Showing posts with label #General Election'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #General Election'. Show all posts

Saturday 10 June 2017

Not in our names


The torys have agreed to to form a power sharing agreement with a party the DUP which  really is a nasty piece of work. It was founded, for one thing, by the bigot Ian Paisley, his son succeeded his father as North Antrim MP in 2010. He is also a member of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, which his father led.and its goal is to keep Northern Ireland in the UK. It supported Brexit, and has a number of other odious stands, opposing equal rights for LGBT people, in a 2007 interview, Mr Paisley expressed his views on same sex marriages. He told Hot Press magazine he was "pretty repulsed" by gay people and lesbianism. and  his party is  also against women's rights , climate change deniers among many things.(see here, here, here,  and here for documentation). There new leader and Theresa May's mate Arlene Foster was meeting with loyalist UDA terror group boss Jackie McDonald for UDA members election support, just 48 hours after the UDA had shot a man dead in front of his three year old son in a Sainsbury car park.
Just engaging with  these very real terrorist sympathisers is simply vile, we seem to  now to have a coalition of hate. All very frightening and chilling.
However, a note of caution, lets remember that the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) can't vote on English laws (due to the EVEL law passed in 2015)https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/bills/public/english-votes-for-english-laws/
technically there can't be a coalition with the DUP due to the peace agreement and our promise of neutrality, so there is a "supply of consent"- so the tories are a minority government.
And to be fair Theresa May warned us all of a coalition of chaos propped up by terrorist sympathisers, she just forgot to say she would be leading it. She also said  we should fight extremism, this then is what we must do then, we must continue to resist these dark forces. Not in our names.

No confidence in a Conservative and DUP Coalition

https://www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-no-confidence-in-a-conservative-and-dup-colaition-forthevoiceofthemanynotthefew?recruiter=1512763&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_petition

Stop the DUP & TORIES forming a Minority Government!

https://www.change.org/p/winston-no-coalition-with-the-dup-may-out-postmanpratt1

Monday 29 May 2017

Kick out the Tories


Following the awful  terrorist atrocity in Manchester last Monday, we must remain dedicated to unite people from divisions currently effecting our society. Lets not forget that because of security and intelligence cuts, the Tories have failed to protect us.
The general election campaign is now back in full swing and the latest polls suggest that Theresa May could be losing her lead. Theresa May called this general election in a cynical attempt to crush the opposition to her hard Brexit, we must continue to work together to stop the Tories getting a landslide and pushing through her destructive policies. If we don't we could be forced to live with the devastating  consequences for years to come.
Theresa May has shown herself to be a poor choice for Britain's future. She keeps inflicting on us her cruel policies for the few and not the many.This week she u-turned over her manifesto commitment, nicknamed the "dementia tax". Theresa May even had the audacity to pay Google Ads to try and stop people talking about it, but it  has only had the effect of encouraging absolutely everyone to talk about it,  huge swathes of people sharing the story on social media. Also over the course of her short premiership she has flip-flopped on at least nine policy pledges.  https://infacts.org/theresa-mays-top-9-flip-flops/.Does this sound like a strong and stable leader, I don't flipping think so. In addition she and the rest of the Tories are increasingly indulging in the politics of fear. We must continue in our efforts to stop her  in her tracks and making a mess of our country. Another tory win will destroy the NHS, continue to inflict damage on our public services, combined with there cruel welfare cuts, the likelihood of pushing  millions  of us further into poverty is a very real threat indeed.
Forget what the pollsters and bookies tell you, ignore the Tory medias campaign of distortion and falsification and bias, rags like the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Express and the Scum, that keep carry on pumping out the same disingeneous and divisive rubbish, with the BBC also guilty misleading people into parroting Tory narratives and soundbites.
We should not forget the Tory's  ruthless, toxic and unjust policies. Their constant assaults  on the N.H.S, the Royal Mail, people on welfare, the disadvantaged, the poor, which includes poorly paid workers, then we've got people using food banks, pensioners with slashed fuel allowances, the hated bedroom  tax, rising homelessness, dodgy benefit assessments. The list goes on and on,.
it is still possible to stop the Tories wreaking havoc on the nation and block the hard Brexit that could cripple the economy, the tories are beatable. Labour still have a clear chance of victory in this snap election. We have to keep pushing, otherwise May and co will just push  us back years, we need a fairer society, not one of ruin.
We can restore the NHS to health: cancel all debts to the PFI sharks; train more doctors, nurses and staff and raise their wages. Abolish the internal market and the Trusts. It is not to late to stop May’s “Back to the ’50s” reactionary grammar school nonsense and pledge the creation of a National Education Service from nursery to university to adult education. We need grants, not fees, for all. For a fully comprehensive system with no selection, an end to league tables and the semi-privatised status of free schools and academies. We can solve the housing crisis, with a huge housebuilding programme, encouraging Labour local authorities to build council houses at genuinely affordable rents. Regenerate areas that suffer from high unemployment and insecure, low paid jobs; draw up public investment plans and tool up workers with the skills to do the work. Time now to abandon their ideological conscious cruelty of austerity for good.
There is money out there to pay for it,  there are the rich with their vast piles of inherited wealth, the fat cats in the City with their eye-watering bonuses, we can have wealth redistribution through fair taxation, a clampdown on big corporations that continue to cheat on their taxes, big business could pay an additional  amount of money, through a hike in corporation tax, raising more money by reversing tory tax giveaways on levies including capital gains and inheritance tax. We could also see a  return off our nations utilities to public ownership. It is not a utopian vision that wants to see a reduction in financial inequalities in our society. These are challenges that we must take in order to create a fairer more equal society for the many not the few.
I have not voted for a while, having become distrustful of politicians in general, but have come to the conclusion, we have too much to lose, the current situation is very grave, so on 8th of June kick out the Tories, put Jeremy Corbyn in no 10 for a more humane, caring and workable direction for society. It's time to look forward to a future, that we can actually take pride in. Surely even if Labour can only deliver half of what they promise in their manifesto, that's still a million times better than what the Tories have to offer.
Finally will add that Stick it to the Tories have sent out thousands of stickers and badges over the last few weeks. Anti Tory Stickers are all over Britain! Let's have one last push to get even more out there on the streets! Time to take down these Tories . Make June the end of May.
Get your stickers here: http://stickittothetories.org.uk

Newtown Neurotics - Kick out the Tories