Vote Today May 5 between 7am-10pm for Britain to go forward not back

Meg Hillier, Labour and Co-operative party candidate for MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, has urged all Labour supporters to go out and vote.

‘The decision you take today will help decide the future direction of Britain. There is a huge amount at stake but a simple choice. For, in the end, only Labour or the Conservatives will form the next government,’ she said.

She added: ‘Your support at the last two general elections has given us the chance to build a better country. Despite the challenges that remain, we are proud that Britain is a better, fairer place than eight years ago.

‘Our economy is stable and successful. Two million more people are in work. Mortgages are half the level they were under the Tories. Local schools and hospitals are improving. The minimum wage and tax credits are helping families. Hundreds of thousands of pensioners and children have been lifted out of poverty.

‘But we want to do more – and with your support we will.’

Labour can keep the economy strong to help a million more people into work, or the country can go back under the Tories to mass unemployment. We can keep mortgages down or we can go back to 15 per cent interest rates.

Labour can raise the minimum wage to £5.35 or we can go back to poverty pay. We can keep working to reduce waiting times in the NHS and improving our schools or we can go back to Tory cuts and charges.

Please use your vote. Don’t think the result is in the bag. Don’t think you can cast a protest vote without the Tories getting back into power. Because if just one in ten Labour supporters do that or stay at home, Michael Howard will be in Downing Street. If you want a Labour government, you have to vote Labour. It couldn’t be simpler – or more important.

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For further information, please contact Ian Rathbone 07890 654 068 or e-mail ian.rathbone@tiscali.co.uk