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ELECTIONS 2007 HEADLINES. (PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE)
1) POST ELECTION COMMENT 2) SCOTTISH ASSEMBLY ELECTION RESULTS THEN AND NOW. 3) ARTHUR SCARGILL TO SPEAK IN WALES ON MAY DAY and MAY 2nd. 4) SOCIALIST LABOUR SCOTLAND CALLS FOR REAL INDEPENDENCE. 5) WHERE THE SLP IS STANDING CANDIDATES. 6) APPEAL BY ARTHUR SCARGILL PARTY LEADER. 7) YOUR SLP CANDIDATES. 8) RICKY TOMLINSON TO FRONT SLP ELECTION BROADCASTS. 9) BIRMINGHAM COUNCILOR'S DEFECTION TO SLP ROCKS NEW LABOUR. 10) WHEN AND WHERE TO TUNE INTO SLP ELECTION BROADCASTS. 11) THE GREAT SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE SWINDLE. 12) A MESSAGE FROM BOBBY COCHRANE (IRVINE) 13) LAUNCH OF MANIFESTO FOR WALES . 14) BBC SCOTLAND NEWS REPORT. 15) LAUNCH OF MANIFESTO FOR SCOTLAND.
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The 3rd May 2007 elections, covering Local, Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, saw people vote in their tens of thousands for the Socialist Labour Party, whilst there was a collapse of the Labour Party vote whereby approximately only one in four of the people, who actually voted, cast their support for the Blair-Brown government. This resulted in no overall majority for any political party either in the Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly. The significance of this is that no party could take full advantage of the Labour vote collapse. This is because none of the mainstream parties speak for, nor represent, the interests of the majority of the British people. Consequently the Labour government can derive arrogance from seeing no opposition to their policies. Indeed, Tory leader David Cameron has already stated that should his party come to power they will continue with the policies of the Blair government. However such a situation, where vast sections of the population are now politically disenfranchised, opens up tremendous opportunities for the SLP to put forward its socialist policies which do reflect the interests of the majority, as opposed to the existing political situation which favours the multinationals and financial institutions at the expense of the majority. In the Local elections SLP Candidates scored very well in a number of contests whilst in Wales the May elections saw the SLP receive more votes than any other ‘socialist’ party and in Scotland the SLP beat the Scottish Socialist Party in seven out of the eight regions it stood in - these results demonstrate that support for the SLP is not confined to one area. This is a platform of support that the SLP will build upon as it develops into a force that can give back a political voice to the millions who are currently faced with the problems inherent in a capitalist society, such as growing personal debt, attacks on welfare rights, pensions, health, education, and civil liberties. We say no to a society that treats people like a ‘commodity’ and which sees everything in terms of ‘market value’ and we are intent on achieving a social system that truly represents the interests of the majority. Join us. ............................................................................................................................................ 2) SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT ELECTION RESULTS
CENTRAL SCOTLAND1999 Socialist Labour Party 10,956 (3.32%) Scottish Socialist Party 5,739 (1.74%) Green Party 5,926 (1.79%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2003 Socialist Labour Party 3,091 (1.47%) Scottish Socialist Party 19,016 (7.23%) Green Party 12,248 (4.66%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2007 Socialist Labour Party 2,303 (0.80%) (-0.7%) Scottish Socialist Party 2,188 (0.80%) (-6.5%) Green Party 7,204 (2.50%) (-2.1%) Solidarity 5,012 (1.8%)
HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS1999 Socialist Labour Party 2,808 (1.39%) Scottish Socialist Party 1,770 (0.88%) Green Party 7,560 (3.75%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2003 Socialist Labour Party 1,617 (0.96%) Scottish Socialist Party 9,000 (5.34%) Green Party 13,935 (8.27%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2007 Socialist Labour Party 1,027 (0.60%) (-0.4%) Scottish Socialist Party 973 (0.50%) (-4.8%) Green Party 8,602 (4.60%) (-3.6%) Solidarity 1,833 (1.0%) ID SCOTLAND & FIFE
