Scottish Parliament Election 2016: 05/04/2016

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0:00:02 > 0:00:04GENTLE ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC

0:00:10 > 0:00:13What do you do in your job all day?

0:00:13 > 0:00:15I try to help people.

0:00:15 > 0:00:19But my favourite thing, my absolute favourite thing to do is to

0:00:19 > 0:00:22make sure that kids like you get the best possible chance in life.

0:00:22 > 0:00:26That's my number-one priority and that's what my party stands for.

0:00:26 > 0:00:29Why is there a Labour Party?

0:00:29 > 0:00:31To help people. To help working people.

0:00:31 > 0:00:34We want everybody in the country to have a decent job.

0:00:34 > 0:00:36But if you're going to get a decent job,

0:00:36 > 0:00:38you have to get a decent education, right?

0:00:38 > 0:00:41So we've got to make sure we spend lots of money on schools so that

0:00:41 > 0:00:44when you leave school you can get the job that you want to have.

0:00:44 > 0:00:46What are you going to be when you grow up?

0:00:46 > 0:00:48In charge of Doctor Who.

0:00:48 > 0:00:51In charge of Doctor Who?! That's a great job!

0:00:51 > 0:00:54GENTLE ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC

0:01:00 > 0:01:04Will I get paid the same amount of money as Lucas when I grow up?

0:01:04 > 0:01:07Well, if you were grown-up now, no.

0:01:07 > 0:01:10For every pound that you'd earn, you'd only get 89 pence.

0:01:10 > 0:01:13So that's unfair, that's 11 pence difference just because

0:01:13 > 0:01:16he's a boy and you're a girl. So I'm going to work to change that.

0:01:16 > 0:01:19I'm going to make sure that in the future, boys and girls will earn

0:01:19 > 0:01:21the same amount of money for the same job that they do.

0:01:21 > 0:01:23Is your job really hard?

0:01:24 > 0:01:28Sometimes it's hard, but all the time it's really, really exciting.

0:01:28 > 0:01:30It's an absolute privilege to do what I do,

0:01:30 > 0:01:33but it's my job to make sure the government do the right thing.

0:01:33 > 0:01:35And the Scottish Parliament's got lots of powers,

0:01:35 > 0:01:39and more powers are coming to the Scottish Parliament, so if we want

0:01:39 > 0:01:42to, we can make Scotland a fairer and better place for everyone.

0:01:42 > 0:01:46What job do you think I might do when I'm older?

0:01:47 > 0:01:50You could be absolutely anything that you want to be,

0:01:50 > 0:01:53whether that's an engineer or a computer coder -

0:01:53 > 0:01:57somebody who makes computer games - a writer, an athlete, a doctor

0:01:57 > 0:01:59or a scientist.

0:01:59 > 0:02:03And if you can't do any of those things, you can be a politician!

0:02:03 > 0:02:07Scottish Labour is changing, and under my leadership there'll be no

0:02:07 > 0:02:11doubt what the Scottish Labour Party stands for and who we stand with.

0:02:11 > 0:02:14I believe in the potential of every single child in Scotland

0:02:14 > 0:02:15and I want them to get on in life,

0:02:15 > 0:02:17I want them to achieve that potential

0:02:17 > 0:02:20and I want it to be determined by their talent, their potential

0:02:20 > 0:02:21and how hard they work,

0:02:21 > 0:02:25not how much their parents earn or what school they went to.

0:02:30 > 0:02:31I want every single child in Scotland

0:02:31 > 0:02:34to have the best possible start in life.