Vote SSP in Glasgow North East

Voice Reporter Posted by on October 17, 2009. Filed under Elections,Glasgow North East. Posted with the tags:
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Throughout the summer SSP members have been campaigning in the Glasgow North East constituency.

With Labour’s fear of facing the voters meaning the date of the by-election being sometime in November at the earliest, we have taken the opportunity to talk to as many as people as possible about the need for a socialist alternative to the greed of the free market and the politicians that support it.

The overwhelming opinion is that all politicians are pretty much crooks and liars, which has made the SSP’s policy of a workers MP on a workers wage more relevant than ever.

If we can get beyond the understandable cynicism that people feel about the whole political process, then explaining that the SSP is challenging all candidates to live on the average wage of a worker in the constituency and not the £64,000 an MP earns, before expenses, almost always receives a positive response.
Glasgow North East is a constituency that already knows too much about the impact of capitalist crisis.
Once at the hub of Glasgow’s manufacturing might this is an area that has been blighted by mass unemployment and chronic low pay for decades.
With all the mainstream parties promising more of the same as they seek to claw back the billions given to the bankers through cuts in public spending, the SSP is putting opposition to unemployment at the heart of our campaign.

The SSP will not allow another generation of young people in Glasgow to be wasted by the neglect of the free market.

We will fight to defend benefits, but it should be ‘jobs not giros’ for young people who could be employed in massively improving housing provision and developing public transport links amongst many other much needed improvements in Glasgow North East.

Its for that reason that we are organising a march for jobs in the constituency on 31 October, making sure the media circus, that will otherwise be focusing on the petty stunts of politicians, is presented with the reality facing too many in the constituency of fighting to keep and get some work.

It isn’t only jobs that have been taken from the different areas of the constituency, but key facilities like local schools have been closed as well.

Labour in Glasgow have butchered schools across the city and parents have been left to pick up the pieces since the start of term, often facing unwelcome and at times worrying journeys for their kids to and from their schools.

The fact that the City Council has now admitted that school rolls have been rising and not falling as they claimed to justify these closures is further proof of the contempt Labour has for its traditional supporters.

The SSP is continuing the fight to defend education and for class sizes where ‘20’s plenty’, a policy the SNP administration in Edinburgh is in full retreat from.

Every weekend SSP members are out arguing the case for socialism in Glasgow North East.

Why don’t you join us and build a campaign that will leave a lasting legacy of involving another generation in the fight for jobs and a better future than any of the bosses party have on offer.