GFTU BGCM Minutes 2017

have been taken into public ownership and we should have been benefitting

from what we got out of it. All those profits should have been ploughed back

into our health service, back into our education and back into jobs.

Comrades, I implore you that on 8 th January (sic) you get out and vote Labour,

but, more importantly, for the next three weeks and two days you get out and

you canvas and you campaign as much as you can and you tell your members,

whether they are Labour or whether they are Tory or whether they are Liberals,

that it is our only chance of getting some decency in future life. Vote Tory (sic) and do it on June 8 th . Thank you, comrades. (Applause)

DELEGATES: Vote Labour! (Laughter)

BRO RONNIE DRAPER (Bakers and Allied Workers Union): Don’t vote Tory! Sorry!

(Laughter and applause) Please vote Labour! Don’t vote Tory, for God’s sake

don’t vote Tory! (Laughter)

BRO GLYN TRAVERS (POA): I am supporting this motion and thank TSSA for

bringing this. Ronnie woke us all up with his usual humour and saying that we

are talking about January, because I was listening, Ronnie, and we are talking

about a General Election, a snap election that was called by the evil witch from

the Tory Party because she believed that by calling a snap election with the

polls and individuals attacking Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonald and a true

Labour Party, a true Labour Party that I have waited for, because my childhood

was about the pits and the closure of the pits and the austerity measures that

have come on to this country and seen the attacks year on year by a

Government, a Coalition Government and now a Tory Government and a

Government that will continue to attack trade union workers and the poor

people of this country for the next generations. We will not leave our children

in debt if we elect a Labour Party. What I tell you we will leave our children and

grandchildren is a future that is non-existent if we continue to sit idly on our

hands and allow a Tory Government to be re-elected in June. As Ronnie said,

three weeks and two days. It is a short window, but I tell you now, all we need

to do is to persuade one of our friends to persuade one of their friends to vote

in the next election. That is the first thing. It is getting people to actually vote.

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