Unpopular with who?
Sir Keir Starmer talked again about ‘unpopular’ policies at Labour conference. Wouldn’t it be great if he really was prepared to implement ‘unpopular’ policies? Like an immediate tax on wealth? That would be unpopular … with the wealthy.
Nationalisation of the water companies and energy companies? Unpopular … with the shareholders currently getting money for nothing, that is. Nationalisation of all properties with dangerous cladding? Very unpopular…with landlords refusing to take responsibility. As well as repealing the Minimum Service Levels Act, how about repealing the rest of the Tory anti-union laws? Unpopular?
In a class-divided society where the interests of the working class and owning class are in direct conflict, it’s aways good to ask, unpopular with who?
Unite the union member
Hypocritical, devious Labour
After signing the petition against the Labour Party’s disgraceful and devious decision to stop the Winter Fuel Allowance for millions of pensioners, I wanted to let you know about the actions I have taken over the last month or so.
I have informed my local Labour MP Ruth Jones that, after listening to the excuses trying to defend this outrageous and wicked decision, I will never again vote for Labour.
I first voted for Labour in 1979, and have been a member of the party alongside my father for a number of years, attending meetings, plus actually helping Neil and Glenys Kinnock in his bid to win the 1992 election. I am absolutely gobsmacked at the arrogance and contempt which Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall seem to be showing for the people who voted for the party in July.
I am awaiting Ruth getting back to me. I have also written to Liz Kendall about the way she and the party seem to be following the Tories and vilifying anyone who happens to be claiming benefits, threatening vulnerable and disabled people that they may well have their benefits reduced or in fact ceased, as they try to force already struggling people to return to work when they are in no fit state.
My reasons are personal. I have been forced to give up work after being diagnosed with diverticulitis. I am a very fit and healthy 64 year old in most other aspects. I am sick to death of first the Conservative Party and now this lying Labour Party patronising me and many others by insisting we are fit to work.
As I explained in my letter, I used to work in the Job Centre. I have worked all my life. My condition has forced me to basically retire at 61 and struggle on benefits, which has been very difficult.
Thankfully I am someone who can stick up for myself and challenge authority in the right manner, but others cannot. Many of these people who are disabled or on long-term sick, with all kinds of conditions, will end up sinking into a more serious mental health condition.
Ruth Jones mentioned me in the House of Commons a few years back as I wrote seven letters to Boris Johnson demanding an apology. She is now back as my MP because of boundary changes and I am hopeful that she will soon take up the matter with Liz Kendall’s office; she already knows I have turned my back on Keir Starmer and Labour.
Quite how my father would have felt about this decision to stop the winter fuel allowance is beyond me. He is probably turning in his grave.
We were members of the Labour Party because it was the political party which looked after the working class, that helped others who were not so fortunate. It was a party that stood up for the weak and helpless, stood up for its fellow man, woman and child, and always kept an eye on its elderly neighbours and people who could not have a voice.
Well it has certainly changed now.
It has lost its soul and it appears that they are all prepared to accept the gifts and hospitality, clothes, holidays etc. They are just as bad as the Conservative MPs who took the public for fools and treated us with contempt. If Keir Starmer has to go into a hospitality box at Arsenal matches, he could do what others have to do and bloody pay for it!
Listening to the speeches at the party conference left me wondering whether Starmer, Reeves, Kendall, Rayner and many others have the same type of principles as the clowns who the country voted out in July? Mark my words, the country wasn’t impressed with Starmer. We were all just fed up of the lies and hypocrisy from the Conservative government. Well, it appears Labour are just as hypocritical and devious as them!
Will Foley, Risca, South Wales