1999 Socialist Labour Party 4,266 (1.40%) Scottish Socialist Party 3,044 (1.0%) Green Party 11,821 (3.87%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2003 Socialist Labour Party 2,273 (0.91%) Scottish Socialist Party 11,401 (4.56%) Green Party 17,147 (6.86% Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2007 Socialist Labour Party 1,523 (0.60%) (-0.4%) Scottish Socialist Party 1,116 (0.40%) (-4.2%) Green Party 10,318 (3.80%) (-3.1%) Solidarity 2,468 (0.9%)
SOUTH OF SCOTLAND1999 Socialist Labour Party 13,887 (4.36%) Scottish Socialist Party 3,304 (1.04%) Green Party 9,468 (2.97%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2003 Socialist Labour Party 3,054 (1.16%) Scottish Socialist Party 14,228 (5.40%) Green Party 15,062 (5.72%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND
2007 Socialist Labour Party 1,633 (0.60%) (-0.6%) Scottish Socialist Party 1,114 (0.40%) (-5.0%) Green Party 9,254 (3.30%) (-2.4%) Solidarity 3,433 (1.2%)
GLASGOW1999 Socialist Labour Party 4,391 (1.71%) Scottish Socialist Party 18,581 (7.25%) Green Party 10,159 (3.96%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2003 Socialist Labour Party 3,091 (1.59%) Scottish Socialist Party 31,116 (16.02%) Green Party 14,570 (7.50%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2007 Socialist Labour Party 2,680 (1.3%) (-0.2%) Scottish Socialist Party 2,579 (1.2%) (-14.0%) Green Party 10,759 (5.2%) (-1.9%) Solidarity 8,544 (4.1%) LOTHIANS1999 Socialist Labour Party 10,895 (3.30%) Scottish Socialist Party 5,237 (1.58%) Green Party 22,848 (6.91%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2003 Socialist Labour Party 2,181 (0.82%) Scottish Socialist Party 14,448 (5.44%) Green Party 31,908 (12.01%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2007 Socialist Labour Party 2,190 (0.8%) (-0.1%) Scottish Socialist Party 1,994 (0.7%) (-4.7%) Green Party 20,147 (7.0%) (-5.0% Solidarity 2,998 (1.0%)
NORTH EAST1999 Socialist Labour Party 3,557 (1.25%) Scottish Socialist Party 3,016 (1.06%) Green Party 8,067 (2.83%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2003 Socialist Labour Party 2,431 (1.00%) Scottish Socialist Party 10,226 (4.20%) Green Party 12,724 (5.22%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2007 Socialist Labour Party 1,331 (0.5%) (-0.5%) Scottish Socialist Party 1,051 (0.4%) (-3.8%) Green Party 8,148 (3.1%) (-2.1%) Solidarity 2,004 (0.8%)
WEST OF SCOTLAND1999 Socialist Labour Party 4,472 (1.44%) Scottish Socialist Party 5,944 (1.91%) Green Party 8,175 (2.63%) Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2003 Socialist Labour Party 3,155 (1.23%) Scottish Socialist Party 18,591 (7.23%) Green 14,544 (5.66%)
2007 Socialist Labour Party 1,557 (0.6%) (-0.6%) Scottish Socialist Party 1,716 (0.6%) (-6.6%) Green Party 8,152 (3.0%) (-2.6%) Solidarity 4,774 (1.8%)
TOTAL VOTES CAST1999 Socialist Labour Party 55,232 Scottish Socialist Party 46,635 Green Party 84,024 Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2003 Socialist Labour Party 20,893 Scottish Socialist Party 128,026 Green Party 132,138 Solidarity DID NOT STAND 2007 Socialist Labour Party 14,244 Scottish Socialist Party 12,731 Green Party 82,584 Solidarity 31,066 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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STOP PRESS: as in 1999 and 2003, Labour will not win any regional places on 3rd May - all its votes will be wasted because the whole point of having the regional ballot is to increase the number of non-Labour Party Assembly Members. By voting Labour for the region, you allow Tories to get in. Instead, you could elect socialists to the National Assembly by voting for the Socialist Labour Party list. Hear our lead candidatesJohn Cox and Liz Screen at the United Reformed Church, Van Road, Caerphilly 7.30pm on Tuesday 1st May Guest speaker: Arthur Scargill
and on the following evening in Swansea Hear our lead candidateJacob Bowenat the Unitarian Church, High Street, Swansea 7.30pm on Wednesday 2nd May
Guest speaker: Arthur Scargill
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4) Press Release – 1st May 2007.
