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Fat Cat at Wakefield Mayor's Ball
"AT LAST, I've got someone I can vote for!" exclaimed the traffic warden as he looked over to the Socialist Party stall being set up outside Wakefield Town Hall.
Alistair Tice
It was the placard saying: "Mick Griffiths vows only to accept a worker's wage", which caught the eye of this former Labour voting ex-miner who had decided never to vote Labour again.
Our Socialist Alliance manifesto launch didn't get any press coverage but it did cause a stir at the Town Hall.
We hired a Fat Cat pulling the strings of Blair, Hague and Kennedy.
This was to highlight ourselves as an alternative to the big business parties.
Our stunt coincided with the 'Mayor-making' ceremony at the town hall, so very nervous council staff called security and the police to have us moved on.
As this was only the day after the 'Prescott-egg', I think they were all a bit worried that our Fat Cat was going to invite himself to the Mayor's ball.
If only we'd planned it...!
In this issue
 Keep The Private Vultures Out
Break The Chains Of Poverty
Labour's union links crack at seams
Asylum - Labour and Tories up the stakes
Fat Cat at Wakefield Mayor's Ball
Socialist Alliance hits the airwaves
Students and Socialist councillors fight fees' threats
Green Party - A serious Left alternative?
Plaid Cymru - good old fashioned socialism?
SNP: Standing up for big business
Law and order: Soft on a criminal system
No to a bosses' Europe: Fight for workers' unity
Middle East - Edging closer to all-out war
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