyone who is on frozen wages, | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
everyone is waiting at the hospital queue, everyone is waiting to get | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
decent housing, all of those that are waiting for that chance to make | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
the best of their lives, the choices there. I invite all of you to come | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
together, for the many, not the few! Thank you very much! CHEERING | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
APPLAUSE | :21:50. | :22:00. |