Speaking at Scottish Conference in Dundee today,
MP, Leader of the , will say his party is
“obsessed with tackling the problems people face in their daily
lives”.
He will argue that “the real divide in our society” is not over
how people voted in the Independence or EU referendums but
between the many and the few.
Corbyn will also lay out the urgent case to tackle climate
change, which he will call “a class issue”.
The Labour leader will discuss the human costs of austerity,
including the latest research which shows UK life expectancy
falling, which he calls “a moral outrage”.
On the real divide, MP, Leader of the , will say:
“The truth about Labour is, we’re not obsessed by constitutional
questions, like the others are. We’re obsessed with tackling the
problems people face in their daily lives.
“Ending insecurity at work. Ending poverty wages. Ending the cuts
to our public services.
“Because we believe that the real divide in our society is not
between people who voted yes or no for independence. And it’s not
between people who voted to remain or to leave the EU.
“The real divide is between the many – who do the work, create
the wealth and pay their taxes – and the few, who set the rules,
reap the rewards and dodge their taxes.
“So let me spell it out: our mission is to back the working
class, in all its diversity.”
On climate change, will say:
“We are facing a climate crisis. There’s no bigger threat to our
future. And fundamentally, the destruction of our climate is a
class issue.
“It’s working class communities that suffer the worst pollution
and the worst air quality. It’s working class people who will
lose their jobs as resources run dry. And it is working class
people who will be left behind as the rich escape rising sea
levels.
“Big corporations will never do anything serious about it. The
Conservative government will never do anything serious about it
either. But Labour will make it a central objective of our
industrial strategy.
“We need to reduce our net emissions to zero by 2050 at the
latest - it’s not just an ecological priority, it’s a socialist
priority too.
On the human cost of austerity, will say:
“We shouldn’t have a situation where a quarter of children in
Scotland are living in poverty. We shouldn’t have thousands of
Scottish young people without a home. We shouldn’t have life
expectancy in Britain falling.
“What is happening to our country? It’s not only an economic and
social disaster, it is a moral outrage.”
