gordon brown letter

Dear On 7 May, we will vote in the tightest and most important General Election in generations. As someone who believes passionately in social justice, I wanted to write to you about what is at stake. Labour is proving itself ready to reclaim its historic role as Scotland’s party of fairness and social justice - committed to tackling youth unemployment, widening educational opportunity and ending the need for food banks. My family, like many others here in Scotland, owes a great deal to our National Health Service. It has always been there for us in times of need. Yet the NHS in Scotland is currently in crisis. More than 120,000 people waited more than four hours in Scotland’s A&E departments last year and the Scottish Government’s 12-Week Treatment Guarantee has been breached more than 14,000 times. That’s why Labour has a better plan for our National Health Service. We will deliver £1 billion of extra investment for our NHS in Scotland, funded by a UK-wide mansion tax on properties worth more than £2 million, a levy on big tobacco companies and by cracking down on tax avoidance. With this additional funding we will recruit 1,000 extra nurses and 500 extra GPs for the NHS here in Scotland. If they win the election, the Tories are committed to billions of pounds more austerity – which means less money for Scotland and our NHS. The SNP’s own spending plans for the UK conﬁrm that next year they would not spend a single penny more than the Tories. And the nationalists would scrap the Barnett formula, meaning that our NHS and other public services could only be funded by taxes raised in Scotland. That would mean additional cuts of £7.6 billion to the services we all rely on. The Labour Party created the NHS. We built the NHS. And we have always ensured that it has been fully funded. On 7 May, a vote for any other party increases the risk of the Tories getting back into government. Only a vote for Labour can stop the Tories – and protect our National Health Service for future generations. I ask you to vote Labour. Best wishes, Gordon Brown Kirkcaldy, Fife 7020_15 Promoted by Brian Roy, Scottish General Secretary, on behalf of the Scottish Labour Party both at 290 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4RE. Printed by Anton Group, Anton House, Christy Way, Laindon, Essex SS15 6TR.

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Letter from Gordon Brown to voters in Scotland

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Dear

On 7 May, we will vote in the tightest and most important General Election in generations.

As someone who believes passionately in social justice, I wanted to write to you about what is at stake.

Labour is proving itself ready to reclaim its historic role as Scotland’s party of fairness and social justice - committed to tackling youth unemployment, widening educational opportunity and ending the need for food banks.

My family, like many others here in Scotland, owes a great deal to our National Health Service. It has always been there for us in times of need.

Yet the NHS in Scotland is currently in crisis. More than 120,000 people waited more than four hours in Scotland’s A&E departments last year and the Scottish Government’s 12-Week Treatment Guarantee has been breached more than 14,000 times.

That’s why Labour has a better plan for our National Health Service.

We will deliver £1 billion of extra investment for our NHS in Scotland, funded by a UK-wide mansion tax on properties worth more than £2 million, a levy on big tobacco companies and by cracking down on tax avoidance. With this additional funding we will recruit 1,000 extra nurses and 500 extra GPs for the NHS here in Scotland.

If they win the election, the Tories are committed to billions of pounds more austerity – which means less money for Scotland and our NHS.

The SNP’s own spending plans for the UK confirm that next year they would not spend a single penny more than the Tories. And the nationalists would scrap the Barnett formula, meaning that our NHS and other public services could only be funded by taxes raised in Scotland. That would mean additional cuts of £7.6 billion to the services we all rely on.

The Labour Party created the NHS. We built the NHS. And we have always ensured that it has been fully funded.

On 7 May, a vote for any other party increases the risk of the Tories getting back into government.

Only a vote for Labour can stop the Tories – and protect our National Health Service for future generations.

I ask you to vote Labour.

Best wishes,

GordonBrown

Kirkcaldy, Fife

7020_15 Promoted by Brian Roy, Scottish General Secretary, on behalf of the Scottish Labour Party both at 290 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4RE. Printed by Anton Group, Anton House, Christy Way, Laindon, Essex SS15 6TR.

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