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SALFORD TUSC CANDIDATES ATTACK NON DOM LABOUR CANDIDATES
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Star date: 13th April 2015 TUSC ATTACKS `INSULT' OF POTENTIAL MPS WHO DON'T LIVE IN SALFORD TUSC General Election candidates have fired the first personal shots of this year's campaign by accusing the Labour Party of fielding candidates who don't live in Salford. "I think it's insulting that Salford could end up with two Labour MPs - neither of whom who live in our city" says Steven North, TUSC candidate for Worsley and Eccles South "How can you represent somewhere when you don't even know what is going on in that area on a day to day basis? This is the ultimate example of Labour taking votes for granted." Of the main parties' candidates, who does and doesn't live in Salford? Click here to find out...
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TUSC ( Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) candidates have come out fighting in their General Election campaign, accusing favourites Labour of fielding potential MPs who don't live in Salford... "I've lived in this constituency nearly all of my life" says Steven North TUSC candidate for Worsley and Eccles South "I'm proud to live here and I'll stay here if I'm elected. I think it's insulting that Salford could end up with two Labour MPs - neither of whom who live in our city. How can you represent somewhere when you don't even know what is going on in that area on a day to day basis? This is the ultimate example of Labour taking votes for granted and it's time we put a stop to it." His sentiments were underlined by fellow TUSC anti-cuts candidate Noreen Bailey who is standing in Salford and Eccles... "I have lived in Salford for over fifty years, worked here and brought up my children here" she says "I am shocked that not one of the candidates for the so called mainstream parties, including and especially Labour, live in Salford ." The Salford Star had a quick look at the mainstream party candidates in all three of the Salford constituencies up for grabs. Unsurprisingly, no-one is keen to give out their home address but here's what we found... Within the Labour Party, Rebecca Long Bailey, who is standing for Salford and Eccles, is a solicitor based in Cheshire; Graham Stringer, current MP for Blackley and Broughton, we assume, lives somewhere in East Manchester and definitely not in Salford; and, last time we delved, Barbara Keeley, MP for Worsley and Eccles South, lived in Sale. Within the Conservative Party, Greg Downes, candidate for Salford and Eccles is a Lancastrian vicar working in North Yorkshire; Michelle Tanfield-Johnson, candidate for Blackley and Broughton, sits as a councillor for Fenland District Council, and Iain Lindley, candidate for Worsley and Eccles South, lives in Worsley. For the full list of candidates standing in Salford – click here.
Photo of Noreen Bailey and Steven North by Steven Speed
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David cameron wrote
at 11:25:42 on 15 April 2015 |
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| Got this off the southern daily Ecco.......
Southampton Old Lady wrote:
I am not a big supporter of the Labour party locally and I know that UKIP is gaining ground nationally. But Pearline or any other candidate would have to go a long way to beat Alan Whitehead (Labour) who has been an outstanding MP for Southampton for decades.
I had an appointment to see Allan Whitehead at one of his clinics. It was cancelled for him to whizz off to his French holiday home. Everyone was asked to come a day early instead so the waiting time was very long...
55 Good reasons why I cant vote labour......
1) Up to 50 thousand 'excess' deaths were recorded at hospitals during the last Labour Government. (Research by Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College)....
2) The 'Bedroom Tax' was part of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 proposed by Labour.
3) Between 1997 to 2010 gas prices rose 133% and electricity prices rose 69%. Why would the public ever trust Labour on energy prices again?....
4) The devastating impact of Labour's raid on pensions: The tax grab has cost workers £118bn since 1997. (Office for Budget Responsibility)....
5) Labour spent £148.7 million on a National Measurements Office which forces traders to measure their goods in kilograms rather than pounds.....
6) The Royal Mail is now sold because of EU Postal Directive 2008/6/EC, brought in by the last Labour government....
7) Council Tax doubled under Labour - 105% increase in England, 146% Wales. (The Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy: 26/03/09)....
8) In 2012/13 Labour councils employed nearly 23,000 people on zero-hour contracts.....
9) £660 million has been cut from Labour run NHS Wales over the last three years according to the Welsh TUC.....
