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Pat Lawlor to Fight for Assembly Seat in West Belfast!

category antrim | politics / elections | press release author Tuesday January 18, 2011 14:02author by West Belfast Socialist Partyauthor email socialistpartyni at btconnect dot com Report this post to the editors

Elect a socialist to fight cuts, not implement them

The Socialist Party is to stand Pat Lawlor for West Belfast in the Assembly elections on May 5th. He has already been selected as the Party's candidate for Lower Falls in the local election.
Pat Lawlor: A socialist fighter against cuts
Pat Lawlor: A socialist fighter against cuts

The Socialist Party is to stand Pat Lawlor for West Belfast in the Assembly elections on May 5th. He has already been selected as the Party's candidate for Lower Falls in the local election. Pat is a neo-natal nurse and trade union representative in the Royal Victoria Hospital, playing a leading role in exposing and campaigning against attacks on the health service in the Belfast Trust.

Pat is the Secretary of the We Won't Pay Campaign which built support for mass non-payment of water charges, preventing both direct rule ministers and the Assembly parties from introducing the double tax. He is also an organiser for the Stop the Cuts Alliance, which brings together community campaigns, trade unionists and political groups who are committed to fighting all attacks on jobs and services.

Announcing his candidature, Pat said:-

"In the draft budget, the Assembly Executive parties have declared war on public services, jobs and the living standards of working-class people. Their £4 billion cuts will throw tens of thousands more onto the dole queue, when real unemployment already stands at 14%. Education and health will be devastated, leaving a whole generation of young people without a future. While maintaining huge subsidies to big business and the super-rich, the main parties plan to massively increase the tax burden on ordinary workers."

"The bankers and speculators responsible for this crisis must be made to pay, not workers and young people. Instead, they are again sharing bonuses of over £7 billion. While the main parties prepare to implement huge cuts on behalf of the Tory government, working people need a voice in Stormont- an anti-sectarian representative who will fight the cuts in the Assembly and give support to those who fight them on the streets. That is why I am standing in the election. If elected, I will live on the average worker's wage and donate the rest of my salary to the socialist movement, workers' struggles and community campaigns."

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Excellent!     UNITE member    Tue Jan 18, 2011 14:05 
   excellent     opus diablos    Tue Jan 18, 2011 14:45 
   Good news     Belfast Pat    Tue Jan 18, 2011 23:47 
   Socialist?     hmmm    Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:52 
   To hmmnn     Belfast pat    Wed Jan 19, 2011 22:20 
   socialist party     PV    Wed Jan 19, 2011 23:30 
   Exactly what I'm saying     hmmm    Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:22 
   Back at ya hmmm     Belfast Pat    Thu Jan 20, 2011 13:49 
   Check your facts     hmm    Thu Jan 20, 2011 14:49 
 10   Check your own facts hmmm     Belfast Pat    Thu Jan 20, 2011 16:27 
 11   Re: "Facts"     Séamus    Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:18 
 12   SP standing in West Belfast     convinced    Sun Jan 23, 2011 16:27 
 13   Eirigi to contest Belfast Local Elections     Celia S    Sun Jan 23, 2011 20:38 
 14   Eirigi     jimbo    Sun Jan 23, 2011 23:03 
 15   A split     Rumpy Pumpy    Sat Jan 29, 2011 21:14 


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