{"id":16265,"date":"2018-09-23T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=16265"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:13","slug":"unite-member-labour-gs-jennie-formby-addresses-labour-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=16265","title":{"rendered":"Organise, grow and win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Jennie Formby, Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new general secretary addressed the 2018 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool today, September 23, as \u00e2\u20ac\u015bonly the second woman in the history of our movement to hold that position and with our party at the strongest it has ever been with over half a million members.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite member and former Unite political director said there were many challenges ahead \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u015bbut they are challenges I believe we can overcome.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This included \u00e2\u20ac\u015bdeveloping more detailed political education and training materials to help us to tackle all forms of racism,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 slating the Tories as \u00e2\u20ac\u015bthe party that so has so shamefully betrayed the Windrush generation again and again.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Divided Tories <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why unity is so important. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re facing a Conservative party more divided than ever in its history. A Tory government that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s devastating our communities; driving four and a half million children into poverty, 12 per cent of our entire population living in \u00e2\u20ac\u0098persistent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 poverty with food banks the norm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bTory policy has left hospitals struggling to cope, social care failing the most vulnerable, millions living in sub-standard accommodation, an infrastructure that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s collapsing and instead of our children having a brighter future than we did, they face a bleak world with fewer opportunities.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, she said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bwe have an absolute responsibility to unite to beat this callous and cruel government\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6All of us\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6must stand united behind Jeremy Corbyn, our elected leader, united to fight the Tories and to return a Labour government.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her three priorities for the party in the coming months was, \u00e2\u20ac\u0165To organise, to grow and to win.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 The ultimate aim, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bwinning a general election \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the sooner the better.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIncredible things\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She emphasised key programmes in widening voter engagement like the crucial Community Organising initiative and reported in the \u00e2\u20ac\u015bincredible things\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 these teams were achieving up and down the country. She emphasised the need for greater \u00e2\u20ac\u015bengagement with all BAME communities.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She concluded by saying \u00e2\u20ac\u015bSolidarity and collectivism together with our vision for a better future. This must be the glue that binds us together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAnd with members like you I know that we can win. Win for our families, win for our communities. Win a Labour government that will transform the lives of so many people with Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister, for the many, not the few.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite member Labour GS Jennie Formby addresses Labour 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[872,44],"wps_subtitle":"Unite member Labour GS Jennie Formby addresses Labour 2018","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25862,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265\/revisions\/25862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}