Jeremy Corbyn Election 2017

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Good afternoon! CHEERING Welcome, our next MP, Thelma.

Thelma, teacher, experienced campaigner, standing up for

education and housing. She is the kind of person you want as your MP,

she is the kind of person that will represent you in Parliament and make

sure that the sustainability and plans designed to reduce A all

around the country are suspended when John Ashworth becomes the

Health Secretary. Give us a chance to look again at all of these to

make sure there are good quality A departments within reach of

everybody. That is the whole point behind our strategy. Today, we

launched our manifesto in Bradford. That manifesto sets out a very clear

path for this country. Either we can continue going down the road of low

investment, greater inequality, greater poverty, more homeless

people, more food banks, more debt, more young people underachieving,

more schools where headteachers are told the solution to the problem is

to collect from the parents to pay the teachers salary, or we could

say, 95% of us will not be paying more in tax, VAT or National

Insurance, but those with the broadest shoulders, those largest

corporations will be asked to pay a little more. APPLAUSE

So that we can establish and ensure a fairness of investment for

manufacturing and service industries all over the country. They properly

invested transport infrastructure for all parts of Britain, not just

London and the South East. CHEERING Your rail lines need upgrading just

like rail lines all over the country as well. That is why we are going to

set up a national investment bank, so there is a fairness in the

distribution of those farms all over the country. -- so there is a

fairness in the distribution of those funds all over the country.

Looking at all of the other issues we face, fundamentally our unfair

society. We are just covering a couple of subjects. In education, I

am utterly fed up with the way in which school funding formula is so

unfair. It tends to be, the poorest schools with the poorest children,

achieve less because they received the least. It is wrong. And so we

will change that. Making sure there is proper funding. And I want all

our children to be properly fed because a child coming into school

hungry finds it hard to concentrate. A child coming into school hungry

finding it hard to concentrate is less likely to succeed in primary

school. Leaving primary school without all the skills they should

be equipped with, less likely to do well in secondary school, less

likely to do A-levels or any other qualification, less likely to get to

college or university. That means a poor child growing up in poverty

does not get to be the teacher, the engineer, the doctor, the lawyer, or

to achieve what they want in their lives. Two people lose because of

that, one is that child who hasn't achieved what they wanted in life,

their ambitions, the other people who lose all of us because that

bright child didn't get to be the doctor, the lawyer or whatever else

they wanted to be. They underachieved in life. So I am

utterly determined that we will find our schools properly, we will pay

our teachers properly and not force them to leave under stress levels

that are unbearable. And we will make sure children are properly fed

and primary schools are giving every child a good lunch every day. And,

I'm sure you agree with me and that we all share this, learning is about

English, it is about maths, science, geography and history, all

absolutely crucial and important subjects. But it is also about

unlocking the creativity and imagination that is the air in all

of us. -- that is there in all of us. It is about being part of a

wider community, the great African saying is, it takes a village to

bring up a child, it takes a child to educate a village. That is the

philosophy that will be behind it and I am very proud of what we are

doing. We are also going to introduce a pupil premium so every

child in every school can learn a musical instrument. CHEERING

And before some incredible expert writes for one of our broadsheet

papers, tells me this is all unnecessary and excessive and

nonsense, I simply say this, you do well at music, you do well at music,

you do well at maths, you do well at music. Science and arts are not that

far apart. But we also have other challenges. Students going on in the

university, those who want to be nurses, held back because the

Government has cancelled the nurse bursary. I was talking to a group of

nurses in Bristol last week and they had decided to go into nursing, they

had done other jobs in their lives and they wanted to go into nursing.

Absolutely brilliant because they are bringing that life experience

into nursing. But they told me they could only do it because they had

got the nurse bursary to help them through the training. The Tories

cancelled, the force there will be a shortage of nurses. A Labour

Government on June ninth will bring it back.