10) When Labour came to power in 1997, spending on NHS managers was less than £190m. By 2010 this had increased by 450% to over £1bn per year.....
11) Labour wasted £11bn of taxpayers money on a failed IT project which was eventually scrapped by the NHS in 2013....
12) Labour lumbered the NHS with vast PFI repayments - £50 billion worth of loans which are costing £300 billion in repayments....
13) It was the Labour Party who awarded the DWP Medical Services Contract to ATOS on the 15th March 2005....
14) Labour started the privatisation of the NHS. They brought in the 2006 NHS Act that introduced competition into the NHS....
15) Labour introduced competition into the NHS: Competition Act 1998, Enterprise Act 2002 & Public Sector Procurement Regulations 2006.....
16) In 2006 Gordon Brown cut the flood defence budget by £14 million...
17) Youth unemployment rose by more than 40% during Labour's 13 years in office.....
18) Total stock of social housing fell under Labour - 421,000 homes were lost from the social housing stock between 1997 and 2010.....
19) British manufacturing grew by 28% between 1980 and 1997. Then, under Labour, it shrank by 6%: falling from 20% of GDP to just 11%.....
20) Labour left a deficit of £156 billion, PFI liability of £301 billion, EU Rebate loss £9.3 billion, Sold the Gold, loss £6 billion.....
21) The last Labour government spent so much money on Labour cronies that it had a 5% structural deficit at the height of the boom....
22) The use of food banks went up tenfold under Labour. From 3,000 users in 2005/06 to over 40,000 by 2009/10. (The Trussell Trust/C4 FactCheck).....
23) When Labour's Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, UK public debt was 44.1% of GDP. When he left in 2010, it was 148.1%.....
24) Only 6,330 council houses were completed from 1998 to 2010 under Labour, compared with 17,710 in 1990 alone - Thatcher's final year as PM....
25) Tony Blair gave away a chunk of the UK's EU rebate estimated now to have cost the UK £9.3 billion between 2007-2013.....
26) In 2010 Gordon Brown branded Rochdale voter Gillian Duffy "a bigoted woman" for daring to voice her concern about uncontrolled immigration....
27) Labour are now complaining about gambling. But they were the ones who wanted to build Super Casinos in some of the poorest areas in Britain.....
28) Labour closed more mines in 5 years than Thatcher did in 11 years.. 211 mines closed under Wilson 1965-70.. 154 under Thatcher 1979-90....
29) Under Labour zero hour contracts increased by 74% between 2004 - 2009....
30) Since Labour liberalised the law in 2000 to allow postal voting on demand, the number of postal voting fraud in Labour areas has soared....
31) Labour wants to charge patients. Lord Warner said people should pay a £10-a-month fee to use NHS/£20 for every night they stay in hospital....
32) Labour signed the Lisbon Treaty which gave away powers to the EU and reduced UK sovereignty and the power of our Westminster Parliament.....
33) Labour were responsible for the rise in payday lenders. Now they are campaigning against them.....
34) Labour presided over the slowest growth in 50 years and produced the fastest decline in British manufacturing since manufacturing began.....
35) Labour destroyed our border controls then with the help of the BBC denounced anybody who voiced concerns about mass immigration as racists....
36) Labour councils are the biggest users of zero contracts....
37) Under Labour between 1997 to 2010 the gap between rich and poor got wider....
38) The last Labour government doubled the rate of income tax on the lowest paid.....
39) Labour allowing Muslim terrorists to set up a Fifth column within Britain and tying our armed forces and security services hands behind their backs when trying to deal with them.
40) Labour MPs to remember: Denis MacShane (jailed), David Chaytor (jailed), Eric Illsley (jailed), Elliot Morley (jailed), Jim Devine (jailed)....
41) Blair invaded Iraq and Brown invaded the Treasury, both actions crippled us....
42) Labour opposes democracy in Britain by denying the British people a referendum on EU membership...
43) Labour Party Manifesto Pledge 2001: 'We will not introduce top-up fees'....
44) One of the reasons for high energy prices is EU driven 'Green Taxes' brought in by the last Labour government....
