Guest speakers included Sue Marsh - author of Diary of a Benefit Scrounger; former Brighton Pavilion Labour MP David Lepper; and Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
Harriet Harman spoke powerfully of the social effects of coalition policy - especially the bedroom tax - and pointed out that a future Labour Government needs Purna Sen's experience of effecting real change on the national and international stage in Parliament. Sue Marsh commented that the election of another Tory-led Government would be the final nail in the coffin for the welfare state that Labour created after 1945, while Purna spoke of her passionate personal commitment to social justice and equality.
