Gerry Sables Election Communication

A personal message from Gerrard Sables

Five years ago Nick Harvey fought an anti-Tory campaign. He made a fine speech at the count when he warned of just how nasty the Tories could be. He then joined them in government. He was minister for the armed forces, and once deprived of his portfolio became Sir Nicholas Harvey.

He used his column in the local paper to fully support the government. The Liberal Democrat leadership threw a lifeline to the Tories. Without their help the Tories could not have acted as cruelly as they have.

This is a capitalist crisis!

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North Devon has suffered from the ConDem government’s policies. Your friends and mine have had benefits stopped for no good reason. Their wages have been frozen. Youth services and help for victims of domestic violence have been cut. They have even taken away some library services.

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Election Communication North Devon Thursday 7 May 2015

We have all been shocked by the expenses scandals, by cover-ups relating to child abuse by the rich and powerful. MPs are spoiled, they get a good salary and more than enough in expenses. If elected I will take only a normal worker’s wages.

Gerrard Sables Communist Party candidate

I have fought for working people’s rights all my life.

Elect me and give me the power to fight for yours.

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Promoted for Gerrard Sables by Stuart McGuinness, 23 Priory Gardens, Barnstaple EX31 1PT and printed by HJ Baldock, The Old Ice Factory, Rolls Street, Barnstaple, Devon EX31 1JP

Austerity is working ... for bankers and bosses

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Gerrard Sables for North Devon

H Working people and their families didn’t create this economic crisis. Nor should we pay for it!

H We need to vote out the Tories and LibDems on May 7. But a Labour government should reverse the cuts, not continue them. We need public ownership of vital services, not privatisation.

H Gerrard Sables is a lifelong trade union activist. He holds the PCS gold badge for services to civil service trade unionism and is secretary of Barnstaple Trades Union Council and a member of the regional committee of the South West Trades Union Congress. He is the only candidate to have organised a flying picket.

It’s a crisis of the capitalist system caused by reckless speculation and big business profiteering.

The bank bailout cost £1.3 trillion of our money – almost 20 times the annual government deficit.

We’re paying for the bail-out with tax and VAT rises.

And with cuts in public services, benefits and wages.

But corporate profits and fat cat incomes have shot up since 2008, while wages have been frozen.

In 1998, top bosses received 45 times the average pay – now they pay themselves 185 times the average.

They make more in three months than most people earn in a lifetime!

Today, one in five workers earn less than the living wage. Millions of people face benefit cuts, the Bedroom Tax and unfair ‘capability’ assessments for non-existent jobs.

The Tory-LibDem regime wants more ‘austerity’ – which means privatisation of our NHS and schools and more anti-trade union laws to enforce low wages and zero hours contracts.

Communists say we need a left-wing government – one that puts people before profit, peace before war and democracy before the EU and NATO.

Communists say a new government must: H Tax the rich, big business and City speculators.

H Plug tax avoidance loopholes and close down British-run tax havens around the world.

H Cut energy prices and take gas, electricity, water, buses and rail back into public ownership.

H Use nationalised banks to lend to home-buyers, small businesses and productive industry.

H Invest in jobs, ‘green’ technology and public services.

H Return all privatised health services to the NHS. H Enforce equal pay for women and young workers.

H Raise pensions and reinstate benefits and student grants.

H End privilege in education and abolish fees.

H Repeal the Bedroom Tax and build a million new public sector homes.

H Scrap the Health & Social Care Act and return all privatised health services to public ownership.

H Extend democratic rights in a progressive and federal Britain.

H Scrap Trident and plans for more nuclear weapons.

H Challenge NATO expansion and EU big business policies – stand up for popular sovereignty.

A big vote for Gerrard Sables, the Communist Party candidate in North Devon, will send a strong signal that workers and their families demand a new policy.

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An active peace campaigner and CND member, he has been twice arrested in non-violent actions at nuclear bases. He helped found the local branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. He was vice-chair of DRAIN which saw off the proposed incinerator plant in Barnstaple. Until Sunrise obtained its Lottery grant he ran lessons in English for the Sunrise Group.

He enjoys working in his allotment and acting for the Pilton Pantomime where he usually plays the villain.

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