Leicester Socialist Party Election Manifesto

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 powers.
• No to privatisation: Council services that have been ‘outsourced’ should be taken back in-house.
• We will use the mayoral and council positions to build a campaign, like the one that saved Glenfield Children’s Heart Centre only even bigger, to force the money we need from the government to keep services running.
• Build 1,000 more council homes per year as a step to solving Leicester’s housing crisis.
• Invest in public transport. For a massively improved and council owned bus service as part of improving the environment. Reverse cuts in bus services.
• Organise a referendum on scrapping the mayoral system by the time of the following election. Let’s include the people of Leicester in decision making. In the meantime, we want a Mayor who lives on a worker’s wage.
• Use the role the council has in the local NHS to fight to increase the number of beds and capacity in local hospitals and to oppose cuts and privatisation in the NHS.
• Reverse cuts in welfare rights. Campaign to reverse cuts in benefits and scrap Universal Credit.