One Million More

The news that Labour campaigners have had more than four million doorstep conversations with people in Britain since January 1st is testament to the hard work and commitment of our activists and volunteers and Labour’s hunger to win for Britain and stand up for working people.

There is a real choice in the General Election: putting working families first with Labour or working families at risk with the Tories. A choice between investing in the NHS and our children’s education or a Tory plan for extreme cuts. A choice between a recovery that reaches your kitchen table or a Tory plan that benefits only those at the very top.

This choice has energised our campaign and our activists whilst the Tory campaign has run into the sand, built on fear and smear.

The four million conversations we’ve had since January is unprecedented for any party and Ed has challenged us to have one million more conversations before polling day. We know these conversations are making a difference for Labour particularly in the most marginal seats that will decide this election.

Labour is winning the ground war and that voters have had better and more recent contact with Labour than any other party. We have a ten percentage point lead on the Tories in contacting voters in our battleground seats this lead is even higher. The marginal seats might be being bombarded by expensive glossy Tory direct mail but it is Labour candidates and volunteers knocking on doors and having that direct and quality conversation with voters that is punching through the advantage of Tory money and making a difference.

We have seven days until polling day to turn this effort on the ground into votes for Labour MPs and a Labour government. Seven days to make Britain work for working people once again. Seven days to save the NHS and put families first.

Families can’t afford five more years of the Tories putting the wealthiest first. The Tories just don’t understand that Britain only succeeds when working families succeed. Their priority is the few at the top.

Our NHS can’t afford five more years of the Tories – their extreme spending cuts threaten the NHS as we know it. The Tories don’t understand that you can’t fund the NHS on an IOU.

David Cameron is desperately trying to distract the electorate from the real choice the country faces. He is shamefully talking up the SNP and putting our union at risk because he has nothing to say about the most important issues in this election: the NHS, the cost of living, immigration and the future of our children. His shameful silence on his plans for further cuts means the real risk for families is five more years of the Tories. Again today we’ve sene evidence of the Tories secret plans to slash tax credits and child benefit for families.

This is the closest election in a generation and it will go down to the wire. The efforts our candidates, activists, volunteers and staff make in this final week and the conversations they have with the public will help decide the result of this election. Over the last five weeks we’ve set out a positive vision for the kind of country Ed Miliband wants to create. A country where working people succeed, where the next generation has a better chance than the last and a country where our NHS is revitalised and reinvigorated for the future.

With seven days to go lets get out there and make one million more conversations with the public street-by-street, door-by-door and win for Britain with Labour’s better plan for a better future.