General Election – Campaign News
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“In the forthcoming general election we urge critical support for candidates according to the following priority order…Other leftwing candidates: eg, the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain, Socialist Party of Great Britain,..”…So they do recommend ourselves but only IF not contested by 15 named Labour Party candidates, LU and TUSC candidates. We do rate low in their pecking order which is to be fully expected, of course. http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1050/framing-our-electoral-tactics/
They have also supported our own spoiled ballot paper tactic"Where there is no supportable candidate, the CPGB urges voters to spoil their ballot papers with some suitable message: eg, ‘For socialism’ "So no lesser evil, vote labour without illusions holding your noses recommndation as from others on the Left and have come out against any nationalists , even the left-nationalists of the SSP…No doubt inviting the wrath of being accused of sectarianism…the CPGB frequently taking that mantle from oursleves these days
I'm sure it will be raised in the hustings or elsewhere that Russel Brand expressed the anarchistic anti-politics message to not vote.I think this has been clarified by him'What I said was, 'There's nothing worth voting for.' That's why I don't vote . . . . . . If there was someone worth voting for, I'd vote for it and I'd encourage other people if they think that there is a political party that represents their views; if they think there are politicians that are speaking on their behalf, by all means vote for them . . . …He says that he'll vote when there is a political party who will take on the "financial economic elites and corporate entities", but notes such a party would be difficult to create due to "global trade agreements which prevent that kind of thing happening at a national level"…'…I’m not saying don’t vote, I’m just saying it doesn’t make any difference . . . There’s no one to vote for'. "http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/russell-brand-occupies-wall-street-and-calls-for-revolution-again-9798218.html So our model answer is that he would be voting for ourselves as we tick all the right boxes.
Another defector from the Tories and currently a UKIP MEP for the South East, Janice Atkinson, who was due to contest Folkestone & Hythe in the forthcoming General Election, one of the constituencies in which we are standing, has been suspended "following allegations of a serious financial nature".http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-31976343Speaking to BBC Radio Kent, UKIP leader Nigel Farage told the BBC a disciplinary hearing would be held "early next week".He said: "It looks very bad – it couldn't look worse and I'm astonished by it."Farage commented that it was too early to say whether Atkinson would be allowed to run for UKIP in Folkestone and Hythe.He said: "I spoke to her after midnight and she said it was all to do with bills and fundraising – I was frankly confused by it all."He added: "I simply couldn't believe it – how on earth could anyone think they could behave like this."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_AtkinsonSome of us met her in a local pub during electoral activity in the Rochester & Strood by-election last November.http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/general-discussion/rochester-and-strood-election-20th-november-2014?page=3#comment-18133
Yes, I remember her in Rochester. She was telling us that the Tories had become a party of toffs that had betrayed working-class Tories. The false invoice seems to have been a way of getting more expenses as a MEP for UKIP funds. It seems that UKIP has turned into a party of upstart wide boys (and girls) that was never going to do anything for the working class anyway.
Two coming meetings in Oxford:
Quote:Tuesday 24 March, 7.30. Public meeting on “The Human Cost of Privatisation”, organised by Oxfordshire Keep Our NHS Public and Oxford and District Trade Union Council. Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate's, Oxford OX1 1DPOxford candidates have been told they will be invited to speak from the floor if they turn up (this is not a hustings). Our candidate in Oxford East, Kevin Parker, will be there. Also, no doubt, TUSC candidate who we've not yet met.
Quote:Tuesday 31 March, 7.30. 38 Degrees lobby group’s Oxford East Hustings. Fusion Arts centre in Princes Street OX4 1DD – behind the East Oxford Community Centre on Cowley Road.We've been invited to this. So have Oxfam and Christian Aid.
Speaking of UKIP, here's something I found on a link for the KentOnline provided by Gnome, from the Rochester n Strood by-election last November, when Britain First tried to march through Rochester.It's from the comments section of the article. I've highlighted the quote from Farage, that could be of use for any members if they find themselves needing any more of UKIP's anti working class credentials.
