:00:23. > :00:30.I would not have been here. Absolutely. Remember that when we
:00:31. > :00:37.talk about the National Health Service. Thank you to all of you for
:00:38. > :00:43.being here today. Last time I was in Blyth, I was running along the beach
:00:44. > :00:48.there. Nobody told me how strong the wind was and how cold it was. But it
:00:49. > :00:54.was lovely. What a fantastic place. Thank you for being here. We are
:00:55. > :01:02.doing rallies and meetings all over the country. I am looking in about
:01:03. > :01:06.five different directions. There's a camera over there, over there, and a
:01:07. > :01:18.crowd over here. I will just turn about and share it out, OK? These
:01:19. > :01:23.crowds coming out everywhere, the number of people coming to support
:01:24. > :01:31.us, are truly outstanding. Last Friday, a record was set in British
:01:32. > :01:35.politics. ?500,000 was donated to the Labour Party, not from a
:01:36. > :01:39.billionaire, not from the Cayman Islands, not from the British Virgin
:01:40. > :01:44.Islands, it was not in a check and it was certainly not in a barrel
:01:45. > :01:50.load of cash. It was people online donating small sums of money to help
:01:51. > :01:59.fund our campaign. The average donation was ?19. 19. Do you know
:02:00. > :02:03.what? I'm very proud of that figure because it shows where our
:02:04. > :02:06.supporters and we are support isn't. We know the difference between a
:02:07. > :02:12.party that can raise millions from a few phone calls and a party that can
:02:13. > :02:16.raise money from its members, from its supporters and from the people
:02:17. > :02:19.who want something different and better in this country. Thank you
:02:20. > :02:27.very much for your help and your support. This election is about the
:02:28. > :02:31.choice that people are going to face in this country. Five more years of
:02:32. > :02:37.this Conservative Government, five more years of a Conservative
:02:38. > :02:42.government underfunding health, underfunding LQ casing, not
:02:43. > :02:46.investing in industry, not investing in infrastructure, what kind of
:02:47. > :02:50.country would we be at the end of that? How do many more people would
:02:51. > :02:56.be working for less than witted -- less than living wage, on zero hours
:02:57. > :03:00.contracts, homeless and sleeping rough because they cannot find
:03:01. > :03:06.anywhere to stay? What kind of society would it be? If you have an
:03:07. > :03:13.economic strategy as the Tories do which essentially is a free-market
:03:14. > :03:15.economy, tax relief for big corporations, tax write-offs for the
:03:16. > :03:22.rich and cuts for the rest or you have our alternative. Hold the book
:03:23. > :03:30.up. Thank you. This is the book of words. This is the book of words.
:03:31. > :03:34.What we are saying is something very different. It is about our
:03:35. > :03:50.investment for the future. It is about railways, roads, it is about
:03:51. > :03:56.doing it fairly. Why is it there is nearly ten times as much investment
:03:57. > :04:04.in trance bought in the South East? There must be fairness across the
:04:05. > :04:09.country. The plan that is clear in the manifesto is a national
:04:10. > :04:14.investment bank for the whole country, based in the regions, that
:04:15. > :04:19.will invest fairly across the country so we get those jobs.
:04:20. > :04:24.Support places where we've achieved things, like the county council, to
:04:25. > :04:33.improve the communities, improve the area and invest in our future and
:04:34. > :04:37.our future jobs. So that the wind turbine technology that is needed
:04:38. > :04:43.can be done here. So that Blyth can develop, so that industry can
:04:44. > :04:46.develop in the area. The key thing is public investment. Well done
:04:47. > :04:51.those Labour county councillors that did so much to bring about this.
:04:52. > :04:58.What you need is a Labour government behind it to bring about the
:04:59. > :05:04.investment we need for the future. But it is also about the future of
:05:05. > :05:13.all of us. Our children only get one chance. One chance in nursery,
:05:14. > :05:19.primary, secondary. There is something quite appalling about the
:05:20. > :05:24.advice from government to schools, if there is a funding crisis, have a
:05:25. > :05:31.collection. Pay the staff and a teaching assistant. What kind of
:05:32. > :05:39.message is that? I pay my taxes because I want our children educated
:05:40. > :05:44.severely across the country. I don't want our children educated by the
:05:45. > :05:48.lottery of where they live and how rich the local community is or how
:05:49. > :05:53.poor it is. I want the same chance for every child in every part of the
:05:54. > :06:02.country. No more postcode lotteries predication. Invest for every child
:06:03. > :06:06.everywhere in our country. But, it is what happens before children get
:06:07. > :06:13.to school that is so important and that is why I want every child to
:06:14. > :06:17.have a chance of a good preschool in nurseries, playgroups, and so we are
:06:18. > :06:24.going to offer 30 hours free childcare every week to give that
:06:25. > :06:33.equality of chance from the very beginning. I think that's important.
