Tories out! Corbyn can win with socialist policies
Build a new workers’ party
Take the wealth off the 1%
Tory austerity has brought us…
- 10% real-terms cut in pay
- A 1% pay cap for all public sector workers
- Up to 5.5 million struggling on zero-hour contracts
- 185,000 hospital bed days taken up in 2016 due to malnutrition
- Around half a million forced to go to foodbanks, including nurses and other workers
- The (anti) Trade Union Act
- The housing crisis and spiralling homelessness
- The bedroom tax
- Schools cuts, academisation, privatisation, and stressed-out kids
- Trebling student fees (with the Lib Dems)
- Racist and divisive rhetoric and policies
- Threatening the very future of the NHS
- Privatising our public services
- Cutting corporation tax
In other words, the Tories wreak chaos and destruction on our public services and living standards
Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto includes…
A 20-point plan on workers’ rights, including:
- Ban zero-hour contracts
- £10 an hour minimum wage by 2020
- End the public sector pay cap
- Reintroduce national pay bargaining
- Four new bank holidays
- Repeal the (anti) Trade Union Act
- Part-time, temp and agency workers to have the same rights as full-time, permanent and directly employed workers from day one of employment
- Clampdown on forced self-employment
- Ban unpaid internships
Support for health and social care, including:
- £30 billion extra funding for the NHS
- Halt ‘Sustainability and Transformation Plan’ cuts and repeal the privatising Health and Social Care Act
- End health service privatisation and bring more services into a publicly provided NHS
- Reinstate student nurses’ bursaries
- Integrate the NHS with social care, ensuring parity for mental health services
- £8 billion into social care
- End 15-minute care visits
- Increase carer’s allowance benefits
A National Education Service, including:
- 30 hours’ free childcare a week
- Government-subsidised high-quality childcare places
- End the schools cuts – an extra £7 billion for schools
- Increase staffing levels, cap class sizes
- Introduce free school meals for all primary-age children
- Reintroduce Education Maintenance Allowance for 16 to 18-year-olds
- Abolish tuition fees and reintroduce maintenance grants
Starting to tackle the housing crisis, including:
- Build a million homes, half of them council and housing association homes
- Introduce rent controls and longer tenancies
- Reverse abolition of housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds
- Scrap the bedroom tax
Investment in jobs and services, including:
- Bring railways, energy, water and Royal Mail into public ownership
- End the expansion of ‘driver only operation’ on trains
- A ten-year national investment plan of £250 billion in the infrastructure, through a ‘National Investment Bank’
- Immediate energy price cap
- Freeze travel fares
- Stop closures of Crown Post Offices
- Halt cuts to youth services and fire and rescue services
- Increase corporation tax, income tax on those earning above £80,000, and implement a ‘Robin Hood tax’ on financial transactions
- A ‘fat cat tax’ on excessive big business pay
- Guarantee no increase in taxes for 95% of the population
And more, including:
- Votes at 16
- Guarantee the right of EU citizens to remain in the UK
- Scrap work capability and ‘personal independence payment’ assessments and increase disability benefit ESA
- Guarantee the pensions ‘triple lock’
- End support for aggressive wars of intervention and back effective action to alleviate the refugee crisis
- End arms sales to Saudi Arabia
- Ban fracking