Socialist Labour for Jobs and Regeneration
Politicians of all the other parties would have us all believe that the coming election is to be an Independence D-day. The dictionary defines Independence as “being free from the influence or control of others; self-governing”. Workers desperate for outstanding government contracts that would save jobs and allow government to direct work to maintain essential skills and economic vitality to areas desperately in need of it would welcome that sort of “independence”. However, the British government can’t do this – it would break EU competition rules to do so. Neither could an SNP “independent” Scottish government – nor any envisaged by any other party. Because they ALL support the EU! Want public investment in schools, hospitals, housing etc? NOT allowed under EU rules hence PPP/PFI under New Labour and the Tories or “public trusts” as proposed by the SNP and Lib Dems. Ask any of them about VAT – the flat rate tax that they ALL support! Fishing policy, agricultural policy? All determined by unelected EU bureaucrats. Yes it is true - at root these parties are all THE SAME! Socialist Labour states that there can be NO independence for Scotland or Britain in the EU – that’s why we’re in favour of withdrawal from the big business led EU. If we have MSP’s elected on the 3rd May we’ll propose we have a referendum on public ownership of all our public transport! We’ll follow that up with referenda on nationalisation of our natural energy reserves and then look at taking control of our profiteering banks and building societies! That’s what needs to be done to achieve REAL independence! Tackling Unemployment – the root cause of society’s ills Rebuilding and restoring our economy can only b done by regenerating our deep mine coal industry, re-developieng our battered steel industry and ending all coal and steel imports into Britain. We have to rebuild – again, from the perspective of social need - our engineering industries, and restore the mighty ship building industry which was once the envy of the world and support our farming and fishing industries. Unemployment – even under this unjust capitalist system – could be wiped out virtually overnight. It requires just three basic measures: · A four-day working week; · A ban on all non-essential overtime; · Retirement on a voluntary basis with full pay at age 55.
These steps would create jobs for all who are able to work, but they must be real jobs – whether full-time or part-time (for those who cannot work full-time). They must be permanent jobs (no more short-terms contracts) and they must be jobs paying a decent wage. The introduction of a four-day working week, a ban on all non-essential overtime and voluntary retirement on full pay at age 55 would actually save money. The vast majority of this cost could be met out of the billions currently paid out in unemployment and related benefits and by National Insurance contributions that would flow from the increased number of people in work. Money lost through unemployment – lost through lack of purchasing power and income tax revenue - costs taxpayers billions a year. Our employment policies would not only mean jobs for unemployed workers but a better deal all round for Scotland’s taxpayers. Only the SLP has the policies capable of bringing about a fundamental change in our society. Lead Candidates:
Linda Sheridan JimMcDaid Brian Corbett Katharine McGavigan Central Scotland Glasgow Highlands & Islands Lothians
Ian Johnson Billy Kelly Bobby Cochrane Louise McDaid Mid Scotland & Fife North East South of Scotland West of Scotland
Picture attached shows Ricky
Tomlinson with SLP candidates for Glasgow, West of Scotland and South of
Scotland.
1st May 2007.
The full SLP Scotland Manifesto can be viewed a www.socialist-labour-party.org.uk
5) WHERE THE SLP IS STANDING CANDIDATES
THE SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY IS STANDING CANDIDATES IN ALL REGIONAL LIST ELECTIONS IN WALES AND SC0TLAND AND IN LOCAL AUTHORITY ELECTIONS IN ENGLAND. WE URGE YOU TO VOTE FOR OUR CANDIDATES AND SUPPORT THEIR CAMPAIGNS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP WITH THE CAMPAIGNS PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL OFFICE. DONATIONS TO THE PARTY FIGHTING FUND ARE PARTICULARLY WELCOME AT THIS TIME. ------------------------------------------------------
6) APPEAL BY SLP PARTY LEADER ARTHUR SCARGILL.
7) YOUR SOCIALIST LABOUR CANDIDATES .
SOUTH WALES EAST John Cox
---------------------------------------------------- Sue Deare Glenn Eynon Cerian Screen Joyce Giblin -------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH WALES CENTRAL Liz Screen
Harry Parfitt Ina Marsden Rob Hawkins ------------------------------------------------------ SOUTH WALES WEST Jacob Bowen.
Martha Page-Harries Miriam Scale Howard Rees ------------------------------------------------------- Mid and West Wales Alun Davies
Luke Hume Trish Bowen Maggie Davies -------------------------------------------------- NORTH WALES. Bob English
Dave Roberts Judith Sambrook Paul Liversuch --------------------------------------------------
SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS 2007 SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY CANDIDATES REGIONAL LISTS
SLP Scottish candidates Jim McDaid , Louise McDaid and Bobby Cochrane with Ricky Tomlinson.
