“We’ll use cash reserves to set a no cuts budget” was the Leicester Mercury headline when they reported our manifesto for the Leicester Mayoral and city council elections. The article went on to say that using reserves was “necessary in order to build a campaign to get the money from the Government we need for […]
With just 5 days until polling begins, Leicester Socialist Party hosted a public meeting earlier this afternoon to spell out our plan to fight all cuts if we are elected to city council. The meeting was wide-ranging, covering topics from cuts to local services, addressing the mental health crisis in our schools, the NHS, and […]
It’s a daily struggle to make ends meet for working-class people in Leicester, made worse by the cuts that the Labour council is making. Yet at a recent mayoral hustings meeting, Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby (a ‘left’ in the 1970s), had the audacity to criticise the record of Liverpool’s socialist Labour council in the 1980s […]
While some of Leicester’s 51 Labour Council candidates publicly back Jeremy Corbyn and say that if given the opportunity would vote to oppose cuts, the vast majority refuse to do so. Little wonder, then, that when Unison City Branch officially put to them a fighting strategy to stop the cuts in 2017, at that stage […]
On Friday 19 April Leicester Socialist Party candidates gathered outside the Town hall to launch their local election manifesto for the city. A copy of the manifesto can be founded online here, SP Manifesto 2019 The Key pledges in the document are: We will make no cuts in Leicester’s services by using reserves and borrowing […]
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Around 80 people attended a politically charged Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) public meeting last Saturday to discuss the planned reorganisation of Leicester’s hospitals. Speaking at the meeting was Sally Ruane, a local health policy academic and NHS campaigner, and Mark Wightman, the Director of Communications and Strategy for the local NHS Trust. But the […]
By Steve Score, former chair Save Glenfield Children’s Heart Centre and Leicester Socialist Party mayoral candidate In Leicester, spending on all council services, excluding social care, has been slashed by no less than 62% in ten years. This has had a devastating effect. Cuts have particularly hit the most vulnerable. When homelessness has been rocketing, […]
Steve Score, Socialist Party candidate in the city mayoral elections has pledged to only live on the wage of an average Leicester worker if elected. The city mayor takes home over £70,000 at the moment. The current basic allowance for every council member is £10,556 and the city mayor has a ‘special responsibility allowance’ on […]
Tom Barker, of Leicester Socialist Party put the case for a socialist Brexit at an EU debate on Thursday, organised by Leicester Young Labour. Blairite MP Liz Kendall and Rory Palmer MEP were due to speak, but unfortunately both backed out at the last minute. However, the Labour Parliamentary candidates for Loughborough and Nuneaton (Stuart Brady […]
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