https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/27/jeremy-corbyn-promises-rent-controls-and-clampdown-on-gentrification
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
Neoliberalism is broken and we are now the centre ground.
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The Labour Party Conference 2017 ended yesterday (Wednesday) with the traditional singing of the Red Flag, the anthem of Labour. After perhaps the greatest and most inspirational conference for many decades, the words of the song emphasising the sacrifices and solidarity of the international labour movement written by Jim Connell in 1889, were never more appropriate.
Then raise the scarlet standard high,
Beneath it's folds we'll live and dieThough cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
Leader Jeremy Corbyn delivered what many, including commentators in much of the media, regard as the best and most powerful speech yet during his time as in the post.
Outlining the party's proposals for housing, public ownership of railways, power utilities, Royal mail and other essential services, the HHS, Education and the abolition of University fees, Social services and welfare, abolition of public sector pay caps and other measures, Conference presented a programme which this country has been waiting years for. This 2017 Conference marked the return of the Labour party to its traditional values, finally discarding the wasted years of policies which only nibbled at the margins and in fact indirectly helped to sustain the conservative party. The "centre ground" of British politics, fought over simultaneously by New Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, has always been a nebulous concept, which can and has shifted over time.
Jeremy Corbyn pointed out that the "centre ground" has moved and that this Labour party is now the mainstream of the British political system. This fact was confirmed at the general election in June of this year, when Labour increased its vote achieving the biggest swing since the Clement Attlee victory in 1945. Although not securing an overall majority Labour secured 40% of the vote share which at any other election would have resulted in a Labour government.
We now moved forward from this Conference as a united party with the divisions and plotting of the last 2 years now behind us. We move forward to the next general election, which cannot now be more than a few short months away, with the government tearing itself to pieces and fragmenting even more as each day passes.
We need to win another 60 seats at the general election to form a government.We have the policies, the leadership and the determination of our members to do that and even more. The people of this country are responding to our message of hope for the future. We shall provide a government to deliver our manifesto commitments. We shall provide a government for the many not the few.
Outlining the party's proposals for housing, public ownership of railways, power utilities, Royal mail and other essential services, the HHS, Education and the abolition of University fees, Social services and welfare, abolition of public sector pay caps and other measures, Conference presented a programme which this country has been waiting years for. This 2017 Conference marked the return of the Labour party to its traditional values, finally discarding the wasted years of policies which only nibbled at the margins and in fact indirectly helped to sustain the conservative party. The "centre ground" of British politics, fought over simultaneously by New Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, has always been a nebulous concept, which can and has shifted over time.
Jeremy Corbyn pointed out that the "centre ground" has moved and that this Labour party is now the mainstream of the British political system. This fact was confirmed at the general election in June of this year, when Labour increased its vote achieving the biggest swing since the Clement Attlee victory in 1945. Although not securing an overall majority Labour secured 40% of the vote share which at any other election would have resulted in a Labour government.
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We now moved forward from this Conference as a united party with the divisions and plotting of the last 2 years now behind us. We move forward to the next general election, which cannot now be more than a few short months away, with the government tearing itself to pieces and fragmenting even more as each day passes.
We need to win another 60 seats at the general election to form a government.We have the policies, the leadership and the determination of our members to do that and even more. The people of this country are responding to our message of hope for the future. We shall provide a government to deliver our manifesto commitments. We shall provide a government for the many not the few.
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