Press Release

23.01.12 - Farepak Press Release.

The Farepak Victims Committee has called on the Government to intervene and speed up the liquidation process.

Louise McDaid, Chair of the FVC, commented, "It is simulteneously sad and a scandal that 200 people have died before receiving a single penny compensation due to the long drawn out process of liquidation yet the Banks and the Liquidators have been paid out. How can this immorality be justified?"

"I would urge everyone to support our Government E-Petition. There needs to be regulations put in place to stop this from ever happening again".

Louise McDaid - Chair, Deborah Harvey - Secretary.

Sign the e-petition by clicking here - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/18820

23.01.12 - The BBC apologise to the Socialist Labour Party.

The Socialist Labour Party can now report that following communication with SLP President Andrew Jordan the BBC have apologised for branding the SLP "now defunct".

The apology has met the criteria laid down by the Party in the letter sent to BBC Director-General on January 10th 2012 and so the Party now accepts the apology.

A written apology was sent to the Party and an on-air apology is scheduled to go out on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 29th January 2012.

Upon accepting the apology SLP President Andrew Jordan noted his anger that such a 'mistake' could have been made. He suggested that if the BBC had looked at election results from 2011 they would see that the SLP beat or achieved a similar number of votes returned when compared to the BNP, Green Party and UKIP.

Perhaps if the BBC gave the SLP as much media coverage as any one of these political parties throughout the year then programme editors would not make such mistakes.

The Socialist Labour Party would like to thank all those members and supporters that reported the BBC to Ofcom over this matter.