Over the last 6 weeks the Romsey Respect team has put out three excellent leaflets, we have knocked on every door and spoken to one third of the electorate in Romsey.
We have also collected over 200 signatures from council tenant, so that Tenants Against Privatisation could present the case to the council against closing sheltered housing. Sam and I have asked questions at full council meetings.
We have collected nearly 500 signatures against the privatisation and development of Parkside fire station and informed people of the issues involved. We have helped promotes and supported two well attended stop the war meetings, a national demonstation against the war and a Trades Council march and Rally to defend public services.
Many of Respect's members have also been involved in the pensions campaign, organising and supporting strike action across public sector unions. We are working hard on a national and local level to resist the increase in retirement age, which we so strongly feel to be wrong and weighted so unfairly against working people. All three parties are using the 'modern world' as an exuse for worsening standards of living. We believe standards of living should be getting better - are we mad?
Whilst we are trying to inform the public New Labour and Lib Dems in Romsey have tried extremely hard to divert attention away from the issues we face in the 21st Century. They both want the electorate to think that the local council election is only about recycling and bins. This is to avoid the bigger issues at both local and national level.
Poor planning decision are being made by both Prescott and our local Lib Dem's, they lack environmental clarity and have no vision in terms of an integrated transport system. The corporate destruction of the environment, endless war and the massive privatisation of our services are all part of the political road being taken by the three main parties.
Even though local government does have less powers than it ought to this is not an excuse for keeping the public in the dark. We believe that our role is to provide information about what is going on and we will continue to raise the bigger issues and keep Romsey resident informed.
It is also not acceptable to implement central governments plans without a fight. If the local Labour party and the Lib Dem council believed in council run services then they would, and should, be protesting to central government, as well as talking to other councils and organising resistance to the mass privatisation agenda.
We have now established the beginnings of this resistance in Romsey. If all of the people who have shown supported for our ideas go out and vote for us tomorrow, we will take that resistance to both the city and county council chambers. We will then continue to builds the confidence needed to reject privatisation and war and the environmental disasters waiting to happen if the political establishment are allowed to continue.
Don’t forget to go and vote for RESPECT!
We have also collected over 200 signatures from council tenant, so that Tenants Against Privatisation could present the case to the council against closing sheltered housing. Sam and I have asked questions at full council meetings.
We have collected nearly 500 signatures against the privatisation and development of Parkside fire station and informed people of the issues involved. We have helped promotes and supported two well attended stop the war meetings, a national demonstation against the war and a Trades Council march and Rally to defend public services.
Many of Respect's members have also been involved in the pensions campaign, organising and supporting strike action across public sector unions. We are working hard on a national and local level to resist the increase in retirement age, which we so strongly feel to be wrong and weighted so unfairly against working people. All three parties are using the 'modern world' as an exuse for worsening standards of living. We believe standards of living should be getting better - are we mad?
Whilst we are trying to inform the public New Labour and Lib Dems in Romsey have tried extremely hard to divert attention away from the issues we face in the 21st Century. They both want the electorate to think that the local council election is only about recycling and bins. This is to avoid the bigger issues at both local and national level.
Poor planning decision are being made by both Prescott and our local Lib Dem's, they lack environmental clarity and have no vision in terms of an integrated transport system. The corporate destruction of the environment, endless war and the massive privatisation of our services are all part of the political road being taken by the three main parties.
Even though local government does have less powers than it ought to this is not an excuse for keeping the public in the dark. We believe that our role is to provide information about what is going on and we will continue to raise the bigger issues and keep Romsey resident informed.
It is also not acceptable to implement central governments plans without a fight. If the local Labour party and the Lib Dem council believed in council run services then they would, and should, be protesting to central government, as well as talking to other councils and organising resistance to the mass privatisation agenda.
We have now established the beginnings of this resistance in Romsey. If all of the people who have shown supported for our ideas go out and vote for us tomorrow, we will take that resistance to both the city and county council chambers. We will then continue to builds the confidence needed to reject privatisation and war and the environmental disasters waiting to happen if the political establishment are allowed to continue.
Don’t forget to go and vote for RESPECT!
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