Offer real change, Corbyn tells Labour
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/offer-real-change-corbyn-tells-labour
FORMER Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has urged the party to offer real change as it prepares to launch its general election manifesto.
Responding to Sir Keir Starmer’s infantile charge that the Tories had prepared “a Jeremy Corbyn-style manifesto,” Mr Corbyn hit back, demanding “a fundamental shake-up of our economic and political system.”
He made his appeal as it was revealed that disillusioned members have been pouring out of what Momentum called Starmer’s “hollowed out” party, including more than 50 in Chingford angered at the treatment of candidate Faiza Shaheen.
Ridiculing Starmer’s attempt to connect him with the Tory plans, Mr Corbyn recalled Labour’s 2017 and 2019 manifestos, which offered radical change and on which the present leader had stood without demur.
He said that if they had been “implemented, energy companies wouldn’t be making record profits while millions of people suffer in poverty.
“A billionaire wouldn’t be purchasing Royal Mail. There wouldn’t be raw sewage in our rivers and seas. [Some] 250,000 people wouldn’t be homeless.
“We wouldn’t be wasting public money on private health contracts. And we would be way ahead in the green investment that is needed to tackle the climate crisis.
“These were fully costed proposals that would have redistributed wealth and power, and I was proud to stand alongside millions of voters and activists calling for this transformative change.”
He added change is still more urgent because the “crises we face today are even more pressing and severe.”
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