GFTU BGCM Minutes 2017

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GFTU to work towards delivering a Labour Government by promoting

the Party’s policies among its affiliates and their members and also by calling

for a vote for Labour on June 8 2017.

He said: Chair, sisters, brothers, I think that over the next few weeks we have

got to make a Herculean effort to try and get a Labour Government into

position. Why do I say this? I am sure, like many of you, over the years I have

been telling our members that when it comes to the ballot the choice was not

between the sociality party that they would like and the Labour Party, the

choice was always between a Labour Government and a Tory Government and

given that choice we will always vote for a Labour Government, but this time

round the choice is better, because the choice is between a socialist Labour

Government or the Tories, the dreaded, dreadful Tories.

I was last week at the Clause V meeting that put the manifesto together and I

am not going to do like some other people did and leak things out of the

manifesto. It is about to be published, it is about to be published in Bradford

within the next couple of hours, but I can tell you something. That manifesto

really fits in with the Rebuild and Transform Britain slogan that we have got

here, because this will no longer be fiddling at the edges. This will be a new

start, a new start for our country and a new start for our people. It will put in

place a new economic settlement, one that works for the 99% and not the 1%

that we have currently got that only works for the richest in our society. This

manifesto will turn the tide of 30 years plus of market fundamentalism. Never

again, never again will we have a Labour Government, a Labour Government,

that rides the neoliberal dragon hoping to tame its worst excesses.

This is historical. The idea that we cannot change things has been ingrained in

us for a long time. I am telling you that when this manifesto is published in the

next couple of hours there will be a clear choice, a clear choice for people to make on June 8 th . It will be no longer business as usual if Labour regains

power. This will be a new dawn, a new dawn for our country, and no doubt that

those who are going to lose out are already attacking our party. If you are a

billionaire, if you are somebody who is dodging your taxes, if you are an

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