45) It was Labour under Blair who handed control of British food regulation to the EU, (Regulation EC no 178/2002)....
46) Remember when Tony Blair and Labour essentially traded guns for access to oil with Libya.....
47) The Labour Party paid only £14,000 in tax last year on total income of £33.3 million. (The Spectator, 30/07/2014).....
48) If Ed Miliband can easily stab his own brother in the back, imagine what he will do to us if he ever becomes Prime Minister...../
49) Wars."....
50) labour introduced university tuition fee's......
51) labour turned a blind eye to the rape of white school girls up and down the country by Asian Muslim men.....
52) labours Gordon brown deregulated the banks from the Bank of England, so causing the financial black whole this country in now in....
53) Labour claims to be the party of the working man, but they have absolutely destroyed the working class through mass immigration....
54) labour councils targeting the most vulnerable in society with cuts to try and beat the Tories...
55) labour told us the Olympic Games would cost us £2.5 billion, the price of a walnut whip each, total cost £12 billion....
Couldn't have said it any better |
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Steven Nortjh wrote
at 19:23:19 on 14 April 2015 |
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| We've just found out now that Barbara Keeley has pulled out of the hustings organised in Walkden for this weekend.
Now she might have a pressing personal reason so I don't want to jump to conclusions, but if not it's pretty poor that the sitting MP not only can't be bothered to live in the constituency, but isn't even prepared to answer the questions of those who do!
In terms of the point "Poor Show" makes, I think you're pointing fingers at the wrong people if you are seeking to blame poorly paid Council staff for the fact that protesters are being taken to court. Those same Council staff - despite being warned by the Council that it could be in breach of their contracts of employment- have backed their union in opposing fracking and have demonstrated with protestors outside the Civic. The response they got from some of the anti-fracking protestors was to be called scum and told they weren't welcome because they had the temerity to do a £15k a year Admin job. Hardly a way to build bridges.
Just as a person working on the cashier counter at Royal Bank fo Scotland for £15k a year is not Fred Goodwin, a Salford City Council employee is not Ian Stewart. |
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Billy A wrote
at 19:59:02 on 13 April 2015 |
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| The irony is laughable, most people voting for Labour posh totty Long-bailey will be doing so because they hate the "rich, posh, got it better than us" Tories. Oh the irony..............LOL |
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Poor show wrote
at 17:49:18 on 13 April 2015 |
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| If you want to know the depths of GMP have a look at this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-JNCjxwwIs again Labour in Manchester are behind this.
If you want to help the people of Salford Steve you should ask your members to stop dealing with the council issued courts summons, it not legal and your members are probable breaking the law.
You stop that and then there can be some real change.
Are the unions really supporting the decent and honest council staff of whom there are not many left.
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Doorman wrote
at 15:21:35 on 13 April 2015 |
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| That Bez is not from Salford either |
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Steven North wrote
at 14:40:30 on 13 April 2015 |
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| Chaz, I think you'll find we've taken Labout to task plenty of times over their hypocritical approach to fracking and organised numoerus demonstrations and public meetings against the cuts and austerity. Nobody's pretending that this is the biggest issue facing the electorate, but if we are to have representative democracy the people representing us must surely share in our experiences. If Labour are elected to the three seats - as they are favourites to be - Salford will not have a single MP who lives in Salford. That would be a terrible state of affairs. It isn't about where they are from originally. Thta doesn;t matter one iota. It's where they are now and whether they are committed to Salford and it's people. I seriously doubt that they are. |
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Chaz wrote
at 11:21:06 on 13 April 2015 |
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| Not from round 'ere? Seriously?! THATS what they're attacking Labour with?!?
Hows about the Labour Party who sat down with Peel, GMP and iGas to organise the routine beating and brutalisation of brave honorable Salfordians whilst one of their MPs squalidly milked political capital out of an "anti fracking" stance and yet never showed up once at Barton Moss and sat on her shameful hands during the Infrastructure Bill vote?!?!
Up your game now!!!! |
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life is loud wrote
at 11:18:29 on 13 April 2015 |
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| Anyone can stand in any area you dont have to live in it |
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