Letter to Ed Miliband sent today:
Stop being distracted by the Tories. The Unions founded the Labour
party, which used to be the party of the workers now translated in
to the "squeezed middle class". There are plenty of curbs already in
place to ensure that head office still get the final say to impose
"career" politicians on us all. Instead concentrate on the real
issues we are all worried about:
The demonisation of the poor and the cuts in welfare
Ditto the unemployed
The reason for the growing use of food banks
This government's failure to get the economy going
Privatisation of our NHS
Privatisation of our Royal Mail
Privatisation of our education services
Unemployment
Abandonment of human rights
Abandoning the EU
I could go on..........................
You know as well as I do that the figures for welfare payments given
out by this government persistently include state pensions which is
by far the largest portion and is included to scare people into
believing how high the benefits bill is and the need to get these
feckless poor people ground down. I never thought I would live to
see such total abandonment of social responsibility even by the
Tories.
It is these sorts of lies the Labour party should be countermanding.
Not faffing about concentrating on picking out bits of fluff from
its procedural navel, while the appalling dismantling of this
country's social fabric is being carried out by this appalling Tory
party of rich neo-con toffs and their Lib Dem poodles.
Get back to being a party in opposition. Stop reacting to every
little diversion the Tories and their media mates throw in your
path.
I wait in vain to hear a Labour party I can believe is on my side.
Janet Woods
Lifetime Socialist and proud of it.
And now supported by Richard Woods, ditto.