As well as being in Parliament, I have been a long enough to remember

when going to university was a choice, not something you approach

with trepidation because you wondered what will happen in the

future. We have gone through it all very carefully and we are utterly

determined to get rid of student fees so everyone can go to

university. CHEERING So, these things are all very

important. What is also important is the way in which we approach the

other issues that are facing so many. I am constantly angry and

shocked at the number of people I meet in all our towns and cities who

are sleeping rough, who are homeless. Those that have suffered

all kind of problems in their lives end up sleeping rough. What is it

with modern Britain? What is it with modern Tory Britain that somehow or

other, we just condone it? We just accept it as one of those things? It

is not, it hasn't always been like that. So, we will have a housing

strategy that does support the homeless, that does make sure

everyone... CHEERING But in many ways, those farmers are

a symptom of the problem, a symptom of a country that has not developed

enough secure lifetime tenancy Council housing, that has not

ensured that those who want to buy get a chance because the deposits

are too high or their income to low and those who are living in a

private renting sector in some parts of the country paid far too much and

in all parts of the country are living in an insecure way in an

insecure place, so next week in Birmingham we will be launching our

comprehensive housing strategy that supports the homeless, to give them

somewhere to live, to build the council housing we need, we want a

million new homes in five years, half of which will be council

housing, and we want to regulate the private renting sector and ensure

those that want to buy are able to get that start.

CHEERING Because I do not measure the success

of a housing policy by the number of big-time investors that can buy

luxury homes in London and the south-east and keep them empty while

the prices rise and sell them on without them ever being used. There

is something offensive about places being kept empty while there are

people who are homeless. It will be different. It will be a very, very

different philosophy. And it is also the world in which we live. We are

faced, our generation, we are faced with the issues of climate change.

We are faced with the issues of environmental destruction and

sustainability. I have a very strong view on all of this. I want to bring

the Government that develops an energy policy where 60% of our power

is generated from renewable sources. CHEERING

I want to be the Government that does pay respect to the natural

world, our ecosystems and does play its part in understanding and

supporting global emission agreements and doing everything we

can to protect this planet on which we all live. And so, you will find a

Government that is serious about environmental policies and politics

and serious about sustainability. Because we need to leave this planet

in a better state for our children and grandchildren...

CHEERING And all of this is not romantic

optimism. What it is is serious about people's lives, serious about

our communities and serious about how we invest in our economy and

that is why I started by a short contribution today. But really it is

about what we do to convince people between now and June the 8th how

they are going to vote and what choice they are going to make. Since

this campaign started, we are going on 41 events all around the country

and the numbers of people coming are enormous and if you look around

yourselves at this crowd here today, we are young, we are old, we are

black, we fight, we are women, we are men, we are every part of our

community. -- we are black, we are white. Get that message across,

communities doing things together. Some things you can legislate for.

You can legislate to improve health, improve education, you can spend

money to improve housing. You can invest to improve our economy and

get better rights at work. You can do many of those things. What we can

also do is understand the crisis people go through. I'm very proud of

the section of our manifesto on mental health and Brian who spoke

this morning in Bradford at our launch about his own problems and

his own life and what he was trying to do about it, and what he was

trying to do to help others. Just as much as those people that are living

in difficult lives with mental health, waiting months to get

support, they need help and we need a mental Health Service that works

for them. CHEERING

We also need to recognise that those that rely on pensions, if you are of

an older age, need the security of a triple lock. We will guarantee the

triple lock for all pensioners. Which is something the Conservatives

are incapable of doing. And we also recognise the way in which the Busby

women have been so short-changed by this Government and will indeed

deliver for them. Because I am determined at the end of the period

of a Labour Government, this will be a society not riven by injustice,

inequality, necessary poverty and under of so many of our people but

will instead be stronger communities, stronger public

services and a more efficient economy that works for role, with a

real living wage for all of ?10 an hour.

CHEERING None of this... None of this will be

achieved if you are not registered to vote and don't vote. None of this

will be achieved if we don't ensure that we gain constituencies we don't

hold at the moment. This place is historic beyond belief in political

terms. The political battles through Carn Valley go back hundred years or

more. I have read the history of it but I don't have time to give it to

you now. But in the steps of those that went before, for victory, for

justice, social justice, decent housing, decent health and a decent

and fair society, I invite you all to get behind Delmar, work with her,

knock on those doors... CHEERING

Thelma! Thelma! Thelma! So on June nine, we will know the good news

that this area once again returns to the local polls are Labour MP, who

will deliver the things we are determined to do. The manifesto

hasn't made it from the bus to my hands but Thelma has one. Seamless.

There you are. For the many, not the few. That's our slogan, that's our

watchword, that's our message, that's our inspiration. Go through

it! Thank you very much. CHEERING

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