CENTRAL SCOTLANDLinda Sheridan
George Rose Ronnie Sinclair Perry Lomas GLASGOWJames McDaid
Doris Kelly Paul Hardman Patricia MacInnes HIGHLANDS & ISLANDSBrian CorbettClaire Watt Colin Muir Dorothy Entwistle LOTHIANSKatharine McGavigan Kai Anderson
James Herriot Sarah McGrogan MID SCOTLAND & FIFEIan Johnson
Amanda Rose Michael Lynch Howard Broadbent NORTH EASTBilly Kelly
Lynne Lowe Jim Berrington Lesley LomasSOUTH OF SCOTLANDBobby Cochrane
Linda Muir Rose Ann Rose Alan Jones WEST OF SCOTLANDLouise McDaid
Sarah Murdoch Theresa Byrne Hazel Gallagher
LEAD CANDIDATES IN THE ENGLISH LOCAL AUTHORITY ELECTIONS INCLUDE. JOHN TYRELL - HANDSWORTH WOOD BIRMINGHAM
SHEERA JOHAL - SOHO WARD BIRMINGHAM
SITAL SINGH GILL CHARNWOOD WARD LEICESTER
CHIMANBHAI PATEL CHARNWOOD WARD LEICESTER
Professor Ian Smalley - Westcotes ward Leicester Val Smalley - Westcotes ward Leicester
Bill Bull Lewes - Bridge ward in Lewes
east Sussex.
John Mcleod - East Brighton ward in
Brighton.
Phil Chambers - Molsey ward East Surrey.
Kai Andersen - Norris Green Liverpool.
Jim Flannery - Davyhulme East Trafford .
Steve Whatham - Prescot West
Knowsley.
Ron Waugh - St Helens.
Lynton Bennett - Stone Bench Buxton
8)RICKY TOMLINSON TO FRONT SLP BROADCASTS Actor , author and veteran political campaigner Ricky Tomlinson is to front the Socialist Labour Party television broadcasts in Scotland and Wales.Ricky a socialist since his unjust arrest and imprisonment on conspiracy charges during the 1972 builders strike, has been a life long campaigner for an open public enquiry into the arrest trial of the Shrewsbury pickets and the subsequent jailing of the Shrewsbury Three. See below for details of election broadcasts. Vote New Labour ...my arse !
Party Leader Arthur Scargill, Scottish SLP candidate and Farepak campaigner Louise McDaid with Ricky Tomlinson. 9) Birmingham Councilor's defection to Socialist Labour rocks New Labour.
Former Birmingham cabinet member John Tyrrell, who quit the
Labour Party is to stand for the Socialist Labour Party in next month's city
council elections. Dave Roberts, Vice president of The Socialist Labour Party and midland regional secretary welcomed John to the party saying “John Tyrell represents a whole layer of discontented former Labour Party supporters in Birmingham. The Socialist Labour Party remains the natural and only home for all socialists in the labour movement, I urge others to follow John’s lead and to support him and the Socialist Labour Party in the coming election.”
10) Where and when to catch SLP election broadcasts
SCOTLAND STV- Broadcast slot is Tuesday 17th April 2007 @ 11p.m. Border Television- Broadcast slot is Tuesday 17th April 2007 @ Midnight BBC Scotland- Broadcast slot For BBC One is Tuesday 17th April 2007 @10.35pm. BBC Two slot is Tuesday 17th April 2007 @ 11.35pm. Radio Scotland broadcast slot is Tuesday 17th April 2007 @ 4pm. WALES ITV Wales- Broadcast slot is Monday 23rd April 2007 @ 6.25pm. BBC Wales- Broadcast slot for BBC One Wales is Thursday 26th April 2007 @ 10.35p.m..
