【正文】 namp。t seem to berewarding our hard work and effort. There seem to besome people gettingsomething for nothing. This society is losing touch with our values. Andthen Ithink about this beautiful sunny spring day I spent in Lincoln. And the face inthe crowd,this young woman who said she was an ambulance controller. So proudto be working for ourNational Health Service. And so proud too of her youngson. Because she was a single parent,nineteen years old, and what she said tome was, amp。Why does everybody portray me as a burdenon the system? I am not aburden on the system, I am going out, I am doing the right thing forthecountry, why doesnamp。t anyone listen to my voice?amp。 And then I think about thisscaffolder I metjust around the corner from where I live. I was just ingback from a local cafamp。 Iamp。d been at. Hestopped in me the street, he said to me,amp。Whereamp。s your bodyguard?amp。 I said I donamp。t have one,but thatamp。s another story. Hetold me his story. And what he said to me was amp。look, I go out, I dothe work, Igo all around the country, again out in all weathers, I earn a decent wage, butI stillcanamp。t make ends meetamp。. And he said to me, amp。Is anyone ever going to doanything about thosegas and electric bills that just go up and up, faster thanI can earn a living?amp。 He wantedsomeone to fight for him. Now if you listen tothese stories amp。 four of millions of the stories of ourcountry amp。 and you haveyour own, and your friends and family, what do you learn? All of thesepeoplelove Britain, they embody its great spirit, but they all believe that Britaincan do betterthan this. Today I say to them and millions of others youamp。reright, Britain can do better thanthis, Britain must do better than this,Britain will do better than this with a government thatfights for you.
　　But for Britain to do better thanthis weamp。ve got to understand why we got here, why thingsare so tough at themoment even while they tell you there is a recovery and why unless weputthings right it will only be a recovery for the few. Now what Iamp。m about to tellyou is the mostimportant thing Iamp。m going to say today about what needs tochange about our country. Forgenerations in Britain when the economy grew themajority got better off. And then somewherealong the way that vital linkbetween the growing wealth of the country and your family financeswas is, this goes beyond one party or one government. It is more important toyouthan which party is in power, even more important than that. You see, when Iwas growing up inthe 1980s, I saw the benefits of growing prosperity, peopleable to buy a house, a car, even asecond car, go on a foreign holiday theirgrandparents would never have dreamed of. Not spendall their hours at work,able to spend time with kids, not working all the hours that god sends,have asecure pension in retirement and also believe that their kids would have abetter life thanthem. That feels a long way away from where Britain is todaydoesnamp。t it and that is because it see, somewhere along the way thatlink got broken. They used to say a rising tide lifts allboats, now the risingtide just seems to lift the yachts. Now I say this to the people of Britain. IfIwere you I wouldnamp。t even take a second look at a political party unless theymake this theircentral defining purpose because your future depends on childrenamp。s future depends on amp。s future depends on it. I say weare Britain we can do better than this.
　　Now I have got a question for youladies and gentlemen, do the Tories get it?
　　[Audience: No]
　　Oh e on, I didnamp。t hear you, dothe Tories get it?
　　[Audience: No]
　　Ok that is better. They donamp。t getit do they. I want to say this. I understand why three anda half years agosome people might have thought that David Cameron did get it and that iswhypeople voted for him at the last general election. But they voted for changeand I donamp。tbelieve they got the change that they were voting for. Let me justexplain it this way: nextweek we are going to see David Cameron resuming hislap of honour for how brilliantly heamp。sdone as Prime Minister. Claiming creditfor his enormous achievements, how he has saved theeconomy as they put it. Nodoubt heamp。ll even be taking off his shirt and flinging it into thecrowdexpecting adoration from the British people like he did recently on holiday andmaybe Ishould make this promise while Iamp。m about it, if I bee Prime MinisterI wonamp。t take my shirt offin public, I mean it is just not necessary is amp。ll try and keep the promise. Anyway, back toDavid Cameron, so he is going onthis lap of honour, everything is brilliant, heamp。s saved theeconomy, GeorgeOsborne, he deserves the garlands as well, you know, arenamp。t on. The slowest recovery in one hundred years. One million youngpeoplelooking for work. More people on record working parttime who want full timework. Morepeople than for a generation out of work for longer. The longestfall in living standards since1870. That is not worthy of a lap of is worthy of a lap of shame and that is therecord of this government.
　　He does have one record thoughbut I donamp。t think it credits a lap of honour. He has beenPrime Minister for 39months and in 38 of those months wages have risen more slowly thanprices. Thatmeans your living standards falling year, after year, after year. So in 20xxyouamp。ll beasking am I better off now than I was five years ago? And we alreadyknow the answer formillions of families will be no. Youamp。ve made the sacrifices,but you havenamp。t got the rewards. Youwere the first into the recession but youare the last one out. Now of course it would have takentime to recover fromthe global financial crisis whoever was in power. But when these Toriestellyou that the pain will be worth the gain, donamp。t believe them. They canamp。t solvethe cost ofliving crisis and here is why. The cost of living crisis isnamp。t anaccident of David Cameronamp。seconomic policy it is in his economic policy. Letme explain why. You see he believes in this thingcalled the global race, butwhat he doesnamp。t tell you is that he thinks for Brit