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I will try and do this one better. Put a lot of pressure on the drill. | :00:59. | :01:33. | |
That was better. Why is it necessary for you to visit as many places as | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
you are? It's important for any political leader to get out and | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
about during an election campaign and talk to as many people as | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
possible. That is what I always do during elections and what I am | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
determined to do in this one. My message is that Thursday gives us | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
the chance to make it positive statement about the kind of country | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
we want Scotland to be. We know that five more years of the Tories, if | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
left to their own devices, will mean more cuts in public services, more | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
people pushed into poverty and a risk to jobs with their extreme form | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
of Brexit. But we now have an opportunity to hold the Tories in | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
check. The polls have narrowed in the rest of the UK and whether or | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
not Theresa May increases the majority could come down to the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
outcome in Scotland. So let's not send Tory MPs to be a rubber stamp | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
for more austerity, let's send strong SNP MPs to stand up for | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Scotland and make our voice heard. You set a positive message. Alistair | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Darling has been reiterating that the SNP is a divisive force. Is that | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
a hard label to shake off? All of the opposition parties are obsessed | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
with talking about the SNP because they are ashamed of their own | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
records and their own policies. We know that the Tories plan more cuts. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
They plan an extreme Brexit and their cuts to welfare will push more | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
people, including children, into poverty. We want an alternative and | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Thursday gives us an opportunity to say that that is not the vision of | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Scotland that we have. We want a fair and equal Scotland where we see | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
investment in our public services and an alternative to austerity. | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
Only the SNP has the strength to stand up to the Tories and take them | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
on. The SNP was first or second in every constituency in Scotland in | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
the last election, so voting Labour one Liberal Democrat just risks | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
splitting the anti-Tory vote and letting them in by the back door. If | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
you want to make we don't send rubber-stamps for austerity back to | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
Westminster and instead have strong voices standing up for fairness, | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
make sure you elect SNP MPs. You mentioned the Labour Party. So you | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
will not be looking to do any sort of deal with them? Jeremy Corbyn | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
doesn't seem keen. I have always said if the arithmetic allowed it, I | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
would want the SNP to be part of a progressive alternative to the Tory | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
government that invested in public services and protected pensions and | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
policies that lift people out of poverty. But the polls and the rest | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
of the UK still suggest the Tories will win this election. But it is no | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
longer inevitable that Theresa May increases her majority, because she | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
has been exposed throughout this campaign as being weak and evasive | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
with no answers to basic questions. Pollsters are now saying that | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
whether or not she increases her majority could get down to the | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
outcome in Scotland. So let's not throw Theresa May a lifeline by | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
boosting her majority. Let's put Scotland's interests first. Let's | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
get strong SNP MPs to the House of Commons so we can continue to stand | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
up for Scotland and stand up for the kind of country we want to be. | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
The polls show us head and shoulders ahead of our rivals but I take | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
nothing for granted because we should not take a single vote for | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
granted. This is an important election, it will define the kind of | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
country we are. Let's make sure the kind of country we become is not the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
one the Tories want to see but is instead that positive Scotland and | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
values fairness and equality. Let's not boost Theresa May's majority | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
when she's on the road. Let's keep Scotland's voice strong at | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Westminster because that is how to stand up to the Cape -- type of | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
country we want to see. Thank you for serenading us. | :05:22. | :05:32. |