Corbyn visits town
Labour leader speaks at Blantyre Miners’ welfare
The Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, was in Blantyre last weekend as part of a twoday visit to Scotland.
Speaking to a function room at Blantyre Miners’ Welfare Club on Sunday, Mr Corbyn praised Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP Ged Killen’s campaign to save high street banks and cash machines.
He said: “Working class communities increasingly get excluded from the banking system, excluded from the ability to borrow money of any sort.
“This campaign leads absolutely into what we want to do as a Labour government – take Royal Mail back into public ownership, reintegrate it with the Post Office that it should never have been separated from, and establish a Post Bank in every part of the country so that we don’t leave high streets in poor working class communities behind – we actually regenerate them through public investment, through the Post Bank and Post Offices jointly with Royal Mail.”
As well as Mr Killen, the Leader of the
Opposition was also joined by Central Scotland MSP Monica Lennon, Scottish Labour Leader Richard Leonard and James Kelly MSP for Glasgow.
Mr Killen said: “It was great to welcome Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Leonard to Blantyre.
“I was also really pleased to see people who are not signed up members come to hear from Jeremy about Labour’s radical plans to transform our society and our economy so that it delivers equality, fairness and prosperity for working people instead of a select few at the top.”