Jeremy Corbyn Election 2017

Steve, Steve, Sofia, thank you very much, and to all of Birmingham,

thank you for being here tonight. This is the first time we have done

a rally all over the country for our party. Thank you for being here

tonight. CHEERING Thank you Steve Coogan for being the

compere. They get up for Steve. -- big it up. Sofia, thanks what you

have said and for standing up against the racists when they came

for you. And whilst we are here in Birmingham tonight, fantastic

evening here, can we say hello to the rally is going on all over the

country? CHEERING Can you dig it up for Warrington? --

big. And for our rally taking place in Brighton. CHEERING

Euro I'm sure it is bright yellow macro I'm

-- I'm sure it is bright and warm and sunny in Brighton, it always is.

Say hello to everyone in Scotland, don't forget to vote Labour in

Scotland on Thursday and everywhere else. Can you also say, hello

London. Thursday is election day and we are almost at the end of this

amazing campaign. But I've still got about six more rallies tomorrow. We

are leaving no place untouched and no stone unturned and we are going

all-out to win this election. And because in this election there

is a very very clear choice. Five more years of a Tory government. I

don't want five more years of a Tory government, and try to explain what

will happen if you get five more years of a Tory government -- I'm

trying to explain. Some of the people in the crowd are slightly

ahead of me. LAUGHTER Thank you. There are many people

living in great poverty in Great Britain, many Jordan, that is wrong

and immoral and very unnecessary. -- many children. If they carry on with

their policies, these children will not get the policies and chances in

life that they deserve and how many of them will be even poorer after

five more years of the Tory government, and how longer will the

waiting lists be in our A departments and hospitals and how

much more overcrowded Will our school classes B after five more

years of a Tory government. How many more people will be sleeping on the

streets of our towns and cities because of a government who doesn't

care and ignores their needs for them how much more can people take a

vague -- government that is only interested in the wealthiest of this

country and are not interested in the majority, walking by on the

other side while poverty increases, while the opportunities the young

people are denied. Surely, we can as a society do something different.

CHEERING The financial crisis of 2008, 2009,

was visited upon this country and the Tories and the Lib Dems in

coalition did what? They slashed funding for public services and

froze public sector pay and laid off ambulance workers and firefighters

and police officers and nurses, every single group lost out. Every

community lost services and facilities. And do you know what? At

the other end of the scale, were the cuts made for the very richest? Were

there in increased taxes for the big businesses and corporations? Was

there any effort to make those at the top and pay for the crisis? You

know the answer. The answer was the people have suffered, whilst

inequality has grown in our society. I tell you what, this election was

called in an atmosphere of the government saying it is the

government standing for election and we are a strong and stable

government. They don't say that very often now.

And they just imagined everything was going to be all over why June

the 8th. I tell you what, they underestimated us, didn't they? They

underestimated us. They underestimated us and the campaign

we would mount. And do you know what the turning point was? When we

produced this. For the many, not the few, for the many, not the few. I'm

not finished yet! Thank you! What we do in this manifesto, and I really

do pay tribute to all those who put so much effort into writing it, all

those people who contributed in the Labour Party, in the trade unions,

in hundreds of voluntary organisations, giving as their views

and ideas and opinions. And fundamentally it goes like this.

Young people are our future, than people give us everything, we must

give them all the best chances we can. And that's why I'm so proud

that so many have registered to vote for the first time. And we say to

those far too young to vote and those parents of very small

children, a Labour government will provide 30 hours per week free for

every child to go into a preschool place. A Labour government will

properly fund our primary schools so the headteachers don't have to have

collections at the school gate to try to pay the bills. I pay my

taxes, you pay your taxes, we want them for every child to receive the

best they can. But do you know, hungry children don't learn, hungry

children can't concentrate. And so this government takes away the

limited free school meals there are. We will provide a free school meals

for every child in every primary school. And do you know what, they

will eat it together, and in children there is the most wonderful

sense of imagination and creativity. Let's let that imagination flow. So

we have decided we will introduce a pupil arts premium so every child in

every school can learn a musical instrument. Because Birmingham has

given us such great musicians. I won't go through them all because I

might need somebody out and you would all get upset and I don't want

anybody to be upset tonight. OK. And later on in the School life there

are important things to do. Very important things to do and that is

what youngsters get in the wake of college and university education.

Thank you very much. And can I say, thank you to so many musicians who

have come on board, so many people from so many different cultural

walks of life have come on board to support Labour in this election,

thank you very much. But I'm also determined, very determined, that

every youngster should get a chance to get an apprenticeship, go to

college or go to university. And so we will end student fees, restore

student grants and restore the EMEA. These things are crucial for every

youngster to get a chance in life. Those that achieve achieve for

themselves but they also achieved for all of us. A young person who

wants to be an engineer, who wants to be a nurse, a doctor, cannot do

it because they can't afford it. They lose, we lose, we all lose.

When you invest in young people you invest for the future of all of us.

One of our proudest ever achievements was the foundation of

the National Health Service free at the point of use for all people,

fundamental human right for all. We will fund it properly, we will not

leave a million people waiting for social care and we will not walk by

on the other side while those suffer, often alone, through a

mental health crisis. We have to be a society that cares for and

includes. People say to me, all this is a wish list. No, it's not, it is

a programme, it's an agenda and do you know what, we are going to carry

it out. And it does cost, of course. But we

live in a country of great riches and we also live in a country of

increasing poverty. 6 million people earning less than the living wage, a

million on zero hours contracts, million on zero hours contracts,

many of our children growing up in overcrowded homes in the great

poverty. Councils like Birmingham and others do their very best to

build the homes we need for the future. But we have a government

interested in homes for the wealthy interested in homes for the wealthy

and homes for the few. So let us resolve to do things differently.

Invest in education, invest in health, invest in housing, invest in

jobs, invest in the future for all of us. And this election on this

programme gives us all an opportunity to change the political

direction of this country. Look around you are here tonight in

Birmingham. Look around you at the crowds there in London, Brighton,

Warrington, look at each other, at your faces, who we are, we are

young, old, black, white, gay, straight, men, women, everything, we

are to unity, people doing things together! Because that is what this

election is about. On the one hand you have got the Conservative Party

who Theresa May doesn't like to mention very often. And you have got

a popular movement, you have got people coming out because they want

to do things differently. So in the last day and a half until the

polling stations open, 36 hours or so until they open, can I ask you

all, have those conversations wherever you go. Ask people what

kind of country, what kind of world, what kind of society they want to

live in. Do they want us to go down the road of the greater gap between

the richest and the poorest? Do they want to go down the road where our

public services are underfunded? Our young people have unrequited

ambition and our older people are isolated and alone for lack of

support? Or do they want to do something different?

Business rate issues particularly impacting, independent once, but I'm

interested to hear from you, not me tell you what your problems are and

we will see what we can do about them. We have a few different pub

landlords here. And the local businesses from George Street and

the local area. We have a pub up the road, our value has gone from 23,002

103. A other pubs around,