Quote:The following speech by Nigel Farage has not been widely circulated by our UK right-wing Establishment press. This is odd because many of the movers and shakers of their industry were in the audience. Farage’s presentation was well received.Farage spoke of the legacy of the Great War to a packed audience on 10th November 2014, as the guest speaker for the annual Tom Olsen Lecture at St Bride's Church – this is the church in Fleet Street, London, the spiritual home of UK journalism.Farage said he wanted to remind people that "we were fighting to do the decent thing; we were fighting, ultimately, for our way of life". Nearly 300 guests attended the sold-out event, including many of the most prominent faces in print journalism. Yet Farage made several points in his lecture that challenged historical orthodoxy, including claiming that the Armistice was "the biggest mistake of the entire 20th century". He argued that the British Army should have instead continued with the advance and forced the German Army into unconditional surrender. He said:“I believe we should have continued with the advance We should have pursued the war for a further six weeks, and gone for an unconditional surrender. Yes the last six weeks of the war cost us 100,000 casualties, and I’m prepared to accept that a further six weeks of war might have cost us another 100,000."This is an inappropriate comment made by the leader of a party that is unfit to govern. When are people going to wake up and realize the truth about UKIP? If this is his bellicose outlook towards the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles, how can we trust this man if he were to gain power; a man with so little regard for human life. If another war were to break out, would his answer be to just throw UK citizen after UK citizen into the fray with the hope that it would somehow stop the problem?UKIP supporters can red-thumb me all they like – but I say that this information is important to help voters understand Farage’s ethics and values. Even worse is the fact that his speech, on such a sensitive issue, was NOT widely reported at all.http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/breaking-britain-first-stand-off-27043/Here's a Huffington Post link about the same Farage history lesson.http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/12/nigel-farage-armistice-_n_6144586.html
Brief reference to our candidate Andy Thomas, standing in Folkestone & Hythe, in the latest edition of Kent on Sunday. Page 21.http://www.kentnews.co.uk/home/e-edition
jondwhite has commented on: "General Election – Campaign News" —- Although the CPGB-PCC supported the SPGB at the 2014 Euroelection, a letter in Weekly Worker today states they were campaigning for Left Unity party in Vauxhall where an SPGB candidate is standing. http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1050/letters/ %5B1%5D Whether they support other SPGB candidacies remains to be seen. [1] http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1050/letters/ Unfortunately, during a technical cleanup of the server data base the above post was inadvertently deleted.
alanjjohnstone has commented on: "General Election – Campaign News" —- They have also supported our own spoiled ballot paper tactic "Where there is no supportable candidate, the CPGB urges voters to spoil their ballot papers with some suitable message: eg, ‘For socialism’ " So no lesser evil, vote labour without illusions holding your noses recommndation as from others on the Left and have come out against any nationalists , even the left-nationalists of the SSP…No doubt inviting the wrath of being accused of sectarianism…the CPGB frequently taking that mantle from oursleves these days Unfortunately, during a technical cleanup of the server data base the above post was inadvertently deleted.
Pics of the Canterbury Election Stall last Saturdayhttp://www.meetup.com/The-Socialist-Party-of-Great-Britain/photos/26000984/
After confirming that we are standing 10 candidates, we have been invited to appear on BBC2's Daily Politics Show again:
Quote:As part of the BBC Daily Politics election coverage we'll be featuring a different political party for every day of the election campaign – and we would like to interview the Socialist Party of GB as part of this. The format will be a one-to-one with either Andrew Neil or Jo Coburn (both are jointly presenting all of our election campaign programmes – I'll be able to confirm who it will be closer to the date) and will last approx. 5 minutes.Good news! Who will be our rep?
Now starts the discussion upon who will be the person to be our voice.Someone who has already the experience, or someone new so to increase our overall experence?…The choice is ours to make…I'm very happy either way, tbh..and content enough to i leave it to others to decide…Great news though that we are now featuring in at least the BBC's selection criteria for those worthy of being given a public airing of political views even if it is just a 5 minute thing…One day, we may get a full documentary devoted to us with a Paxman interrogation…..
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