JANUARY is always a time of change.

 

Everyone is still sticking to their resolutions, to do a bit more to get healthy or help out in the local community.

The whole year stretches out ahead of us and when I look back at 2015, I want to remember this year for one big event.

I want it to be the year where we say goodbye, good riddance, and never call again, to David Cameron and the Tories.

A Tory government that has not just presided in a rise in inequality but that has almost revelled in it.

In five years they have caused immense damage and set us on a course that is going to hold communities back for years longer.

We can't let them take another five years.

Five more years of falling living standards, zero hour contracts, cuts to vital and valued services which we all rely on in some way, will leave us with a terrible legacy.

That is the opposite of I want to see for the future.

We need a focus on jobs - improving conditions as well as creating new ones.

And that means protecting jobs too.

It is to the abject shame of the SNP that as one of Scotland's biggest industries is under threat, with thousands of jobs at risk on a scale not seen this decade, they are totally absent.

They're off the radar because they are too embarrassed to admit there is problem.

They said when they wanted your vote that oil would be at 113 dollars a barrel - Salmond even said it would be more - and based all their referendum promises on this.

We all knew that oil prices can be volatile as the experts pointed out - the current crisis is because oil is trading below 50 dollars.

I raised this at Prime Minister's Questions last week as this is such a threat to the economy.

Where our is First Minister when so many jobs and livelihoods are at stake?

And as we have seen in the news this week, the SNP and Tories are failing our beloved NHS.

Everyone has a story that sums up the brilliance of our health service, but it is a health service under pressure.

A&E services are struggling north and south of the border.

Patients, healthcare professionals, including the most senior clinicians, are saying this isn't good enough. On the other hand the SNP and the Tories want you to be believe otherwise.

I prefer listening to people who know what they are talking about, so I am delighted that Scottish Labour would fund 1000 extra nurses to be funded by our plans for a mansion tax on homes over £2 million.

Asking those with more help to relieve the pressure on our nurses and doctors, whether Boris Johnson likes it or not.

Only a Labour Government can stop a Tory one.

The SNP want you to vote for them to send the Tories a message.

Instead, vote Labour and send the Tories packing.