Health
We must protect the NHS from privatisation.
Private organisations are incentivised by profit and high executive salaries.
If we allow things to carry on, powerful monopolistic companies will have the power to charge high prices and dictate lower standards.
Patients will suffer and we must fight it.
As things stand, we have a Tory-led government that lets nurse numbers drops, lets walk-in centres close creating pressures on A&E and cuts funding to social care leading to more burdens on our hospitals.
The Economy
Many wrongly believe Labour does not know how to run an economy. Although mistakes were made, no country in the world (whether left-wing or conservative) saw the economic crisis coming.
Now, Labour must continually emphasise that austerity is a false economy and that thousands of world leading economists agree, including the International Monetary Fund.
Without investment, there's no jobs growth, stagnant or increasing welfare costs, less business tax, consumer transaction tax and income tax revenues, and there is a lost generation of young and untrained unemployed people.
Immigration
Ignoring people's immigration concerns would leave thousands of people feeling ignored.
We should be praising the immigrant population that contribute far more than they take. However we must admit that Labour previously made mistakes. Strong action is needed to ensure social integration (while preserving Britain's diversity), that unemployed British people are trained by local businesses before being overlooked for foreign nationals, that employers that pay below minimum wage meet real consequences and that illegal immigration is tackled.
We must not resort to the alarmist strategies of UKIP and the like.
Welfare
It is wrong that people are demonised for claiming benefits by the Tories and the media.
We need to make it clear that the vast majority of claimants already work or want to work; there are not enough jobs; and living on benefits is not easy (I speak from childhood experience).
The proper goal has to be to invest in jobs and training, that way less people need to rely on welfare to survive, while at the same time paying back the government’s investment through lower welfare bills, economic productivity and boosted tax revenues.
Education
It is wrong that while a lucky minority receive every single advantage, thousands live in poverty.
We have to make society realise that if we do not invest in less advantaged people, it costs society so much more in the long-term: more crime costs; higher welfare costs; more strains on healthcare; and lost economic potential - the British economy could be transformed if we changed the fortunes of thousands of deprived people who were now more able to contribute to output.
