My blog for The Labour Party on Ed Milibands speech today: With just six months until the general election, voters face a clear choice. A Conservative Party that with its millionaires’ tax cut thinks the success of our country comes simply from a few at the top. Or a Labour Party focused on helping hardworking families, with an energy price freeze and an increase in the minimum wage. Or on Europe, where the Tories are putting their own party’s interest before national interest, whereas Labour is clear that Britain’s future prosperity is best served by staying inside a reformed Europe. In his speech today, Ed Miliband set out the core issue at the heart of Labour’s agenda for government next year: that under the Conservatives most working people in Britain aren’t feeling a recovery, and that has to change. Because it cannot be right that people in Britain are working harder and harder, but are feeling less secure and worrying about their future, whilst David Cameron claims that his recovery is working. The truth is, that since David Cameron became Prime Minister, most working families are now £1600 a year worse off. I see it in my own constituency: families who have been forced to foodbanks because of the bedroom tax, or pensioners who right now are shivering in their homes because of fear of the gas bill. Britain cannot afford another five years of David Cameron in Downing Street. Under Ed, Labour’s promise to voters at the next election is that we will put hardworking families first. We will tackle the cost of living crisis that so many people are facing today, and we’ll make the big long-term changes our economy and energy markets need. Over the next six months, Labour candidates up and down the country will fight for a fairer, more just, and more equal Britain. labour.org.uk/blog/entry/were-fighting-for-a-fairer-more-just-and-more-equal-britain
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:38:30 +0000
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