We stand at a crossroads.
We have a
Conservative government who, under David Cameron, initiated an austerity
program. This program was apparently initiated to deal with the financial crash of 2008,
which was a result of neoliberalism.
Neoliberalism
is a system that may sound complicated but, in simple terms, means deregulated
or unfettered capitalism and the privatisation of public services.
Neoliberalism was applied by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, is inherently individualistic and allows corporations and moneyed classes to accumulate more wealth without any restrictions (through tax cuts for the mega rich, for example).
It has been shown that neoliberalism has heightened inequality.
Neoliberalism was applied by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, is inherently individualistic and allows corporations and moneyed classes to accumulate more wealth without any restrictions (through tax cuts for the mega rich, for example).
It has been shown that neoliberalism has heightened inequality.
In the UK
the austerity program has meant taking money from our public services and thus from
those who need it most. This has meant cuts in the armed
forces, cuts
in the police, cuts
in the NHS, cuts
in social care, cuts to education and benefit
cuts. Austerity continues to this day and May's Conservative government
shows no sign of changing it.
We have a
Conservative government and PM who have consistently voted in favour of foreign
military intervention, Iraq
and Libya
being the main examples, which in every case has shown to be highly ineffective
and harmful and has undoubtedly fuelled recent European terror attacks.
We have a
Conservative
government and PM who deals arms with Saudi Arabia. At least until recently Saudi Arabia were funding IS (the group responsible for the continuing deaths
of Europeans) and are bombing Yemen with the weapons we sold to them.
We have a
PM who holds a first strike nuclear policy, meaning she is willing to commit
genocide.
We have a
mainstream media that reverses reality and who has indisputably and systematically attacked Jeremy Corbyn since he
became leader of the Labour party and who have consistently supported the
Conservatives.
We have a
vicious and highly manipulative Conservative election campaign that rests on
disparaging one mild-mannered individual, inciting great fear in the public,
distracting from issues that matter and lying to and misleading the British
public (also see this link).
We have
NHS workers, carers, disabled people and policemen calling out in desperation
(see links below) at the savage Conservative austerity cuts and a Conservative
party that doesn't adequately address these concerns.
We have a
Labour party that holds a transformational fully-costed anti-austerity
manifesto. A party who wants to tax corporations and the richest 5% just a
little bit more in order to pump desperately-needed money back into our public
services to help those less fortunate who have been ravaged by Conservative
austerity cuts.
We have a
humane, principled, sensitive, resilient and caring leader of the opposition,
Jeremy Corbyn, who has been steadfastly committed to anti-war and
anti-inequality causes throughout his life. Corbyn, unlike May, voted against
the Iraq war and against bombing Libya and co-founded the Stop the War
Coalition.
If you
want a principled trustworthy government and PM who are utterly committed to
finding peaceful diplomatic solutions to international conflicts, who want to
pump much-needed money back into our public services, who aren't vicious and
manipulative, who don't make personal dishonest attacks, who don't fund
terrorism (whether directly or indirectly), who aren't willing to commit
genocide, then vote Labour in this election.
Disability cuts
Foreign
policy
Police
cuts
NHS
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