BBC Two Wales- Thursday 26th April 2007 @ 11.20p.m. . BBC Radio Wales 13.00 - 13.30 on Monday 23rd April SLP candidates to participate in Phone in programme- Richard Evans presents debate on the stories that matter to Wales in the Radio Wales Phone In with Richard Evans. Call the show on
08700 100 110 (local rates
apply) BBC Radio Wales on Thursday 26th April 2007 @ 9.55p.m. BBC Radio Cymru on Thursday 26th April 2007 @ 2.05p.m. S4C Wales -Broadcast slot is Thursday 26th April 2007 @ 11.30pm. --------------------------------------------------------------- 11)THE GREAT SCOTTISH "INDEPENDENCE" SWINDLE Politicians of all the parties (at least those we get to see and hear frequently on TV and radio) and pundits in all the news media outlets would have us all believe that the forthcoming Scottish Parliamentary poll is to be the great Independence election. Will the people opt to stay within the union or go it alone they ask? Do the Scots wish to determine their own destiny or continue to be represented at Westminster? And so on and so forth. Serious questions one might say – that is if one ignores the massive, great EU elephant in the front room! What about the European Union? Where does it fit into the equation? Lets look at some facts. Firstly, lets start with a benchmark. A dictionary definition of Independence might come in handy. Here’s one. Independence: being independent, free from the influence or control of others; self-governing. The workers of Ferguson’s shipyard on the lower Clyde desperate for outstanding state contracts to build ferries and fishery protection vessels would have an interest in the sort of independence that would allow government to direct work of this sort to indigenous industry to maintain essential skills and economic vitality to areas desperately in need of it. However, our mighty British government can’t do it – it would break EU competition rules to do so. Know what? Neither could Salmond’s "independent" Scottish government – nor any envisaged by either the Greens or Tommy Sheridan’s previous or current "socialist" parties! The same is true with regard to support or development aid to existing or new industry. Public investment in schools, hospitals, housing etc? NOT allowed under EU rules hence PPP/PFI and housing stock transfer under New Labour and the Tories, "public trusts" as proposed by the SNP and Lib Dems or whatever ruse or subterfuge tactic currently being suggested by any of the others. And these things are only the tip of the EU imposed iceberg! Ask them about VAT – the flat rate rich mans’ tax that they ALL support! Fishing policy, agricultural policy, proposals for new workplace laws and so on. Yes it is true, at root all these parties are ALL THE SAME! And the only conclusion that can be drawn is that whatever it is that is being offered in the name of Independence it can not by any reasonable definition be called INDEPENDENCE!! Why then, given the above, do all the parties focus so much on this one almost irrelevant question? Are they ignorant of reality? Possibly, try asking a candidate of any of these parties about any of the matters outlines above; chances are their eyes will glaze over within seconds. Perhaps it’s a case of them all being in cahoots and pulling the wool over the peoples’ eyes. Sounds a touch irrational maybe but, then, some of those same politicians DO know of these matters and when challenged, tacitly admit the points made above are true but say that that they’re not that significant. You make up your own mind. Referendum The SNP want a referendum on their independence proposals within the lifetime of the next Scottish Parliament. The other pro-independence (sic) parties are all attempting to "out-nationalist" each other by out doing each other on the same question. The Socialist Labour Party in Scotland states unequivocally that there can be NO independence for Scotland or Britain while we remain in the European Union – that’s why we’re in favour of withdrawal from the big business led EU. However, we’re interested in referenda too. If we have MSP’s elected on the 3rd May we’ll propose we have an immediate referendum on public ownership of all our public transport! We’ll follow that up with referenda on nationalisation of our natural energy reserves of oil, gas and coal and then look at taking control of our profiteering banks and building societies! We’re confident that the Scottish people will support those sort of policies and know what? That’s what needs to be done to achieve REAL independence! Vote SOCIALIST LABOUR on 3rd May 2007.
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A message fromBobby CochraneIrvine West council candidateThe Socialist Labour Party candidate for the new Irvine West council ward is to be Irvine man Bobby Cochrane. Bobby is a Plasterer by trade and is well known as a campaigner on a range of issues through the years. He is a former Labour councillor who was not afraid to stand up for people and causes whether popular or otherwise. Unlike some others Bobby does not have to invent a track record as a working class fighter! He promises, "if elected, as well as holding regular surgeries, I will organise frequent open meetings to allow constituents to propose and express views on matters before they are decided by the council. This would be a simple, straightforward but unique development that would encourage greater community involvement in council activities!"
Issues that deserve far greater priority within North Ayrshire Council are:
If elected I will be a strong voice for Irvine and I will not shrink from doing what is necessary to improve the lives of all our citizens." ON POLLING DAY VOTE
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13) LAUNCH OF MANIFESTO FOR WALES.
PRESS RELEASE
SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY
WALES
The Socialist Labour Party will launch
their manifesto on
Monday 23rd April at 2.30pm
in the Butcher's Arms, Llandaff, Cardiff.
Lead candiates John Cox and Liz Screen
will be present to answer questions as well as other candidates
and party members.
For further information contact:
Liz Screen on 07866 045 765 or at
lizscreen@onetel.net
Please go to Welsh regional page for the SLP Manifesto
for Wales.
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BBC SCOTLAND NEWS REPORT
15) SLP Scotland has launched it's manifesto please go to regional page. Scottish regional page click here
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