Vote Remain for jobs and rights at work -  Jeremy Corbyn

‘Vote Remain for jobs and rights at work’ – Jeremy Corbyn and other leading Labour figures launch last 48 hours call to action, urging people to vote for their and their families’ future

As the referendum campaign enters its final two days of campaigning, Jeremy Corbyn will lead a rallying call to Labour members, supporters and the country as a whole, urging them to vote remain to protect jobs and rights at work.

This call will be echoed across the day as Labour coordinates a range of activity:

-          Jeremy Corbyn and Alan Johnson will be in Manchester

-          Gordon Brown will be in Glasgow

-          Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband will be in Birmingham  

-          Margaret Beckett and Alan Johnson will be in Derby

-     Neil Kinnock will be in Cardiff

Ahead of the day of action, Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn said:

“These next hours will shape Britain’s future for years to come.

“For all the arguments of recent weeks, this Thursday’s decision can be boiled down to one crucial question: what’s best for jobs in Britain, rights at work and our future prosperity? “On 23rd June we are faced with a choice: do we remain to protect jobs and prosperity in Britain that depend on trade with Europe?

Or do we step into an unknown future with Leave, where a Tory-led Brexit risks economic recovery and threatens a bonfire of employment rights?

“A vote for remain is a vote to put our economy first. On Thursday join me in voting remain to protect jobs and rights at work.”

VOTE REMAIN. FARAGE, BORIS AND MURDOCH DONT HAVE YOUR VIEWS AT HEART. JEREMY CORBYNS LEFT WING ARMY

STATEMENT FROM LABOUR

Jeremy Corbyn MP, Leader of the Labour Party said:

“The whole of the Labour Party and Labour family - and indeed the whole country - will be in shock at the horrific murder of Jo Cox today.

“Jo had a lifelong record of public service and a deep commitment to humanity. She worked both for Oxfam and the anti-slavery charity, the Freedom Fund, before she was elected last year as MP for Batley and Spen – where she was born and grew up.

“Jo was dedicated to getting us to live up to our promises to support the developing world and strengthen human rights – and she brought those values and principles with her when she became an MP.

“Jo died doing her public duty at the heart of our democracy, listening to and representing the people she was elected to serve. It is a profoundly important cause for us all.

“Jo was universally liked at Westminster, not just by her Labour colleagues, but across Parliament.

“In the coming days, there will be questions to answer about how and why she died. But for now all our thoughts are with Jo’s husband Brendan and their two young children. They will grow up without their mum, but can be immensely proud of what she did, what she achieved and what she stood for.

“We send them our deepest condolences. We have lost a much loved colleague, a real talent and a dedicated campaigner for social justice and peace. But they have lost a wife and a mother, and our hearts go out to them.”

Tom Watson MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party said: 

“The whole of the Labour movement is devastated at Jo’s death. We have lost a colleague so young who had much more to contribute to public life. She was our future.

“It is hard to comprehend how a compassionate, principled and beautiful person can be taken away from us so cruelly. It’s even more devastating because she was doing what she did best - serving her constituents.

“We grieve her loss. Our love and prayers are with Brendan and Jo’s family.”

Ends

And Now You’re Gonna Believe Us, by Zack Goldman

By now, you almost certainly know the story.

If you don’t, it goes something like this: Leicester City Football Club, the unfancied, fearless Foxes—hailing from a city known less for winning football trophies and more for curry, Kasabian, and King Richard III—began the season as 5000-1 underdogs to win the Premier League.

Tonight, they were crowned champions. With two matches to spare.

Attempting to find an equivalent in the history of professional sport is futile; there is nothing remotely ripe for comparison.

Seriously, there’s nothing.

It’s impossible not to sound platitudinous about this, particularly after a season’s worth of “Do You Believe in Miracles?” think pieces, but the fact is that what Leicester have done is truly a singular, stupefying, utterly ridiculous story.

Ask anyone how they did it, though, and you’ll get plenty of answers.

They might point to the fact that this was a season typified by turmoil, underperformance, and distraction for each of the league’s favourites—from Chelsea, to Arsenal, to the red and blue halves of Manchester.

Or that Leicester rode their fortune, outperforming almost all statistical indicators during their run, and built a title-winning campaign from seemingly unsustainable performances that would be unlikely to even secure them fourth place and Champions League football in another simulation of our reality.

Or they might tell you that this was a team masterfully moulded from a motley crew of ragtag castoffs, brilliant role players, and diamonds in the rough. That this title was the product of refined research, impeccable recruitment, and intelligent coaching, which gave rise to a squad that played to its strengths, took its chances, and clinically diagnosed tactical advantages and systemic inefficiencies in opponents. That this was a success story built upon seamless, almost providential pivots from attacking particle accelerator to defensive fortress, in a season that contained fewer matches and fewer injuries than opponents had to endure.

They might say that it was Riyad Mahrez’s grace in the box, or his magic wands for feet that led to a PFA Player of the Year Award after being bought for only £400,000 the year prior.

Perhaps they’ll tell you it was Jamie Vardy’s unsparing breakaway speed, or his ruthless near-post lashes, which saw the man—who, yes, half a decade ago was playing in the seventh division for £30 a week while working in a carbon-fibre factory—break the Premier League record for consecutive goalscoring appearances.

Some will assure you it was N’Golo Kante’s tireless running, incredible transitional ability, and outrageous intuition, which have now catapulted him from the French second division to the French national team in a few years.

Or maybe it was Danny Drinkwater’s inch-perfect tackles, or inch-perfect through-balls, that have seen him transformed from “Midfielder with a Funny Name” into “Midfielder with a Funny Name in the England Squad.”

Or the aerial commitment, rugged marking, and run-tracking of a defence that beats with one heart, that unabashedly tussles, that like an accordion, squeezes the air out of an opponent’s attack before expanding into the counter.

Or Kasper Schmeichel, the son of a goalkeeping legend—unrelentingly treated as though he bears “The Lesser” as an epithet trailing his surname—who has now written his own legacy, with a host of highlight-reel saves and a consistently diligent command of his eighteen-yard kingdom.

Or Claudio Ranieri, the manager once mockingly known as “The Tinkerman” for his ceaseless rotational policy, who has uncharacteristically settled on a first-choice lineup, whose motivational tactics over the course of the season have included rewarding his players with pizzas and beers for shutouts, and whose easy-going charm and modesty in front of the cameras have given us a second impression of a man eminently capable of keeping feet on the ground and morale sky high.

Or, perhaps, they might just tell you this was all meant to be.

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