{"id":12546,"date":"2017-06-07T11:51:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T10:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=12546"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T10:02:46","slug":"labour-is-once-again-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=12546","title":{"rendered":"Labour is once again proud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Six weeks ago when Theresa May called her opportunistic election it was understandable that there was a sharp intake of labour movement breath. Could we really mount a decent challenge to a prime minister we were told was exactly what the country needed, buoyed by a cooing, uncritical media that was incapable of understanding the appeal of Jeremy Corbyn to hope-seeking voters?<\/p>\n

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After all, was this Boudicca not the embodiment of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098strong and stable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122?<\/p>\n

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Well that was then. Six weeks on us voters have been on a helter-skelter ride. Mrs May and her Tories have run a car crash campaign.\u00c2\u00a0Just as well Sir Lynton bagged his knighthood last time round as this time his efforts wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even earn him a sticker.<\/p>\n

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The Prime Minister has been revealed to be easy to rattle and unconvinced of her own ideas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not a good look ahead of Brexit talks with 27 irritated EU nations later this month.<\/p>\n

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Of course the seeds of their misfortunes were very much sown by the Tories themselves. Their cold-hearted \u00e2\u20ac\u0098dementia tax\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, their cuts to emergency services biting as security came to the fore, the reality that the NHS is slipping from decline into destruction.\u00c2\u00a0The implosion in public trust that comes when parents understand the ruin that Conservative schemes will bring to their child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life chances.<\/p>\n

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Given the chance tomorrow, their austerity-inspired drag on living standards will continue into the middle of the next decade.<\/p>\n

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The myth of Conservative economic competence is just that:\u00c2\u00a0Scotch Mist.\u00c2\u00a0Even the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greatest thinker, Sir Stephen Hawking, who can see a reality where the rest of us see nothing, has declared the Tories a disaster.<\/p>\n

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So Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour team were never going to take this election lying down.\u00c2\u00a0 They said that it is not enough to simply expose the opponent for being on the wrong side of the argument.\u00c2\u00a0 It is essential too that to those we seek to lead our party offers a vision, and that we put it to the test.<\/p>\n

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Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manifesto, costed and public for all to see \u00e2\u20ac\u201c two qualities missing from the Tories\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 offering \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has been widely hailed as a refreshing and uplifting contrast to seven years of miserly, divisive economics.<\/p>\n

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For Unite this election campaign has been one of the most intense for many years.\u00c2\u00a0We have worked hard to mobilise our members and their communities.\u00c2\u00a0The union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s executive council took the view that the prospectus that Corbyn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Labour was putting to the country was the best hope to reverse the assaults on wages and public services, of bridging the yawning inequality gap, of protecting working people through Brexit.<\/p>\n

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In all conscience, we could do nothing else but fight for every vote.<\/p>\n

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You may have seen our ad vans and our billboards.\u00c2\u00a0You may have had a Unite leaflet through your door or been one of the 600,000 members with whom we have spoken in this brief time where you told us that whether you lived in Scotland, Wales and England your priorities were the NHS, the plans for the UK leaving the EU and the economy.<\/p>\n

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For Unite members, as with workers across the country, only one party can ever truly look to these concerns with their interests at heart, the Labour party.\u00c2\u00a0Theresa May and her team have been shown for what they are \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a party with nothing to offer for the Britain that will dawn on June 9.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Corbyn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Labour understands that if politics in this country is to survive, it must be rooted in the concerns and aspirations of our communities. The people want to be heard, not handed down to \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the anti-establishment tremors that gave us Brexit are still rolling.<\/p>\n

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We may never return to what the dwellers of the Westminster bubble consider the norm, where people like them do business with other people like them in business as usual. This country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s political system has created too many people who are alienated, or abandoned, or struggling to get by for this to continue.<\/p>\n

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Against this backdrop we have Jeremy Corbyn, that rare creature, an optimist.\u00c2\u00a0He\u00c2\u00a0has withstood the slingshots and fusillades from all comers and emerged the stronger.<\/p>\n

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Because he is convinced of Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vision for our better Britain he can lead his team to find their voice,\u00c2\u00a0to show up the dangers of Theresa May and her Tory party and let people believe there really can be an alternative.<\/p>\n

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In six intense but short weeks, this humble man has brought life and direction back to a party struggling to understand its place in a Britain undergoing profound social change.<\/p>\n

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He and his team have chased and harangued a Conservative party for their neglect of the people and their preservation of privilege.\u00c2\u00a0 Even his toughest critics in his party ranks have acknowledged that under Jeremy, Labour is not simply making up the numbers in this election but has done a real public service by blowing more than a few holes in the Tory wall of more of the same.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow is the moment where we, the voters,\u00c2\u00a0can take charge of our future.\u00c2\u00a0Tomorrow, be proud, be confident \u00e2\u20ac\u201c draw strength from all we have achieved in these short weeks. And vote Labour.<\/p>\n

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First appeared in Labour List on Wednesday June 7<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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