ED MILIBAND

Your chance to cure Britain of Tory plague

IN Thursday’s election, it won’t just be Labour, the Tories and the other parties on the ballot paper. It will be the future of your family and your NHS.

It is a choice between two very different visions of how our country succeeds.

I believe that Britain only succeeds when working families succeed; when our all young people have a chance to get on; and when we can guarantee an NHS that can look after our children and grandchildren as well as it has looked after us.

David Cameron believes that the way Britain succeeds is to look after the rich and powerful with preferential treatment for tax avoiders, whilst raiding your family budgets with cuts in working family tax credits and child benefit.

He believes Britain can succeed with a Tory plan for extreme cuts in public services – bigger than anything we’ve seen in the past five years – while waving around a worthless IOU for the NHS.

And he believes he can get away with five years of Tory failure by pretending that the big choice in this election is a clash between two nations – England and Scotland – when the truth is that it is a big choice about whether you put your family and your NHS first.

In five years the Tories have presided over a crisis in the NHS, wasting £3billion on a bureaucratic reorganisation while waiting times in A&E soar and one in four people can’t even get to see a GP for more than a week. That’s not the NHS we love. I know Britain can do better. Only Labour has a real plan with real money to take real action on the NHS immediately after the General Election.

We will give staff in the NHS time to care again. We will recruit 20,000 more nurses and 8,000 GPs, paid for by a mansion tax and closing tax loopholes.

We will guarantee a GP appointment within 48 hours – and on the same day for those who need it. We will get people cancer test results in no more than a week.

On May 8 do you want to wake up in a country run by the same people that have reversed living standards for the first time since the 1920s, are planning extreme spending cuts and will let our NHS slide backwards. Or do you want a Labour government that will invest in the NHS and put your family first?

The stakes at this election are high. The chance to get change does not come often.

Take this chance on Thursday and vote Labour.