Kevin Bennett calls on Warrington Labour to reject austerity

The Warrington Guardian yesterday carried a message from Kevin Bennett, a local TUSC spokesperson, Socialist Party member, and former Labour Party councillor. Kevin resigned from the Labour Party in January 2015 after being indefinitely suspended for voting against a council cuts budget. After his resignation he became a councillor for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC).

Excerpt from a report in the Warrington Guardian titled 'Momentum Warrington urges members to unite and back Jeremy Corbyn':

The town's TUSC spokesman and former Fairfield and Howley councillor Kevin Bennett, who resigned from the Labour Party last January had a message for Warrington's Labour group after seeing Mr Corbyn storm to victory.

He said:

"I was the only councillor on Warrington Borough Council to publicly endorse Mr Corbyn last year for the leadership of the Labour Party, therefore I am so pleased that he has won his second leadership battle in 12 months.

"All the efforts of the parliamentary Labour Party to oust Mr Corbyn have come to nothing - Jeremy has been re-elected by a huge margin.

"Warrington Labour should now become reconciled to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and the prospect of Labour becoming an anti-austerity party.

"All sections of the Labour movement should now come together and create a party for the working class and the most vulnerable in our society.

"Trade union representation within the Labour Party, when democratically exercised by union members, provides a potential means for the working class to control its political representatives.

"I hope that Warrington Labour realises that we have to support Mr Corbyn all the way to 2020 and take the fight to this Tory Government."

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