14/02/2018 Party Political Broadcasts - Labour Party

This is my little boy. He's not a

headline.

headline. He's not Joshua, stabbed

to death in a club, a statistic.

He's my little boy.

Growing up,

didn't really look up to anybody

myself. Watching the kids go through

the same now, something needed to.

There is nothing around here for the

kids. The age group has just been

forgotten about.

We took over the old school

building, a very busy youth centre.

Full every night. I was in there for

18 years and it was valuable. For

the funding has been cut, it is so

sad.

Over six or seven years, seeing the

young people just getting more and

more fed up, just walking about in

gangs and that.

We are so used to all the stuff that

is happening, petrol bombings and

stuff, messing in people's houses.

People are getting murdered. I don't

even see police, I don't see no one.

Seven, nearly eight, years of

consistent cuts have devastated the

police service. One obvious thing as

police officers have disappeared

from the streets, from safer

neighbourhood team some proactive

patrol. There are very few police

officers now.

We are one of the wealthiest

countries in the world and cannot

provide basic security services. You

get burgled, please might come four

or five days later. You are

resulted, police do not have time to

investigate. People are being left

or to their own devices.

There was nobody to talk to these

kids in their area. We have about

the kids to train. We started

charging them, some of them could

not afford it. We have seen a

massive improvement in their

behaviour.

We have a service to help young

people after school I was, reduce

crime, reduce anti-social behaviour.

Why can't that be something the

Government would like to give back?

This is not right. The public pay

the money underfunding is not going

into the police. As a police

officer, we cannot do our job at the

moment because we have not got the

support.

I feel so strongly about that, that

is why I have left.

The cuts are

causing so many young people to lose

their lives. They have no one to

turn to. The social workers have

been cut, the family centres have

been cut. What support is therefore

our communities?

It may happen to a young person I am

very close with, and I feel for me

the impact of that will have me feel

like I want to withdraw from my job,

it would make me feel I have not

done enough for the young people. I

could do a lot more, but without the

resources you are fighting a losing

battle.

When you lose a child, it breaks you

and leaves a void in you that cannot

be filled by anything.

I sometimes stop and think to buy

remember what his skin felt like?

You know? -- sometimes stop and

think, do I remember what his skin

felt like? Do I remember what he

felt like? His hair, his hands? I

had to reassure myself I remember.

# No help from the system, swear

that they missed, left him alone.

# Only friend that you have lives a

life on the road, nowhere to go.

# He walks with a knife and hides it

at home.

# We have heard it all a thousand

times, now we are drawing down the

battle lines.

# We rise together.

# We rise together.

We need a change, we need somebody

new leading this country, and it is

not going to be the Government in

power at the moment, because they

are failing us. It is not rocket

science. You are cutting everything,

people are dying.

I was a Tory voter and it rips your

heart out when you see people

elected to represent a country and

they look after their own interests.

If a new Government is the way it

will change, a new Government it has

to be.

Jeremy Corbyn -- Jeremy Corbyn has

come and he is all the things we

have needed for so long.

He wants good things for the

country, especially my kind of

people, working class, on the bottom

of the spectrum. We need Labour, it

is as simple as that.

# We rise together. We rise

together.