The Labour Party manifesto recognises that if we don’t take urgent action to deal with the climate emergency, we’ll have no planet to live on.  Economic growth cannot be at the expense of our environment.  We need to plan for a sustainable future, and a just future, that helps everyone in our community.  

Labour Party candidate for the Buckingham constituency, David Morgan, said:

“Beneath our pretty villages are tales of hardship and difficulty for people of all income levels. A silent majority for whom the Labour Party now speaks. Rural communities need more support.  Our manifesto delivers that. They need more support not just to counter isolation and poor access to public services, but because rural communities are the frontline guardians of our environment.

“Our plans support families, help young adults have their own home, and re-imagines how we organise our economy so that we work with nature to build a sustainable future.

“The problems of today are caused by yesterday’s way of doing things.  More of the same is not the answer. We need bold new ways to tackle these issues and build a better tomorrow.  This manifesto delivers the real change we all know we need.”

David Morgan, Labour Party candidate for Buckingham
David Morgan, Labour Party candidate for Buckingham

Tackle climate change, protect the environment, and help relieve poverty

  • An ambitious and realistic target of Zero Carbon emissions by the 2030s
  • FREE insulation for the 50% of homes in the Buckingham constituency that do not meet energy efficiency standards – saving about £400 per year off energy bills, reducing fuel poverty, and making a major contribution to reducing carbon emissions
  • Allowing people to retrain for the new jobs in the green economy at any age or stage of life, helping individuals and communities create a sustainable future
  • Legal targets to drive the restoration of species and habitats

Families

  • 30 hours of childcare FREE for all 2-4 year olds – saving hard-pressed parents £5000 a year
  • FREE school meals for ALL primary schoolchildren
  • Sure Start childrens’ centres in every community – ie reopen those childrens’ centres closed down in Buckinghamshire by the Tories
  • Statutory maternity pay extended to 12 months, and paternity leave to 4 weeks

Young adults

  • The largest social housing building programme in a century – providing the affordable homes our young people need, not the homes developers want to build
  • Linking housing rent to local levels of income, to make housing affordable for all
  • Minimum £10 Real Living Wage for everyone over 16
  • Free bus passes for everyone under 25
  • Lower voting age to 16
  • Abolish university tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants

Rural communities

  • Increasing rural bus services, to better connect people to their workplace, schools and public services – improving quality and equality of life, reducing car journeys and carbon emissions, protecting the environment
  • Making high-speed broadband FREE to everyone, and speed internet connectivity for our most isolated communities
  • Weighting local government funding for rural communities – to acknowledge the additional cost of providing public services in rural communities
  • Listing pubs as ‘Assets of Community Value’, so that local communities have automatic first option to buy village pubs that might otherwise close, and STOP post office closures
  • Invest in county farms and encourage more people to go into farming, to help Britain become more self-sufficient in local food production, to reduce ‘food miles’, and to manage the land more sustainably
  • £5.6bn extra in flood protection funding, and better upstream land management to protect people and property
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