Jeremy Corbyn Election 2017

Thank you, Gateshead! Thank you, the North East. Thank

you, those that have come across the river from Newcastle. The bridge

unites us, the politics unites us, the future gives us hope in unity. A

big thank you to all of you for being here tonight, braving the rain

which is very unusual in these parts. And thank if I Mayall of my

team, all of our Labour head office team and all of our team in Labour

North here in the North East in Newcastle for all the work they've

done in this incredible election campaign that we've put together.

When this started seven weeks ago almost, they said well, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah OK what are your policies. Then we came out with our

manifesto for the many, not the few! And what we have done is put

together an offer, an offer to people of a real alternative to the

arid future that a Tory Government would offer us. We have put together

something that I think is quite remarkable. We are saying many quite

blunt terms, those that caused the financial crisis of 2008-09, have

left us with seven years of cuts, seven years of closures, seven years

of frozen wages, seven years of under-funded schools, hospital

waiting lists and so much more. They've sapped the spirit of so many

spirit. It is time for a change APPLAUSE

And that change is yes on some policy issues and I will mention

some in a moment. It is also a change on how we do our

politics. How we relate to each other, how we talk to each other and

how we support each other and give hope. And what attitude a government

takes in that, this region has suffered from the ravages of the

great depression in the 1930s, suffered from the ravages of

Thatcherite economics in the 1980s CROWD BOOING

Seen the brutality of how the miners were treated and the brutality of

privatisation and the loss of jobs in so many different industries, one

thing in a sense sums it up sums up what this government and what other

Tory governments have been about, when the steel industry got into a

crisis because of dumped steel and other issues, those that thought

they could asset strip the industry in Redcar got away with it because

of the Tory government. I will tell you this, a Labour

government were on stand-by seeing an industry destroyed, wooden stand

by to see those jobs taken away, wouldn't stand-by and allow

communities to suffer so much. We instead would invest and investment

is what is the key to it. We should start with investment for the

future, the future is our children, the future are our young people. The

future is their heirs and what they can contribute to make this world a

better and safer place. We start at the very beginning, we start the

children improve schools, our offer, 30 hours a week for every child in

every part of the country in preschool facilities free. So that

as in life we can do things together, let our children enjoy

those wonderful preschool years together, their first memories will

be of doing things together, children from all around, children

from different backgrounds learning and doing things together, that

surely is what makes humans strong and support each other. And then you

look at the crisis facing the risk goes at the moment. Headteachers

desperate to know what to do, desperate to know what teacher they

will have to dismiss, which teaching assistant they will have too asked

to leave, in secondary schools, which subjects they will have to

close down and cut off. And then they ask the Government where is the

money coming from, what are you doing press and they say there is a

new funding formula, if you don't have enough money then have a

collection amongst the parents. I'm really sorry about this but it's not

on. APPLAUSE

We pay our taxes that there should be education for all children and if

you rely on the parents that can afford it to fund the schools that

can raise the money, look what happens a few years down the line,

some schools have got a lot, some schools have got a lot less, some

children have got more, some children have got less. Sorry

governments but you are totally wrong. You have to put the money and

for all children, but do you know what, children going to our schools

must learn of course, they must learn all of those important

subjects but it's very hard to learn when you're hungry, it's very hard

to concentrate when are hungry. The Tories propose to take away the

limited number of free school meals being offered by the coalition

government and replace them with breakfasts at around 7p per head, I

don't know when the last time any of them went out to buy breakfast, I've

never seen a breakfast for 7p. It's an outrage, disgrace and an insult

so what are we going to Lou? Something a bit different. A very

bit different, we are going to make sure that every child in every

primary school gets a school lunch every day with all of the other

children and it will be free and open to all of them so again, that

experience of doing things together which I'm very keen on and very

proud of, children's schools have wonderful creative abilities and

imagination. The brain is like a sponge waiting to suck up ideas and

waiting to give us all of their hopes on joints and imagination, it

is of course the subjects we know about Burt about creativity and that

is why APPLAUSE And that is why I'm very proud of

the inclusion in our manifesto of a pupil premium for the arts are every

child in every school APPLAUSE Will be able to learn a musical

instrument. And again it has the effect on the

wonderful imagination and you know what, we will also create a quite

big creative fund for the whole country so that wonderful places

like the theatres will be properly supported and above all, that

creativity music means that our musicians need a place to rehearse

and places to perform and we understand that and we're doing all

we can to improve those facilities and then later on as young people go

through the education career, yes ideas growing demands grow and needs

group, but their choices should not be restricted. Either by parental

income or the postcode they come from.

