{"id":10066,"date":"2016-09-30T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T11:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:32:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:32:02","slug":"labour-and-tory-policies-oceans-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10066","title":{"rendered":"Labour and Tory policies\u00e2\u20ac\u201c oceans apart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liverpool looked glorious as we departed Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conference yesterday afternoon (Wednesday September 28).\u00c2\u00a0The summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hullabaloo was setting as a new, rosy red optimistic spirit descended upon the Labour faithful.<\/p>\n

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We set off, enthused by the policies that made this party truly distinctive, united behind our leader.<\/p>\n

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And these policies truly are distinctive.\u00c2\u00a0 For the first time in decades the Labour party is making its own the sort of policies my members have long hungered for.<\/p>\n

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On an anniversary that was weighing heavy on the mind of thousands of workers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that of the Redcar steel closure \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jeremy Corbyn stood before the country and promised that his would be a government that would never again allow such an aberration.<\/p>\n

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A national investment bank would support our vital industries, music to the ears of Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s members and the companies they work for as they face head on the challenges of our changing economy.\u00c2\u00a0This bank would put us on the same footing as Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s industrial powerhouse, Germany, dedicated to making sure our world-class industries stay so.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy also committed to a national education service to support our children as they seek to equip themselves with the skills they need to take their place in the world \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as equals, not as the products of hope-killing segregation.<\/p>\n

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A homes-building programme, setting men and women to work to put decent, affordable roofs over people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heads, arresting the scandalous wage-devouring rents in this country and retrieving the hopes of home ownership which have receded into Tory dreamland for millions.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy also revealed that he is a brave politician.\u00c2\u00a0While some in his party interpret Brexit as an act of phobia by my class, Jeremy has stood firm to say that we never, ever pander to those who peddle fear.<\/p>\n

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We face it head on, exposing the truth that the destruction of our services is not the responsibility of our Polish, Portuguese or Pakistani neighbours \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who are more than likely helping to defend them, working day and night to care for our needy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but the fault of a slash and burn government.\u00c2\u00a0Jeremy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s response is that we do not divide our communities; we repair them.<\/p>\n

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Labour is now, after years of personality confusion, distinctive to the Tories.\u00c2\u00a0Fairness versus division.\u00c2\u00a0Investment versus cuts.\u00c2\u00a0 On your side versus on your own.<\/p>\n

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Now we need to stay united in what we stand for\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0behind our leader.<\/p>\n

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Those who fail to read this new mood correctly must surely consider their consciences.\u00c2\u00a0Our country faces a profound challenge: how do we forge a new future for ourselves outside the European Union?<\/p>\n

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The Tory party will have no qualms about dumping the hard-fought rights and living standards of working people into the Channel, cutting deals in desperation that will bounce our communities into the economic dark ages.<\/p>\n

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Our duty as a party therefore is to turn and fight with our every fibre for the best deal for the people we represent, not to wheedle and plot, to dissemble and deceive, to disunite our party and distract us from our purpose.<\/p>\n

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That purpose is, unequivocally, to win power.\u00c2\u00a0And the purpose of that power is to make ours a better Britain. Surely everyone can sign up to that programme.<\/p>\n

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This feature first appeared in the Huffington Post <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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