Jeremy Corbyn Election 2017

APPLAUSE Thank you, thank you for that

introduction and thank you for delaying your lunch in order that I

can speak to you today. Angry for the that. To be here in

Aviemore is something that is very special to me. Because the ST UC has

a wonderful tradition of fighting for the working people of Scotland

and influencing public debate on behalf of working people. It has

been at the forefront of social progress in Scotland. It is the

collectivism of the trade union movement through working people

fighting alongside each other. It has always been an noise will be the

driver of great progressive change in Scotland and in the rest of the

UK and across the world. No more so is the case of the inspiring young

activists involved in the better than zero campaign, they are vibrant

and engaging in the action which is a shining example of modern trade

unionism, carrying on the historic fight in the system still weighed

against working people. But that site is still one we have

collectively committed to. We continue to do so because friends,

it works! We will not let anyone tell us otherwise. It is trade

unions that has driven up wages and living standards, health and safety

the workplace and challenge prejudice and discrimination, as you

were just doing in emotion that you just carried. It is the unions that

have worked with ourselves and the Labour Party to transform our

society. To offer the opportunities to our people that so many of our

forefathers and especially for mothers, unfortunately did not

enjoy. They are our heroes, it was our predecessors who suffered

exploitation in the workplace and wider society. It was they who were

not prepared to stand idly by, who instead chose to fight back and win

many of the games that we enjoy today.

# Many of the games that we enjoy today. Our health service, Social

Security, our education system and so much more where one on the

shoulders of these giants in the labour and trade union movement. Let

none of us ever forget from whence we came! The better we know where

we're going to! APPLAUSE

Friends, that is why I could not be at a better or more appropriate

place to start general election campaign in Scotland. We are

standing for the many, not the few. It is through our collective power,

in a trade union, that we ensured the many, standing together, have a

power to stand up to the rich and the powerful few. The Labour Party

will always cherish sustain and the Pat our relationship with the train

union movement and the working people but all of you in this whole

represent. You are DNA, our family and we will never, ever apologise

for the closeness of our relationship with you.

APPLAUSE Friends, just like here hardly I'm

proud to be a trade unionist I carry my card with me wherever I go, I've

been in trade unions all my life and I would buy a trade unionist because

that is what I believe in! APPLAUSE

That is why one of the very first things we will do when forming our

Labour government will be to repeal the Tory trade union act.

CHEERING APPLAUSE

Giving working people the rights to collectively organise and make their

lives better, safer, and more content.

With the timing of the election is unexpected, the choice is clear and

the state is a very, very high. But let no one be in any doubt that we

are in this election to win it and we will fight for every seat in

every corner of these Allens! APPLAUSE

-- of these islands. I said the other day, that the dividing lines

in these elections could not be clever from the outset. It is the

Conservative Party, the party of privilege and the richest burst of

the Labour Party, the party that is standing up to working people bash

macro for working people. To improve the lives of all. -- that is

standing up to improve the lives of working people. I implore people in

Scotland to fight for the party of progress and not the vicious Tory

party who are alongside the previous Coalition parties, the Lib Dems,

unleashed an unprecedented attack on the working people in this country.

APPLAUSE The choice facing this country this

election is clear, it is the people versus the powerful. Labour will

challenge the root system that is holding our country back, in this

election Labour will offer hope to the nurse, the teacher, the small

trader, the carer, the builder, the office worker, the bus driver, the

factory worker, the farm worker, and the factory worker in any situation.

We will provide the change and transformative policy programme that

puts power and opportunity in people's hands. We will fight this

election offering a positive vision for our country, we will present to

the British people and economic and political alternative. We will

promise to make our country work for the many, not for the few. We will

make jobs better and more secure, with a real living wage and stronger

rights at work. APPLAUSE

We will end the public sector pay cap that this are very committed

public-sector servants every day of the week.

APPLAUSE We will end the need for food banks

in Britain. APPLAUSE

We will upgrade our economy to create wealth for our people in the

21st-century through investment in our infrastructure, helping small

businesses, delivering high skilled jobs and ending poverty pay will

stop we will never put tax giveaways to the corporations and the wealth

were used above are vital public services like social care and the

National Health Service. Those engines of opportunity, stalls and

colleges, we will give them the funding we need the Scottish people

are facing a crucial choice in the selection. The Tories are trying to

use Brexit to temperate in into a low wage tax haven, born in the

interest of the powerful, Labour will negotiate a Brexit that will

build on the gains one workers, consumers and the environment in the

European Union, will put jobs, living standards and human rights

first. APPLAUSE

Friends, this is a general election, not a referendum, and only labour

can form a government and after an alternative that will transform the

lives of people in Scotland. The truth is that the Tories and the SNP

are obsessed with the power struggles against Brussels and

Westminster when the energy should be used to change and transform our

economy, to ensure that no one and no community is left behind.

APPLAUSE The Tories, while the Tories,

LAUGHTER They will always seek to undermine, diluted, or simply

eliminate all the games that we won. That is who they are and that is

what they do. They act for the powerful and the powerful back them.

That is what we are up against, that is what our predecessors were up

against, it never stopped them and it won't stop was!

