‘The largest party you’ve never heard of’


Ronnie Job, TUSC Swansea West parliamentary candidate

The radio this morning keeps talking about the seven largest parties contesting seats in Parliament. There’s one party missing from that list – TUSC.

It is this lack of media coverage that led political blogger, Alex Woolley of 50for15.com, to describe TUSC as “the largest party that you’ve never heard of.”

TUSC has 135 parliamentary candidates standing alongside 619 council candidates. TUSC is contesting 12 of the 40 parliamentary constituencies in Wales (30%), 113 of the 533 seats in England (21%), and 10 of the 59 Scottish constituencies (17%).

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We can’t expect large donations like the £1.5 million that Unite the Union has given to Labour to fight the election, but we have successfully inspired thousands of ordinary people to make donations large or small because they would not otherwise have anybody to vote for in this election.

Workers, trade unionists and working class people need our own party – the bosses already have them in a number of party colours, including Labour red.

50for15 has identified 50 ‘marginal’ seats in the election and is visiting each of them to get a flavour of campaigning. This includes Swansea where Alex, on behalf of 50for15, visited TUSC supporters campaigning on a Saturday.

  • See the blog report on TUSC at 50for15.com/2015/04/01/tusc-the-largest-political-party-that-youve-never-heard-of

  • Don’t miss the TUSC election broadcast on 17 April on BBC2 at 5.55pm, ITV at 6.25pm, BBC1 at 6.55pm, and Channel 4 at 7.55pm
  • See the BBC’s report of the TUSC manifesto launch at bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015 32254035

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is an electoral alliance involving the RMT transport union, the Socialist Party, other socialist groups and leading members of other trade unions. This May TUSC is standing 135 candidates in the general election and 619 in the local elections.