tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-234533512009-06-07T10:13:06.904-07:00Independent Left wing election candidate!Tom Woodcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17786154402700775947noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23453351.post-55451960714311216912009-06-05T08:32:00.000-07:002009-06-07T10:13:06.914-07:00

the result is in! We stood under the slogan 'make the bankers pay – defend jobs, public services and the environment'. Our result shows that where we put up a left fight we can win support. We need to build an alternative all over the country in order to build the resistance and challenge the major parties and the fascist BNP.Kilian Bourke (Lib Dem) 34.4% 829Chris Freeman (

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Tom - supporting Postal Workers fighting to defend Royal Mail – the other Parties are keen to sell it!The three main parties have supported privatisation with disastrous effects. Tom thinks our services should be owned and run for the benefit of all of us – not for the profits of selfish bankers and billionaires.

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Dear Romsey Resident,Like many of you, I am angry about MPs’ expenses. We struggle to pay household bills whilst they claim on a second home. We pay to use ‘public’ swimming pools and transport but fund some MPs to have their own.But the real hypocrisy is that all three political parties have told us there is not enough to pay decent wages, guarantee pensions or build high quality public housing.

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We demonstrated outside the Ford showroom in Cambridge last week to help keep up the pressure on the motor giants , who have treated Visteon workers so badly!We now have something to celebrate as Visteon workers have won a major victory against one of the biggest and most powerful multinational companies in the world – Ford. The workers used to be employed by Ford until 2000 and were sacked at

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIBKwRHvkV8

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I am writing to encourage you to vote for Andrew Osborne and I in the local elections being held on the 1st of May 2008. We are standing on a nation wide ‘Left List’ which includes London Mayoral candidate and convenor of the Stop the war Coalition Lindsey German. The list is fielding a full London assembly list as well as candidates around the country.I have stood as the Romsey Respect

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;:The ‘No Mill Road Tesco’ campaign is a fantastic illustration of how the community can work together – we must now turn the energy into victory and build the confidence to stand up for our public services and the whole communities needs. The threat of Tesco opening a store in Mill Road has sparked a vibrant and broad campaign - which Respect fully support.The campaign has also shown that the

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Defend Local Traders/defend choiceRespect is not opposed to those who shop in supermarkets, we are opposed to the supermarket monopoly. Their power limits choice and jeopardies diversity.Demand good food for working peopleThe use of additives, colouring a flavouring has enabled supermarkets to increase profits and lower the quality of food by increasing shelf life and enhancing its taste and

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Tesco has put in 3 planning applications fo work on the old Wilco site. The first task for the anti Tesco campaign is to get as many objections in as possible. Planning application ref. 07/0809/ADV [PDF scan]“Installation of one double sided illuminated fascia sign” Planning application ref. 07/0810/FUL [PDF scan]“Installation of a new shop front including an ATM” Planning application ref.

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Please support this petition, tell others and raise this issue with your elected representitives"The new highway code requires cyclists to use cycle facilities 'wherever possible'. Many facilities are of poor standard, or just plain dangerous. cyclists should not be forced to use such facilities against their better judgment. In short, cyclists should be allowed to use the road."British Cycling

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Respect proves we can build an electoral challenge to privatisation and war!Respect campaigns around the county have shown that center right mainstream politics can be challenged from the left. By this morning Respect had won council seats in Preston, Chesterfield and Birmingham and a host of excellent second and third places across England. Counts in other parts of the country are still to be

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In last year's council elections, Respect made a number of spectacular breakthroughs, winning 12 councillors in Tower Hamlets and 3 in Newham.Rania Khan in Tower Hamlets became Britain's youngest councillor, while in Preston Michael Lavalette is the North-West's best known councillor. In Birmingham, Salma Yaqoob won a council seat with an extraordinary 51% of the vote.People in those areas have

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Global issues are key in the local elections because climate change, war and privatisation are proving the greatest threat to our local communities. Blair’s commitment to George Bush’s Oil War is in direct contradiction to sustainable development, international relations and tackling poverty at home and abroad. Gordon Brown talks of eradicating poverty yet he offers tax breaks to corporations

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I was dismayed to read (News 7th March) that Cambridgeshire County Council have not disciplined Councillor Gail Kenney for the racist and islamophobic comments she made toward the young group of Cambridge women last summer.It is a disgrace that a councillor can be so disrespectful to young people when they are trying to engage with democracy. It is further shameful that the Council should

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Saturdays successful march and rally in Cambridge town center was an excellent start to a campiagn and movement that needs to be big enough to stop any government in their tracks. We need to make it impossible for Blair, Brown, Cameron, Ming Campbell or any one else to impliment their neo liberal 'reforms' and rip appart our Nationalised Health Service. The 350 people who formed the angry

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Last were speaking to people in Romsey about the political situation we are in nationally and globally as well as issues and concerns particular to Cambridge and to this part of Romsey.It is clear that the continuing privatisation of Public Services, made particularly obvious by the market-led cuts in the Health service, are a real concern for many of you. Respect are campaigning for a fully

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phone: 0771 2893552 / 01223 328912 NOW!Saturday the 24th of February is going to be a very important day. The Stop theWar demonstrations in London and Glasgow give a great opportunity to build themovement against the economically and morally bankrupt war policies that thisgovernment continues to pursue.The Demo looks set to be big. Cambridge have 3 coaches going to London, one ofwhich is starting

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If you a fed up with usolicited mail try this. i would of course favour a system where you had to opt in for Junk Mail!The ‘Stop Junk Mail Today’ awareness campaign has been launched by Cambridgeshire County and the District Councils to help people prevent potential waste even entering homes.

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Iranian Women Photographers and Film DirectorsFriday 16 February at 8.15 p.m.Introduced by Goli Taraghi"House is Black" (1962, 20 mins) directed by Forough Farrokhzad"Old Man of Hara"(2004, 37 mins) introduced by director Mahvash SheikholeslamiSaturday 17 February at 2.30 p.m."Bou Bou in Tehran" (3 mins) directed by Maryam Mehrjui"Juste une Femme" (29 mins) directed by Mitra FarahaniSaturday 17

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The suggestion in Letters 29th January that immigration is the reason for a council housing shortage is racist and ill informed. These are the lies that the BNP and other fascist parties use to divide communities who are all on the receiving end of poor policy. The shortage in council housing is because consecutive governments and councils have sold housing stock without replacing it. The

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Another eight Cambridge residents have been arrested during a protest outside the Trident Submarine Base at Faslane on the Clyde in Scotland this weekend.Those arrested were among 50 others demonstrating this at the base on Saturday and Sunday. They are the third group from Cambridge to partake in a year long blockade of the base that aims to halt government plans to replace Trident - Britain’s

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