Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will use his first major speech of the General Election campaign on Thursday to take aim at what he calls “a corrupt system”: the tax dodgers, bad bosses, big polluters, and billionaire-owned media holding our country back.
Speaking in Battersea tomorrow morning, Corbyn will say:
This election is a once-in-a-generation chance to transform our country, take on the vested interests holding people back and ensure that no community is left behind.
Corbyn will promise that “real change is coming” because,
when Labour wins, the nurse wins, the pensioner wins, the student wins, the office worker wins, the engineer wins. We all win.
Corbyn will say that Labour puts its faith in the “spirit and commitment to community” of the British people, saying “it is your country”, not the property of “born-to-rule Conservatives” who “protect the privileged few”.
The Labour leader will call out representatives of “a rigged system”: such as the Duke of Westminster, Mike Ashley, Jim Ratcliffe, Crispin Odey and Rupert Murdoch.
He will say that the elite are scared of the British people, which is why “they’ll throw everything at us” in this election “because they know we’re not afraid to take them on.” He will add that Labour is on the side of the many against the few who run a corrupt system.
Shrugging off the media narrative about a winter election and promising that real change is coming, Corbyn will declare:
Labour will be out there in every city, town and village with the biggest and most confident campaign that our country has ever seen bringing a message of hope and change to every community. Even if the rivers freeze over, we’re going out to offer real change for the many not the few.
We put our faith in the British people’s spirit and commitment to community. It’s your country.
That’s why we stand with you. We stand for the many. Boris Johnson’s born-to-rule Conservatives protect the privileged few. They’ve slashed taxes for the richest and vital services and support for everyone else.
But real change is coming.
We will end the Conservatives’ great rip-off by putting rail, mail and water into public ownership so they work for everyone, not just Tory donors and shareholders in tax havens.
We will invest in every nation and region, rebuild our public services and give our NHS, schools and police the money they need by taxing those at the top to properly fund services for everyone.
This election is a once-in-a-generation chance to transform our country, take on the vested interests holding people back and ensure that no community is left behind.
“Are you on the side of the tax dodgers, who are taking us all for a ride… Or the children with special educational needs who aren’t getting the support they deserve?”
Corbyn will go on:
You know what really scares the elite?
What they’re actually afraid of is paying their taxes. So in this election they’ll fight harder and dirtier than ever before. They’ll throw everything at us because they know we’re not afraid to take them on.
So we’re going after the tax dodgers. We’re going after the dodgy landlords. We’re going after the bad bosses. We’re going after the big polluters. Because we know whose side we’re on.
So are you on the side of the tax dodgers, who are taking us all for a ride? People who think it’s ok to rip people off, hide their money in tax havens so they can have a new super yacht. Or the children with special educational needs who aren’t getting the support they deserve because of Tory and Lib Dem government cuts?
Whose side are you on? The dodgy landlords, like the Duke of Westminster, Britain’s youngest billionaire, who tried to evict whole blocks of families, to make way for luxury apartments? Or the millions of tenants in Britain who struggle to pay their rent each month?
Whose side are you on? The bad bosses like Mike Ashley, the billionaire who won’t pay his staff properly and is running Newcastle United into the ground? Or his exploited workforce, like the woman who was reportedly forced to give birth in a warehouse toilet because she was terrified of missing her shift?
Whose side are you on? The big polluters like Jim Ratcliffe, Britain’s richest man who makes his money by polluting the environment? Or the children growing up in our cities with reduced lung capacity because of choking pollution?
Whose side are you on? The greedy bankers like Crispin Odey, who makes millions betting against our country and on other people’s misery and donated huge sums to Johnson and the Conservative Party? Or are you on the side of working people, the people who create the wealth that’s then squirreled away in tax havens?
And whose side are you on? The billionaire media barons like Rupert Murdoch, whose empire pumps out propaganda to support a rigged system. Or the overwhelming majority who want to live in a decent, fair, diverse and prosperous society?
You know whose side Labour’s on. And we have something that the Rupert Murdochs, the Mike Ashleys, and the Boris Johnsons don’t have.
We have people. Hundreds of thousands of people in every part of our country, who will make this the biggest people-powered campaign in history.
“When Labour wins, the nurse wins, the pensioner wins, the student wins, the office worker wins, the engineer wins. We all win.”
Rounding off his speech, Corbyn will tell listeners and viewers:
When Labour wins, the nurse wins, the pensioner wins, the student wins, the office worker wins, the engineer wins. We all win.
Boris Johnson thought he was being smart holding this election in a dark and cold December. He thinks you won’t go out to vote. He thinks you won’t go out to campaign.
Well I say this: Labour will be out there in every city, town and village with the biggest and most confident campaign that our country has ever seen bringing a message of hope and change to every community.
Even if the rivers freeze over, we’re going out to bring about real change for the many not the few. All we need to keep us warm is the thought of removing Boris Johnson’s Conservatives from government – and the chance to rebuild and transform our country.
Corbyn’s first campaign video was viewed by over a million people in its first few hours and by over 2.5 million in less than twenty-four hours:
It couldn’t be clearer that Labour means real change – a threat to elites but hope and a better future for the many.
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Brilliant – This is what Labour stands for!
Jeremy does enjoy a campaign that’s for sure! I reckon Johnson will run out of marching powder and make some appalling mis judgement around week 3-4.
I think it’s a brilliant question of who’s side are you on?The British public have to make a choice…There is no middle ground on decency and caring and only one answer…The public are being asked to make or break the system we have lived under since the end of the war….Their choice?
At the end of the day this Poster is, and always has been, on the side of the People, so, it goes without saying i can only vote one way at the 12 December GE, despite my many misgiving associated with the make-up of the PLP, which certainly does not mirror that of the Party membership.
Aye.
4+ more years of angela bleedin’ (ill)eagle for us round here.
Could be worse – At least it ain’t ‘mizz’ balls, greasy, ‘mouthpiece’ philips, harman etc..But piss poor enough.
Ah well, needs must, I guess. 😕
Harman was in he Guardian the other day saying that the trigger point for Labour MPs was too low.
She really is dreadful.
Corbyn’s speech will soon be broadcast live on BBC News & BBC R5L
Brilliant ! This is where Jeremy comes into his own. Johnson is lazy and poor with detail. Jeremy will nail him in any tv debate.
Chomping at the bit to get started now 🙂
“What they’re actually afraid of is paying their taxes”
Wow! Finally someone not afraid to point the finger at the “establishment” (god I hate that simplistic narrative) without falling into the conspiracy bullcrap à la Trump, stating what is going on.
The fact is plain and simple: they want to keep dodging their taxes. They’ll wreck everything, leave the country as a pile of dust, so they don’t pay taxes.
And knowing a bit of history, one discover it’s always been the same, from the fall of the Roman Empire, throughout the middle ages, through civil wars and revolutions, it’s always been about the rich and powerful not wanting to pay their taxes.
“What they’re actually afraid of is paying their taxes”
It’s ok as it goes – but it needs to appeal to the s*n reading types as well. IMO the line should go a bit more along the lines of:
‘What they’ve ABANDONED is their PATRIOTIC DUTY to pay their tax dues’.