APPLAUSE And so we will bring back the

education maintenance allowance so that youngsters will not be

constrained in going on to further education, and then those that want

to go to university, those that want to go to college should not be put

off by the idea of a massive debt at the end. My heart bleeds for

students who are going to be an enormous debt because of the levels

of fees at the present time, we have looked into it carefully and we've

decided it is in the interests of the individual that they achieve the

best in their lives, it is also in the interest of all of us that

everyone achieves the best of their lives and so so we will abolished

June fees and bring back a maintenance allowance at University

because I want us to have icy Nissan is an investment in the future for

loss, unlock the potential and unlock that creativity. We heard the

one fall remarks of women engineers and what they achieve, they'll

struggle to achieve those things, what a waste it is, when we prevent

large numbers of our young people we all lose and they all learners and

we are all poorer as a society. Achievement enriches all of us. And

I'm determined that we will have an education system worthier and the

National education service to ensure all of this is delivered.

APPLAUSE One of the greatest achievements of

my party when it has been in government and I believe of this

country is the principle that health care free at the point of use is a

human rights for all of us. It is not the case in all parts of the

world, if you were in the United States you'd be looking at each

other thinking what level of health insurance you had got, whether or

not if you had cancer and you would be treated, whether you could go to

a doctor or curtains, that is not a choice that is available here

because we have an NHS, but I tell you this, if this governments

remains in office, what will be the problems in the NHS in five years'

time, how much will the debts be in each hospital, what will the level

of wages before skilled doctors nurses and technicians in hospitals

already having had several years of frozen wages? It's not acceptable

that the NHS should be treated in this way so on day one we will

suspend the sustainability of transformation plans.

APPLAUSE And look again at the issue of

national health service, and investing the money in the next

Labour government because I want there to be that health service for

all time. It will last as long as we can fight for it. But there are

other aspects that have to be looked at and at this very moment there are

a million people waiting for some kind of social care, often times in

great distress, sometimes those with special needs. A million people

waiting, that is simply wrong. It is very well for a Tory government to

do one after the other, sorry that is not acceptable, we will

immediately put emergency funding into social care to remove those

people from the waiting list and we will set up a national care service.

At the moment there's something wrong, if you suffer from Cannes to

get treated and supported correctly however if you suffer from dementia

and need that care it is not the same at all, we support education,

we support health in all of its aspects.

APPLAUSE I also would say this, Ian mentioned

it earlier, the question of the mental health crisis, let's

collectively create we won't make rude remarks, jokes or stigmatise

those who are going through mental health 's conditions or stress, we

will reach out and help people instead. And in governments we will

find our mental health services so the supporters there so again we

have that inclusive approach to our society. But election is about

choices, it is about services I mentioned including the housing

programme today where we will build a large number of council houses as

well as affordable homes for sale including the private rented sector,

these are all crucial things. But it is also about economic... So many

other part of this country have seen no investment since the coal

industry was shut down by Margaret Thatcher and her friends. That's the

correct response. The opportunities for investment having missed out,

despite George Osborne 's claims no doubt he will write it in the

Evening Standard sometime, we will establish that there will be a

national investment bank ten years, ?500 billion spread across every

region of England and in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland so it

will ensure proper investment and I absolutely support a new Crossrail

of the North from Newcastle across Manchester. Because it is about

investments in high-tech industries and jobs. Look at what's local

authorities have done to their enterprise systems, surely we need a

government that has the same approach of investing in our futures

and our economy and not leaving that to else.

An awful lot of jobs on the north-east depend on trade in Europe

and we will make sure there is a trade access there. But the

selection also is about how we divide up the cake. How we divide

our national resources, public sector workers on a pay freeze, 6

million people earning less than a living wage and a billion people in

zero hour contracts, many people are going to the most appalling stress

because of a combination of benefits frozen or cut, disability frozen or

cut and many people go through the terrible stress of trying to

survive. On the other end of the scale this seems to be a magic

manage true. That's monetary magically cuts tax for the biggest

corporations, seems unaware of the money that is siphoned off in havens

around the world and I'm concerned about the lack of investment in the

database services that we all need support and enjoy so yes there will

be tax rises are not for 95% of the population. Those with the broader

shoulders will be asked to pay so the rest can benefit from decent

services that renewed. This is for the selection is fundamentally about

there is a creative support of community that does things together,

look at the way that they can come together in the face of adversity,

supporting each other and changing things. Look at the gatherings in

London tonight in exactly the same mood. It is about supporting each

other, and the last few days that we have available, think about the

choice, think about this country, re-elect this Tory governments and

it is a choice between Labour and the Tories. We are fighting the way

as a Labour Party to form a Labour government. Five more years of Tory

government and maybe a million more children living in poverty. Hammy

libraries close or school classes overcrowded, how many people living

in desperate poverty, how many people either end of their tether

spitting on the streets -- sleeping on the streets, the answer is we

should not and we will not. And so what I ask you to do is understand

how things ever happen in politics. Six weeks ago we started our

campaign on issues such as integration and fundamentalist

Islam, at the time many people disapproved, at the time many people

said it was completely