Conor O’Neill, Liverpool and Merseyside Socialist Party
As Keir Starmer’s Labour government continues its vicious attacks on working-class people, Sefton Labour has consistently done the bidding of big business with full control of the council chambers for 12 years. Over that time, residents of Sefton have seen massive cuts in both investment and public services, leaving libraries closed permanently in 2012, and public areas left in complete decline. At the full council meeting back in September, all sitting Labour councillors in attendance voted against a motion condemning Starmer and Reeves’s scrapping of the pensioners Winter Fuel Allowance in a vile attack on the elderly.
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has consistently put forward opposition to the cuts. I myself have stood multiple times in the neighbouring St Oswald Ward and achieved a respectable vote share on an explicitly socialist alternative, putting our ideas firmly back on the agenda again.
Anyone interested in protecting our pensioners, our young people and the working class as a whole would be best placed to vote for Conor Anthony O’Neill, the TUSC candidate, on 21 November.
