General Election Party Election Broadcasts: Labour

When I think of what we used to do in the north-east -

there was shipbuilding, the steelworks.

The lack of hope among the people is there,

the feeling that nobody cares.

The Valleys of South Wales have also got the same massive deprivation.

There's no coalmines in the Yorkshire area,

Lancashire, Scotland.

All are the same and facing the same problems and issues

that we face in this community.

It was a place that was vibrant.

It was a place where everybody cared for everybody else.

It was cleaner, because we all worked together.

It was brighter.

We don't want these communities to keep on dying on their feet.

Let's get some money into them, let's reinvigorate them.

This is our chance, this is our last chance.

Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party can do it for us,

and I know they will.

Please take that chance and go out and vote.

We've got the zero-hour contracts now,

which are really blackmailing people,

because if you're an agency worker you're not...

You know, if you say, "I can't turn up for work today..."

You know, you're blackmailed into saying, "If you don't turn up today,

"then we're not going to give you any work."

The conditions are very bad.

I was taken on as self-employed, delivering parcels,

and the conditions was terrible, because you had to wait to the

night before and wait for a text to see if you were on a shift

or if you weren't on a shift.

So you had to wait for them to get in contact with you

to see if you were going to be out the next day working or not.

I'm an electrician, I mainly work on the building sites in the city,

any large industrial site, office block refurbs.

I get work constantly just through agencies.

Agency is the only way I can get work now.

That means that I've no employment rights, I can be laid off

any time, I don't get overtime rates of pay.

I'm a care worker.

We don't get paid for our travel.

Yeah?

We go from client to client. We're out from, let's say,

eight in the morning. We could be out till nine at night.

But we are only doing, like, maybe five jobs.

Everybody, whatever their contract, will have equal rights at work -

sick pay, holiday pay and a real living wage.

We will end zero-hours contracts.

No-one will be forced into bogus self-employment.

The minimum wage will be a real living wage of £10 an hour.

But the big news will be the National Investment Bank.

This will bring sustainable industries and secure jobs

to the areas that have been neglected for far too long.

No matter how you measure it, no other European country

has the kind of inequality we have.

There is nowhere else in Europe where the rich are so greedy,

where they take such a large share of everything there is to be

shared out.

Our education system is the most unequal education system

in Europe.

Our housing has become the most expensive in Europe

for the lowest-quality housing.

We have some of the lowest-paid jobs and the most precarious jobs

and the lowest rights.

Nowhere and no-one should be held back.

Labour will bring real jobs, security and hope.

And we'll make a fairer society, too.

CHILDREN LAUGH

SIRENS BLARE

We shall have a fair tax system.

No tax increase for the great majority,

but the richest will pay their share.

A fairer society is happier, more united, more efficient.

Labour does not accept food bank Britain,

where the most vulnerable are driven into poverty

and many more have a struggle to get by.

Don't be put off by some of the trivia in the media

in this election.

Labour stands with you, the people.

Let's work together, so that all can live with security,

in peace and dignity.

We have one short, precious life.

We should all have the chance to make the most of it.