Jeremy Corbyn Election 2017

negotiation position has been made clear. Many people will think that

is shocking news for business, large am particularly small, and bad news

for families feeling the Brexit squeeze. Thank you.

That shop is closed, for example. And this one? Betis the Fish bar.

That opens at about 5pm. The owner of the fish bar came to see me and

said, I am being put out of business by the fact that people cannot get

to my fish bar in the evening because they are having to run the

gauntlet with all the kids hanging around. He was very concerned. We

did what we could. It is a fundamental issue with the fact...

We are being watched. There is not one poop bid for dog disposal. We

local businesses, my family own a local business and you always take

the risk because the response rate from the police has massively slow

down. Local businesses are so important in a city like

Southampton, but as a local business owner, so many shops including me

are finding it very difficult. We are prepared to spend more money on

the police. If you have got more police on the beat in contact with

the community, crime rates fall, businesses do better. It is a plus.

With every arrest that the police eventually make, it costs a lot of

money, potentially you have somebody in a young offenders' Institute or

prison, it costs a lot of money every week. Investment in good

community policing eventually saves a lot of money and creates a better

atmosphere. If someone can't run his business because of kids outside,

that is an example. You hear that all over the country where police

and others have been cut. The police we have are amazing, we just more of

them. Around here, this is a lifeline for the local community. We

are a long way away from the big shopping centres and it is just so

important. What is the level of car ownership? Relatively low compared

to most of Southampton. So without a local shop... Tesco is down the

road, but it is quite a way if you are elderly and there is not a

direct bus from the estate to get there. This is the story across the

whole country. Cut back on police, cutback in bus services, isolation

of poorer working class communities, cannot get to the out-of-town

shopping centres and so on. We need regeneration of these areas,

communities where people live. If they cannot get there, they cannot

get their food, they are starving. He has been in here for a long time,

this man? I met him before that. These are such youngsters. He was

the leader of the council. A Labour council and the Labour MP read good

team. That is how it should be. Everybody needs to work together for

the community. And you can be honest with each other... Oh, we are. If

people think you are going wrong, say something. I realise the

problems that the council has because the budget is cut by the

Government. That is what people need to understand. They are like, the

council cut that. Look further, the Government cup that, the council

cannot afford it, what can we do? If you follow the line and see who cut

it originally... Are you a counsellor? Not yet. Are you going

to be? Would you vote for her? She has voted for Allen for the first

time. To you. Thank you for being here

today. I expect to see bus stops, bigger car park. Bus seats.

Just up there on Kendall Avenue. Has it got worse? We can hear our kids

drinking and swearing. It's a question of police, opportunity,

things for young people to do. It is a combination of everything. You got

some good ideas on this, haven't you? Yes. More police would help. It

would do. They don't often come round unless it is really bad. That

is not a good sign. You need to see them all the time. And are you going

to keep the triple lock? Absolutely. It is wrong it should ever be

threatened at all. That's good. I can give you a sneak preview of that

line of the manifesto, OK? You heard it first here. Thank you Mr Corbyn.

Lovely to see you. Good to see you. Wasn't expecting it. I just came up

to get the milk, I heard you were coming and I thought I would stay.

Nice to meet you, and I shall be voting for you. Thank you very much.

Would just get to go through here. -- we are just going to go through

here. Over here. We just want to talk to things as

they are today. Mr Corbyn, thank you for joining us. You are going to add

10,000 more police officers on the street. How much will it cost? The

hundred million. Thine Abbott got a bit confused on the radio earlier.

She corrected the figure. It will be paid for by not going ahead with the

cuts in capital gains tax. Isn't it embarrassing that she got it wrong?

Absolutely not. She corrected the figure and it is absolutely clear.

The cuts to capital gains tax that you would reverse, you say it would

save ?2.7 billion, so money will be left over for other things as well.

You talked about reversing cuts to disability benefits... Can I ask you

to hold a little. The manifesto is not published yet. It will be

published very soon. You will get all the commotion there. All of our

proposals are costed and funded. John McDonnell promised to reverse

cuts to disability benefits. I'm sure people will be interested to

know if that will happen. It will be costed and funded, including what

John McDonnell oppose. Teacher shortages, which you promised to pay

for? It is all funded, don't worry about that. It's what we do as a

nation. Do we cut police numbers put police back on the street? Do we

support the CSOs or do we continue to see them reduce. The stories

around here that people have told me is one that you can hear in any

suburban every around the country where crime as increase, anti-social

behaviour has increased through a combination of a lack of use centres

and police only arriving when there is a serious incident. Under the

previous Labour government, we have the CSO 's and safer neighbourhoods.

Operation and respect for the police grew because they saw the police as

a part of the community rather than just arriving when there is a big

problem. This is an important development we are putting forward.

There are new types of crime. Is this the best use of resources for

bobbies on the beat? On the streets we don't want anti-social behaviour.

We want people to behave properly and we want young people to have

positive things to do. Looking at the number of youth services

available, youth workers working for councils are important. Things like

cybercrime are important. Here in Southampton, a student town,

there are issues surrounding that there are issues surrounding that

and the police are stretched. We'd just had the 20th anniversary of new

Labour's landslide victory, are you taking up Tony Blair's Mansell of

being tough on crime? I would say support for communities and bringing

about a sense of involvement. It's not a sound bite like 1997. This is

2017. I'm not really into sound bites. I'm much more into a thought

process on these matters. That is not a criticism, by the way, in case

you want to write a story on that. This is a seat you were hoping to

keep, maybe pick-up some more in Southampton. It's quite modest

event. Were you hoping for a bigger turnout? No, I came to talk to

residents and that's what I've done. Sometimes when you meet a smaller

number of people, you learn more. And 300 million is at the final

answer as to the cost of extra police officers? Yes, but the third

time. You did have two Labour MPs. What is Labour doing... INAUDIBLE.

We need more police officers and we are hoping to put 10,000 more

officers on the streets, which doesn't cover the cup that the

Conservatives made of 20,000. The discussion I've had with residents,

it's a combination of things. It's about police Deignan with reported

crime and the presence on the street in the community which creates an

atmosphere of greater cooperation with the police. Are you confident

your message is getting through? You are not doing particularly well. Are

you confident you can win the seats, seats like this? Yes, absolutely. I

am travelling the whole country, talking to a lot of people. We are

out on the streets every day talking to a lot of people. The other thing

we are doing is listening to people. They are fed up with this whole

process of austerity which cuts local government services, police

officers, teacher numbers, creates a greater sense of disengagement with

society. We had to reorder our business. We had to invest in

people, investor the future. My final question. The Tories are

saying your announcement this morning, 10,000 extra officers, that

money is already spent elsewhere. What is your answer to Theresa May

on that? Look at what we said rather than what you think we said and you

will see that the money is there. All the proposals we have made are

you. Thank you. If we could just set you. Thank you. If we could just set

up shop for regional TV.