Austerity Is Not Inevitable Or Necessary Claims WGP Deputy Leader
As Trade unionists, socialists, youth and activists gathered at yesterday’s May Day rally in Swansea Wales Green Party Deputy Leader Anthony Slaughter said,
“This May Day rally is taking place in very unsettled times, at a time of rampant rising inequality and with the threat of even greater cuts to social spending to come from all of the mainstream Westminster parties, it is crucial that those of us who believe in a better, fairer future stand together and resist the ongoing assault on worker’s rights and the continued demonization and exploitation of the weakest and most vulnerable in our society.”
Wales Green Party are commited to reversing austerity and ending inequality. They would support workers rights by increasing the minimum wage to a living wage for all with a target ot £10 per hour by 2020; insisting that the highest wage in any organisation is no more than 10 times the lowest; and ending exploitative zero hours contracts.
Slaughter continued:
“Austerity is not inevitable. It is the result of deliberate political decisions. We do not accept that our poorest should be paying the cost of a crisis caused by a reckless, out of control financial sector that successive governments continue to indulge and bail out with vast amounts of tax payer’s money.”
“Wales Green Party believe that there is a better way to order our society and we will continue to work with trade unions, workers and like minded progressive groups in the fight for Trade Union rights; a minimum wage that is a Living Wage and for public services not private profiteering.
Together we are stronger; together we can create a society fair for all, for the Common Good.”
The Swansea & Gower branch of the Wales Green Party was in attendance at this rally with WGP Parliamentary Candidates Ashley Wakeling of Swansea West and Julia Marshall of the Gower constituency hopeful of garnering local support in the upcoming General Election where the Wales Green Party is standing a record 35 candidates out of the 40 seats across Wales.
The Wales Green Party is committed to giving Green voters the opportunity to vote for them in as many areas as possible and plan to stand candidates in all 40 seats in the upcoming Assembly Elections in Wales in 2016.