Bob Blizzard Waveney PPC 07 February 2014

WHY DAVID CAMERON IS FAILING WOMEN ACROSS THIS COUNTRY

They say a picture tells a thousand words. At Prime Minister's Questions this week there wasn't a single woman on the government's front bench. David Cameron runs his government like an Old Boys Network. No wonder he is failing women across this country. As ordinary, hard-working people struggle with the cost of living crisis, women are being hit hardest by David Camerons failure to act. Under David Cameron, the gap between mens and women's pay increased for the first time in five years and issues affecting women's pay like affordable childcare and the exploitative use of zero hours contracts are brushed aside. David Cameron promised he would modernise his party so he could stand up for women, but he has failed on both counts. Just 5 out of 33 people attending his Cabinet are women compared to 14 out of 32 sitting around Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet table. Having women at the top of the Labour Party makes a difference to how we think and what we do. It shows women across the country how we aspire to govern. Labour will fight for a new kind of One Nation politics, because we believe Britain is strongest when everybody's voice is heard.
Promoted by Tod Sullivan on behalf of Waveney Labour Party, Aspire Centre, Yarmouth Road, Lowestoft, NR32 4AH.

POLITICS MUST CHANGE TO BEAT THE WORST COST-OF- LIVING CRISIS FOR GENERATIONS
Labour's proposals for change include:
- Giving trade union members a real choice over the payment of affiliation fees to Labour for the first time; - Giving people who wish to become affiliated supporters a real voice within a genuinely One Nation Labour Party; - Giving everyone who wants a direct individual relationship with the Labour Party a vote in leadership elections according to the principles of One Member, One Vote, in which everyone is treated as equal in worth to anyone else; - Giving Londoners the chance to engage in politics with a primary introduced for the selection of Labours candidate for mayor; - A guarantee to communities that Labour's process for selecting candidates is free from manipulation and fair to everyone.

While millions of families across Britain face the worst cost-of-living crisis for generations, this Tory-led Government listens only to a privileged few. We need to change that. That's why I'm backing Ed Miliband's big reform to the Labour Party announced this week. In order to form a truly One Nation government, which gives more power over to people to better shape their communities and the decisions that affect their lives, we have to start by opening up and changing the Labour Party itself. Politics and political parties need to change, and with these proposals Labour is leading the way. The changes are designed to ensure One Nation Labour is a party that reaches out to all the people of Britain. They are bold, and will strengthen our connection with people and communities throughout our country By bringing more people into the Labour Party and showing them why we are different, we are telling them who we are as a Party and how we aspire to govern.

LABOUR WILL TACKLE RISING INSECURITY AT WORK

Recent figures show that the number of people feeling insecure at work has almost doubled from 6.5 million to 12 million since David Cameron became Prime Minister. This is a shocking legacy of his time in power. That is why I voted for his government to take action to stop this rising insecurity in a special parliamentary debate on Wednesday. There has been a rise in the number of employees on zero-hours contracts since 2010, with some figures estimating there could be as many as 1 million people now employed on them. The number of people working part time, but who want to work full time has risen by more than 350,000 to over 1.4 million over the same period. Many of these people are paid the National Minimum Wage which has declined in value by almost 5 per cent under David Cameron. Weve got to put a stop to this. Thats why Labour announced plans to ban zero-hours contracts where they exploit people, to end the scandal of false self-employment, strengthen the National Minimum Wage and incentivise employers to pay a Living Wage through make work pay contracts. Labour will always stand up for hard-working people, and the next Labour government will tackle rising insecurity at work by ensuring that Waveney is properly equipped to earn its way out of the cost of living crisis.