Tom - supporting Postal Workers fighting to defend Royal Mail – the other Parties are keen to sell it!

The three main parties have supported privatisation with disastrous effects. Tom thinks our services should be owned and run for the benefit of all of us – not for the profits of selfish bankers and billionaires.

Labels: Public Services

Dear Romsey Resident,

Like many of you, I am angry about MPs’ expenses. We struggle to pay household bills whilst they claim on a second home. We pay to use ‘public’ swimming pools and transport but fund some MPs to have their own.

But the real hypocrisy is that all three political parties have told us there is not enough to pay decent wages, guarantee pensions or build high quality public housing. At the same time they have secured these things for themselves and their friends.

Gordon Brown spent £1.5 trillion bailing out the banks’ ‘toxic debt’ – ‘money’ created through ‘complex techniques’. We were already paying this in mortgages, pensions and loans - now they want us to pay again in future taxes!

If the bailout money was spent on local communities it would mean £150 million for each council ward – imagine what that could provide in Romsey! Just 1/50th of the money would double the state pensions for all.

All three parties supported the bail out – creative accounting underpins their economics. The money should be spent on pensions, jobs, public services and key environmental issues. Taxes should be spent directly on services and amenities.

So why have multinationals been allowed to run local buses for vast profits whilst cutting routes and raising fares? Why are local councillors encouraging private firms to profit from healthcare, sheltered housing and other services in Romsey and Cambridgeshire.

Now the Tories, Lib Dems and New Labour want to privatise Royal Mail allowing ‘investors’ to put prices up, cut ‘unprofitable’ services and push down our wages.

We should fight for a society run on the basis of NEED NOT GREED.

Help bring about in Romsey by giving me you vote in the
County Council elections on the 4th June.

Yours
Tom Woodcock
Independent Candidate
07712893552 / woodcocktom@hotmail.com

We demonstrated outside the Ford showroom in Cambridge last week to help keep up the pressure on the motor giants , who have treated Visteon workers so badly!

We now have something to celebrate as Visteon workers have won a major victory against one of the biggest and most powerful multinational companies in the world – Ford.

The workers used to be employed by Ford until 2000 and were sacked at the end of last month. Ford tried to avoid its responsibilities, claiming that it owed the workers nothing.

But workers’ action has forced Ford to offer hundreds of thousands of pounds in redundancy packages. Many workers will get £40,000 or more. It is one of the biggest payouts that Ford has ever offered.

Unite union reps are recommending that workers accept the offer. They are due to vote on it later today.

Levent Adnan worked at the Enfield site for over 17 years. “This is a massive result for us,” he told Socialist Worker. “We’ve managed to beat a massive corporation. Ford and Visteon have had their fingers burnt.

“The threat of taking action to Ford was the turning point. This offer sets a new benchmark too – if Ford try to sack workers elsewhere they won’t be able to just do it and give people nothing.

“People can see now that if you put up a strong enough fight you can win. This is a victory for workers and it’s about time we won something.”