28/09/2011 Party Political Broadcasts - Labour Party

For me, the Labour Party really represent

a fair and equal society for everyone.

And a lot of changes that they brought in

when I was a graduate trainee working in the pub industry

really helped me get equal pay

and equal opportunities to succeed in that industry.

Labour introduced the Single Equality Act, Sure Start Children's Centres,

all of which are in jeopardy under this government.

Nobody should fear for their health - they can't get medical care

or they won't be taken care of.

No-one should fear for their old age.

And no-one should fear for their children's education.

I joined the Labour Party in the early 1980s

when my generation were told

they weren't going to have a job and they had very little future.

That changed under Tony and Gordon,

but now we're going back under David Cameron and Nick Clegg.

We're all realising now that those 10, 12, 13 years

that Labour were in, as we were coming towards the end of it,

those waiting lists were going down and down and down.

And what happens under a Tory government?

It always starts going up and up and up as the cuts start biting.

You look at this fragmented coalition that we've got,

how can you possibly have a team

with different views and different visions?

It can only get worse for them two.

So this is an opportunity for us to get forward, be a team,

stick together, believe in a principle, believe in a future.

That's so important.

I am a positive person, I like to be optimistic, but I think

it would help us a great deal if we got rid of the Tory government

and got the Labour Party back into power with Ed heading it all up.

I think there's a great optimism in the country through the Labour Party.

I'm sure of that. I think all our members wish for that.

I certainly hope so, my family hope so.

I've always been Labour, I won't change.

I remember, aged about 11,

all the pits were closing down in Cannock, where I grew up.

My dad got made redundant from the mine.

It was always a struggle for my mum and dad.

And for me to have had the opportunity to go to university

and progress and be doing what I'm doing now,

I really want other bright, young girls to be able to do

the same as me and I really think that the Labour Party are the people

that can make that happen.

I am excited at the prospect that the Labour Party will take over

at the next election.

I think we can do anything we decide to do together.

And with the right leadership,

I think we can achieve miraculous things.