:06:34. > :06:37.In primary schools, we will properly fund those primary schools, as I've
:06:38. > :06:43.said, we will also ensure that our children are properly fed. They will
:06:44. > :06:47.get a free lunch every day in primary school. All of them having
:06:48. > :06:54.it together. People say this will cost a lot of money. Yes, it is
:06:55. > :06:58.expensive and will cost. I think it is an investment for our future and
:06:59. > :07:03.also the experience of all those children eating together, learning
:07:04. > :07:08.together, growing up together. Isn't that what our communities and life
:07:09. > :07:13.is all about? There's one other thing that we very proud of which is
:07:14. > :07:18.not that expensive but could make such a difference. Our children are
:07:19. > :07:25.bright intelligent, lots of ideas and imagination. They go to school
:07:26. > :07:30.to have that creativity unblocked. I think all our children should get a
:07:31. > :07:34.chance in music, art, drama, so there is going to be a pupil arts
:07:35. > :07:40.premium for every child in every school to learn a musical instrument
:07:41. > :07:48.whilst they are in school. Again, that is unlocking the potential.
:07:49. > :07:51.That is very important. As they go through their education years,
:07:52. > :07:58.demands and needs change. What this government has done is cut down or
:07:59. > :08:02.cut altogether the education maintenance allowance. It cut
:08:03. > :08:06.maintenance grants for students going to university. It increased
:08:07. > :08:11.fees in colleges and in universities. It is now up to ?9,000
:08:12. > :08:15.in most cases. Do you know what the result of that is? Fewer students
:08:16. > :08:21.from working communities going to university. Fulfilling their dream
:08:22. > :08:25.because they cannot afford it and cannot countenance the debt at the
:08:26. > :08:31.end of it. So we thought about this a great deal. What are we to do? Are
:08:32. > :08:35.we to say that we will let it carry on as it is and leave University as
:08:36. > :08:41.the preserve of those who can afford it? I don't agree with that at all.
:08:42. > :08:47.If I junk person has an ambition to develop a skill and become an
:08:48. > :08:51.engineer, become a teacher and become anything they want to be, it
:08:52. > :08:57.is up to all of us to provide college places, apprenticeships,
:08:58. > :09:04.opportunities and university places for all of them. It is going to be a
:09:05. > :09:10.big call to do it but I'm determined that we do it. We will and
:09:11. > :09:17.university fees, bring back the TMA and bring back maintenance grants
:09:18. > :09:21.for those who need it. Because a young person who wants to achieve in
:09:22. > :09:27.life does their best but does not make it will feel very frustrated
:09:28. > :09:31.that they could not go to college, could not do what they wanted to do.
:09:32. > :09:39.Thwarted in life. It is not right. We all lose out because we've lost
:09:40. > :09:44.that nurse, lost that engineer, lost that teacher because they never had
:09:45. > :09:47.the chance. I want a chance for every child, every young person in
:09:48. > :09:52.every part of our country. That is what Labour will bring. That sense
:09:53. > :10:01.of doing things together for the good of all of us. I'm very proud of
:10:02. > :10:08.that part of our manifesto. Ronnie spoke about health and about what
:10:09. > :10:12.has been achieved. If we carry on like this. What kind of national
:10:13. > :10:18.health service would we have? Think about how it came about. Communities
:10:19. > :10:23.got together, supported the idea that you could, in a society, have a
:10:24. > :10:26.health service free at the point of use as a human right. A Labour
:10:27. > :10:34.government, after the Second World War. It achieved it. The most
:10:35. > :10:38.civilised thing about our society. Our proudest achievement. I'm
:10:39. > :10:42.determined that it will be a Labour government that properly funds are
:10:43. > :10:47.NHS so that you won't have the idea of the corridor nurse caring for
:10:48. > :10:52.patients because there's nobody else to look after them because there is
:10:53. > :10:59.a staffing shortage. We won't have the waiting times and waiting lists.
:11:00. > :11:06.You will only deal with that by putting money into the NHS.