APPLAUSE -- and it will not stop was! Much of

the media and their friends in the establishment saying that this

election is a foregone conclusion. They think there are rules in

politics which if you do not follow them you do not win. You start by

doffing your cap to the powerful people, excepting the parameters so

nothing can really change. Comrades, it is when you start accepting the

parameters laid down by others, you cannot really win, you have to be

challenged! Our movement knows it. It is any better is standing

together, as the people, for the many, not the powerful that we

really win. Only Labour has the policies that will challenge these

powerful interests and transform the lives of working people. Letters

remember that the only real Progressive Alliance is that Labour

and trade union movement working together as it has always been and

as far as I'm concerned always will be, that is why Labour is

campaigning to win in every seat across the whole country. The deal

we will do with the electorate is to be the government for the many and

not the few. The truth is, politics and policies of labour are needed

now more than ever as our country becomes more and more unfair, more

unjust and more unequal. In Scotland, 260,000 children, 40,000

more than a year ago, are living in poverty. Health inequality,

stubbornly exists. Take a bus ride across any major city in Scotland or

indeed any other part of Britain and you will travel between areas where

there is a life expectancy ten or 12 years longer than the poorest areas

of the inner cities. Educational attainment is our differing and

worsening and the numbers of people working but still considered to be

living in poverty are at the worst point since the pollution. That is

surely where the focus of all politicians should be. So, we will

redistribute wealth in our society to ensure that people are paid at

least a real living wage of ?10 an hour.

APPLAUSE Transforming the lives of 500,000

people in Scotland earning less than the living wage, wiping out the

concept of working poor. And we will protect pensioners' incomes by

legislating to keep the triple lock on state pensions, protecting over 1

million Scottish pensioners. Guaranteeing them a basic income

necessary to live a dignified life in retirement. Only Labour will

protect pensions. We will make sure public spending will be used to

force a change for good in working environments, conditions, equal

opportunities and fair pay, using the power of public procurement in

local and central government to force better working conditions in

all those companies that are benefiting from public service

contracts. I think it is a power we should use. APPLAUSE So we will

ensure that no company wins a public contract if they avoid or evade

taxes. Do not pay the local suppliers on time or refuse to

recognise trade unions. APPLAUSE. This will benefit Scottish workers

and the small businesses across the country currently contracted by the

UK Government to the tune of billions of pounds. We will create a

Scottish National bank under Scottish control and backed by the

National investment bank with ?20 billion of lending power to deliver

funds to local projects and small businesses, creating work and

stimulating the economy. We will aggressively take on the tax

avoidance and if, starting with making corporations publish the

entirety of their tax returns. APPLAUSE. We will ban zero hours

contracts, giving new protections. APPLAUSE. Giving new protections to

60,000 workers, guaranteed with no powers at the moment. How can people

possibly plan their lives, pay the rent, if they have no security of

income? Is it right that so many people wake up in the morning and

the first thing they do is reach for the phone to check if any texts of

cumin, not the nice texts we received from friends and family or

people wishing us well and so on, but to find out if they have got any

work that day or not? It is not a right of the way of treating people.

We will end zero hours contracts, once and for all. APPLAUSE When

injustices are historic and occurred some while ago, it does not diminish

in the reality of that injustice all the hurt that was suffered, so we

will set up enquiries into blacklisting. APPLAUSE And we will

urge the Scottish Government to set up an inquiry into the actions of

the police during the miners' strike in Scotland.

APPLAUSE We will give all workers equal rights from day one to stop

some workers being exploited and others being undercut. You know that

how that system works as well as I do. And we will introduce a right to

own, giving workers first refusal when the company faces a change of

ownership or closer. I think those are important rights so the

contribution, skills and commitment of workers to the companies will be

recognised when there is a crisis in that company. Too often, it is the

skills that are not recognised in the wisdom that is lost as the doors

are closed, once and for all. We want an opportunity for workers to

take over those companies as a point of first refusal. We will probably

fund the Health and Safety Executive which has been shamefully cut back

under this government. And we will work with trade unions and industry

to reintroduce sectoral collective bargaining across the whole of the

country. APPLAUSE. And we will also introduce four new public holidays,

giving people the time to lead better and more fulfilling lives,

helping productivity at the same time, and we will ask for the

support of the governments of Wells, Scotland and Northern Ireland said

the same four holidays can be enjoyed across the whole of the

United Kingdom. APPLAUSE. Our aim is a country where everyone can, has

the dignity of work, and where everyone has a guarantee of dignity

and work. These are the types of transformative policies that can

change people's lives for the better. Just like it has always

been, only Labour will deliver for working people, small businesses and

our most vulnerable people. None of the rest would even think of these

types of policies, let alone achieve them. It is only Labour that will

focus on the kind of country we need after Brexit. In the coming weeks,

in a designed to unlock in a designed to unlock

opportunities for every single person in this country. We will

focus on giving people real control over their own lives and make sure

that everybody reads a just reward for the work they do. We will no

longer allowed those at the top to leech off those who bust the guts of

zero hours contracts and are forced to make sacrifices to pay the

mortgage or rent. Instead of the country's wealth being hidden in tax

havens, we will put in the hands of the people of Britain because the

place! APPLAUSE. In this election, place! APPLAUSE. In this election,

Labour will lead the movement to make that change. We will build a

new economy worthy of the 21st-century and build a country for

the many, not the few. Thank you very much indeed. APPLAUSE.