The Tories are NOT our Friends

Yesterday I attended the Jeremy Corbyn rally at the Sage Gateshead in the pouring rain. It was inspiring.

Jeremy Corbyn is the first leader in a long time to acknowledge properly that England goes as far north as Gateshead – and used his unique ability to unite people to gather a 4,000-strong crowd on the bank of the Tyne.

We spoke about the north east and the tragedy of decline that we had to experience under Thatcher and now under Theresa May. Mines? Gone. Steel? Gone. Both were calculated, malicious choices.

There is a funding gap between the north and the south, one that we are all well aware of. At times, transport funding for the south has been 250 times more than for that in the north under the Tories.

School funding in Surrey is much greater than school funding in Gateshead.

We have taken the hardest hit of this government’s austerity programme. We, the north, have suffered the most.

The Conservatives are no friend of us in the north and they never have been. They see us as pushovers, easy to sneak past. There is a presumption that we are naive enough to not see Theresa May’s game.

But we see it.

And we cannot let it slip past us on June 8th, this Thursday.

Vote for a party that cares for the north. One that acknowledges us and has always defended our rights and our industry.

Don’t let Theresa May get away with the murder of the north.

Let Jeremy Corbyn invest in our transport and our arts and our public services – three industries that the north pioneers.