:11:07. > :11:10.Privatisation will not bring about a better service but a better profit
:11:11. > :11:17.for those who want to take it out of the service. It will be us who do
:11:18. > :11:24.that. It is also the social care crisis. A million mainly elderly
:11:25. > :11:28.people waiting for social care. They cannot get it. It is not available.
:11:29. > :11:35.What happens is somebody gives up work. They give their care
:11:36. > :11:39.altogether. Not because they don't love them. They do. But I do think
:11:40. > :11:46.it has to be done by the community as a whole. If we don't do that it
:11:47. > :11:49.is women who have careers lost altogether because they have to stay
:11:50. > :11:56.at home or care for somebody. We are going to put money straight into the
:11:57. > :12:02.social care system, ?2 billion, but also set up a national care service
:12:03. > :12:09.because in this lottery of life you get cancer, as sadly, Ronnie did,
:12:10. > :12:13.but has recovered. You get treated by the NHS and that is absolutely
:12:14. > :12:18.right. But if you have somebody who suffers dementia then the family is
:12:19. > :12:23.expected to find the money to support them. Surely, cancer and
:12:24. > :12:29.dementia should be equally supported by the principle of a health service
:12:30. > :12:35.completely for all. I'm not sure everybody in the Tory party fully
:12:36. > :12:37.understand this concept. They seem to have great difficulty getting
:12:38. > :12:42.their heads around that. The other thing I would say on health, I see
:12:43. > :12:45.it everywhere because I believe it very strongly and passionately.
:12:46. > :12:49.There is a mental health crisis going on in Britain. People are
:12:50. > :12:54.going through appalling stress. Young people feel isolated, alone,
:12:55. > :12:59.in a dark and dangerous place. Sadly some of them take their own lives as
:13:00. > :13:04.a result. We must properly fund our mental health services, and the idea
:13:05. > :13:08.that you wait six months to get support therapy and the other thing
:13:09. > :13:14.we can all do, support people going through those crises. The stigma
:13:15. > :13:17.must end surrounding mental health. Support those going through a
:13:18. > :13:25.crisis, help them get through it. We will fund it but we need to change
:13:26. > :13:32.attitudes in our community. Today we are launching our housing manifesto
:13:33. > :13:37.at Derwent College. Labour's new deal on housing. I spoke to a new
:13:38. > :13:43.group of building worker apprentices. Bricklaying, plumbing,
:13:44. > :13:48.all the skills that are necessary. I told them to study hard and work
:13:49. > :13:53.hard because we are going to need you to build the houses that a
:13:54. > :13:57.Labour government will build. We need your skills to conquer the
:13:58. > :14:04.housing crisis in Britain. Bring stability to it, give opportunities
:14:05. > :14:08.for young people to buy homes in the communities, counsels a chance to
:14:09. > :14:15.build the houses necessary and bring some regulation to the private
:14:16. > :14:18.rented sector and some security. We are the best richest country in the
:14:19. > :14:31.world and I think we can do a lot better in education and health. Our
:14:32. > :14:35.manifesto is comprehensive and something to be excited about.
:14:36. > :14:40.Nobody can say in the general election there was not a choice put
:14:41. > :14:44.before the British people. There is absolutely a choice. You can have a
:14:45. > :14:47.Tory Government again, you can have a Tory Government again cutting
:14:48. > :14:53.services and all the other things. You can have a Tory Government that
:14:54. > :15:03.carries on as it is at the present time or you can have Labour MPs like
:15:04. > :15:07.Ronnie. You can have our fantastic elected representatives like Dave,
:15:08. > :15:17.who is sadly stepping down as the MP. Why are you doing that, Dave? I
:15:18. > :15:20.want to say a big thank you to Dave Anderson for fantastic work in
:15:21. > :15:28.Parliament and all the work he has done. As a union representative and
:15:29. > :15:34.an MP, a great friend and a great supporter. Your work is not done.
:15:35. > :15:38.I've got plans for you. And I thank Vera for the work she's done as
:15:39. > :15:42.police and crime commission. The way she stood up with all the other
:15:43. > :15:48.police and crime to try and save police services. There's been huge
:15:49. > :15:53.cuts made, 20,000 police officers lost their jobs across the country.
