VOTE2019 Comment
The time is now for a Labour government
The time for a change of government has never been more urgent. Our country is crying out for an alternative to austerity economics thrust on us by this Conservative government and their Liberal Democrat partners nearly 10 years ago which force the majority to suffer while the rich get richer.
Whatever the government may claim, austerity is not over and never will be as long as the Tories are in power. The damage and destruction they have imposed on our communities has been absolutely devastating.
Years of attacks on working people by this government has left one fifth of our country living on incomes below the poverty line. In one of the richest countries on the planet, just 10 per cent of the country owns 44 per cent of the nation’s wealth while foodbank use is at a record high and nearly one in three children is living in poverty.
Please take a moment to let that fact sink in, because it is absolutely shameful.
This general election is about trust. Who do we trust to guide our communities out of these troubling waters to a better future? I make no excuse for my support for Jeremy Corbyn and my belief that he is the leader to do that.
It’s certainly not the man whose privileged upbringing has given him an arrogant sense of entitlement to rule and will stop at nothing to keep the keys to No 10.
This general election special of uniteWORKS carries an exclusive interview with Jeremy Corbyn which I urge you to read. As he says, when
Len McCluskey General Secretary
you’re weighing up whom to vote for, look around you. Look at the inequality and poverty, the homeless dying on our streets, at our shuttered stores, at the closed factories, at the sick left on trollies in hospital corridors, the wage freezes and the hundreds of thousands of people on zero hours contracts with no guarantee of hours. Look at them and ask yourself if this is the kind of society you want to live in.
Look too at the evidence all around us that the climate change emergency demands urgent, concerted and collective action, and ask whether the Tories’ record on the environment makes them the party to deliver that.
Only Labour is attempting to bring our country together – not irresponsibly doubling-down on division. Only Labour is saying that it will negotiate a Brexit deal – one that will protect jobs, protect rights and environmental standards and won’t use our NHS as bait for Donald Trump and the US private health industry. Only Labour will avert a disastrous no deal crash out, and give you a vote on the deal it negotiates, while honouring the views of the 48 per cent who voted to remain in the EU by putting that option on the ballot paper.
As Unite member Lily Chasteau says, “We need a big radical change to the way our society operates and only Labour offers that. They will improve the quality of life for the majority of people.”
Never have we needed a government that serves the people as much as we do now. When Labour wins, Unite members win.
It’s time for Labour.
uniteWORKS No:34 Published by Unite the union, 128 Theobalds Road, London, WC1X 8TN. Phone 0207 611 2500. Editor – Amanda Campbell Magazine enquiries to the editor, by post, phone, or email
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Unite and Labour – together winning for workers (l-r) Tony Woodhouse Unite EC chair, Jeremy Corbyn, and Len McCluskey
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