model-willem goes to a pub in York

model-willem is going the first stop of his campaign, a pub in York, full of supporters and potential voters.

“Welcome everyone to this wonderful place in the beautiful York, as the local candidate for this great region it’s a good way to start the campaign here. I’m aware that not everyone knows my name or knows who I am, so I’m Willem and I’m the newly elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Because of that and my local heritage here in York I’m proud to be the candidate to become the new Member of Parliament for the region of the North East and Yorkshire.

For the last few months, Labour has been in power for the first time in fourteen years and we’re already noticing the changes that this means for our country. I am happy that we’re leading a coalition government, but this time a coalition government that actually functions and doesn’t damage the country. The inclusion of devolved parties, such as Plaid Cymru, the SDLP and others means that we’re rooted better in the entire country than the last governments were. We’re listening more to the people of the country, which is why it’s important for me to be here.

The Labour-led Government already made some changes to the living wages, which I know that everyone is looking forward to. We have to ensure that people have enough money to spend on their daily necessities. We can’t have people struggling to make enough money to get food, to get clothes for their children, it’s an absolutely absurd world that we’re living in and I know that the North is hurt by that even more than the rest of the country. This means that we have to increase the minimum wages, increase the help people can get when they lose their jobs, and create a national food strategy where people don’t get hungry because of issues that are not their fault.

We have to invest more in this country, invest more in the public services that are the backbone and the pride of our nation. This means more and better investment in the NHS, more and better investment into our education system, and in our transportation system as well. For too long the Conservatives just let the markets do their thing, but this evidently has failed and we must change this. Of course we can’t spend our way into a better future, but we should ensure that the NHS is something that we can be proud of again, not a healthcare system that is made fun of or overlooked. We can achieve this with more money, but also by looking at ways to decrease bureaucracy, to improve research to make the system more efficient.

One of the first acts of this government was repealing the act that send asylum seekers to Rwanda, an inhumane act from the last Conservative Government. We showed that trying to circumvent the Supreme Court and other judiciaries does not work and should not work this way. We must ensure that we create a new way to tackle immigration, this means, in my opinion, working together with other countries to see how we can keep the people in the region that they are coming from. But on the other hand we also need to make sure that we have enough people in certain areas of work that are desperate to have enough personnel. I know that we can achieve this through changing up the immigration rules, which is something that I want to work on as an MP.

I believe in a better future for our country, I believe in the North, and I believe in our fight as the Labour Party.”