:15:54. > :15:58.It is simply not right. Look at how wonderful and brave the police were
:15:59. > :15:59.in Manchester and London dealing with those terrible events. We need
:16:00. > :16:11.more police officers, not less. Thank you for what you have done to
:16:12. > :16:14.support the needs of women in the community and the way the police
:16:15. > :16:22.must respond to those who are victims of domestic violence. Ian
:16:23. > :16:31.lay very is standing behind me. No, there is no competition here! Ian,
:16:32. > :16:34.thank you. He is jointly coordinating our general election
:16:35. > :16:39.campaign and what a fantastic job he is doing. They wrote us off, didn't
:16:40. > :16:42.they? They write us off at their peril. Ian and Andrew Quinn have
:16:43. > :16:48.done an incredible job getting this campaign going, and we have rallies
:16:49. > :16:51.and meetings all over the country, thousands of people coming towards
:16:52. > :16:54.us. I want you to do this for the last few days of this campaign.
:16:55. > :17:06.There will be some clipboards here today. I don't know where they are.
:17:07. > :17:09.Yes, over there! Thank you. There are clipboards everywhere. Before
:17:10. > :17:16.you go, sign the clipboard. Don't forget to butcher a phone number and
:17:17. > :17:19.your e-mail for, and help us on Thursday. Help us get Ronnie elected
:17:20. > :17:23.and help us win in all those places, because we need to win to get a
:17:24. > :17:29.Labour government. But we also need to do something else. We have got
:17:30. > :17:32.tomorrow and Wednesday and Thursday is polling day. Have a conversation
:17:33. > :17:37.with everybody. What kind of country do you want to live in? What kind of
:17:38. > :17:40.world do you want to live in? Do you want a government that will say to
:17:41. > :17:52.Donald Trump, you're wrong about climate change? Dear Donald, sorry,
:17:53. > :17:57.you're wrong? Think on it, because if we destroy and pollute our
:17:58. > :18:01.planet, there is no hiding place. However rich you are, you will still
:18:02. > :18:08.be affected. There is only one planet. We have to work together to
:18:09. > :18:16.defend it. I would say that to him. But it's also about all of us.
:18:17. > :18:21.Communities created the National Health Service. Communities defended
:18:22. > :18:23.the miners during the darkest days of the miners strike. Communities
:18:24. > :18:29.came together to support those suffering when the steel industry
:18:30. > :18:32.was under threat. We have a Government that passers-by on the
:18:33. > :18:37.other side. We don't pass by on the other side in life. We support each
:18:38. > :18:41.other. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a Government that said actually,
:18:42. > :18:50.everybody in every community in every part of this country matters?
:18:51. > :18:54.Everybody has a right to decent services and decent opportunities.
:18:55. > :19:03.So when you cast your vote on Thursday, think on this. We have
:19:04. > :19:10.this chance to change the story. The financial crisis of eight years ago
:19:11. > :19:13.should not be visited upon the poorest and more vulnerable, should
:19:14. > :19:17.not be paid for by frozen wages and public sector workers. Should not be
:19:18. > :19:24.paid for by closing library 's swimming pools, but should be paid
:19:25. > :19:28.for by investment. And that will, yes, result in tax rises for big
:19:29. > :19:34.corporations and the wealthiest in our society. 95% will not pay any
:19:35. > :19:40.more, but we were all benefit. It is also something we are saying
:19:41. > :19:44.together. We want a future for all our children. We want their
:19:45. > :19:48.creativity unlock. We want prosperity to be shared. We want a
:19:49. > :19:53.decent trading relationship with Europe as we leave the European
:19:54. > :19:58.Union. We want all of those things. We have the determination, the IDF
:19:59. > :20:04.and the spirit to do it. We are not going to do it alone. Polling day is
:20:05. > :20:08.the day to elect people and start that process of change. But when we
:20:09. > :20:13.work together as communities, we achieve things together. That is how
:20:14. > :20:18.we have got this far as a party. Our membership has now gone up to 600000
:20:19. > :20:23.and still rising. That's because people are inspired by what we are
:20:24. > :20:27.offering. I want to say to you, thank you for being here. Thank you
:20:28. > :20:30.for coming out in the rain. I was told it was 29 degrees and the sun
:20:31. > :20:37.was shining, but that was just Ian Lavery. So we are here today to
:20:38. > :20:40.thank you for your support for Ronnie and ask you to give it your
:20:41. > :20:47.role on Thursday to get a Labour government elected. We will show
:20:48. > :20:49.what we are made of and what all of us together can achieve. Thank you
:20:50. > :21:48.very much! The Palace of Westminster, with its
:21:49. > :21:54.many stone figures, is the ultimate Gothic revival building. It was
:21:55. > :22:00.Augustus Pugin, a genius in Gothic design, who created this visual
:22:01. > :22:01.feast of stonework paraphernalia that we see today. There are