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Reading's Labour parliamentary and local election candidates, along with Council Leader Jo Lovelock, launched Labour's new national election pledges outside Norcot Early Years Centre on Lyndhurst Road today. A local centre that has received significant Labour government and council funding to provide brand new facilities to local families.
Labour’s five election pledges are:
Raise family living standards
Build a high tech economy
Protect frontline services
Strengthen fairness in communities
Naz Sarkar, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Reading West, said:
“Hard-working people in Reading will have a clear choice at this election between the Conservative Party, who are committed to deep, savage and immediate cuts that would affect our schools, hospitals and public transport.
“Or a Labour Party which has guaranteed to protect investment in our front-line services and build a country that provides the jobs of the future.”
Anneliese Dodds, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Reading East, said:
“The pledges announced today by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, come hot on the heals of Alistair Darling’s budget which provides support for new jobs, businesses, families and the economy.
“These pledges, combined with the strong measures taken in the budget and over the past years, will provide the much needed support to help people in Reading through these tough times. The Tories have opposed these measures and the benefits they provide for local families.
Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party at the national launch event in Nottingham today said:
“In the dawn of this new decade, Britain faces the biggest choice for a generation. It is a choice about whether we want to continue on the road to economic recovery or want to turn off, whether we believe that we can face the biggest challenges with the strength of a community around us, or whether every individual should simply be left to sink or swim.
“The choice is real, the risks are real, the consequences are real.
“If we get it wrong, we face an age of austerity. If we get it right, we can achieve an age of shared prosperity.
“Elections are choices for the future. And so I now pledge myself and my party to fighting each and every day for a fairer future for the people of Britain, a future in which the many and not just the few have the chance to earn a better life for themselves and their children.
“We will always put the British people first - before personal interest, our party interest, or any vested interest. We will renew this nation - not for our own benefit or the benefit of a narrow section or clique - but for all the people of this country we love.”
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