24/09/2014 Party Political Broadcasts - Labour Party


24/09/2014

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I go round the country talking to people and so many people say life

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is an incredible struggle at the moment and if it is not a struggle

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now, they feel uncertain about the future. They feel what kind of

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future am I going to have? What kind of future are my family going to

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have? People have lost that confidence that there is going to be

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a future that is better than the past. Now there is sense of we have

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been through the pain, we have made the sacrifices, where is the vision

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for the country? Where is this country going? It is time we have a

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plan and that is what my plan for Britain's future is about. The

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starting point for me is that working people should share in the

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growing wealth of the country. I meet so many people and they find it

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a desperate struggle to make ends meet. What does that say about us as

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a country? Hard work isn't rewarded. That is something we pride ourselves

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on as a country. That is why we are setting a clear objective to reduce

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poverty for those in work, so, over five years, we will get to a minimum

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wage of over ?8 and that will send a message that hard work is going to

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be rewarded again in our country. That is a starting point for what we

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can do. We can only succeed as a country if

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we use the talents of all our young people. For far too long,

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governments of both parties have spent a lot of time worrying about

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who was going to university. I would have no idea what qualifications I

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should be doing. We will set a clear national goal which says over ten

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years, we get as many young people into apprenticeships as we get into

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university. That is a big and dramatic change for our country. It

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will require everyone to step up. I think this is the question - what

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gives you security in life? The love of people you care about? Work? But

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also the confidence and security of a home and so many people are denied

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that confidence and security and don't feel they have a future to

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look forward to. Our aim for the country is we are building as many

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homes as the country needs. We have to break the power of the big

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developers because they are sitting on hundreds of thousands acres of

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land with no planning permission. People often think about the

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environment as being about safeguarding the planet for future

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generations. I care about that in relation to my kids and future

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generations. It is not just about that. It is about what jobs are our

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sons and daughters going to be doing? We have to create the jobs of

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the future. We are setting a clear ten-year goal to create a million

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new jobs in the environmental technologies of the future and make

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Britain a world leader. There's deep anxiety about our NHS,

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among patients, doctors, nurses. Is our NHS going to be there in five

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years' time if this Government gets back? I am deeply committed to our

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NHS. I'm committed to it in deeds. That is why we are committing to

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8,000 more doctors and 20,000 more nurses. We will raise taxes on the

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wealthiest with homes above ?2 million and clampdown on tax

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avoidance and use all of that money to improve our NHS and make sure it

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is there for future generations. I think you can say there is a plan

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for the future. We are a country that is going somewhere and not a

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country that works just for the richest in our society. It is

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possible to build a country that does work for all and not just for

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some. Tories have this idea that as long as the richest are doing OK,

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everyone else will magically benefit from it. My view of success for a

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country is everybody playing their part from top to bottom in society

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and it is about in the end who counts. Is it just a few that count?

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Or is it every day working people that really count? This election

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will come down to that question - do you want a Prime Minister who is

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thinking about you and your family? That is the election choice.

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