Congratulations to Harriet Harman in winning the deputy leadership, it was a good contest, Labour showed it has a depth of talent way ahead of the Conservatives run by Bullingdon Dave an his Eton cronies stuck in their Cholmondley-Warner world.
Harman's acceptance speech was excellent, indeed the opening section explains exactly why the Conservatives and their cheerleaders aren't fit to govern this country for at least another generation, or two, or three.....:
We remember how things have changed. I will never forget how, at my advice surgeries in Peckham Town Hall when we were in opposition, my constituents would hand me their pay slips showing £1.60 an hour. The national minimum wage put an end to that. There would have been no national minimum wage without Labour.
I will never forget my constituents showing me letters from Kings College Hospital saying “you have an appointment for your hip operation – it’s in two years’ three months’ time.”
That no longer happens now. Waiting lists have fallen dramatically. But we know the doubling of investment in the NHS would never have happened without Labour.
Nor will I forget the woman in my constituency who said to me “I’ve got two lads indoors. One’s 19 and one’s 21. Neither has had a day’s work or training since they left school. Can you help?” But I couldn’t help. We couldn’t help until we kicked the Tories out and Labour was in Government.
People working for £1.60 an hour, waiting times of over 2 years for routine operations, a generation of young people locked out of jobs and training. The Tories were, and still are, a mixture of cruelty and incompetence, and this country can't afford to go back to the bad old days.
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