This mayoral race is a stitch up. Birmingham decisively rejected the mayoral system in a referendum – Coventry did so by over two-thirds - the other boroughs never even got to vote! But now a mayoralty has been imposed on the West Midlands by an out-of-touch Tory government, supported by Labour bureaucrats who believe they’d simply be allowed to step in and run the show.
We have a political system that ignores us at best and actively seeks to isolate us, as we have seen in this contest with bans on me appearing on some platforms. Since the Communist Party is the only genuine alternative to the establishment parties, unambiguously able and willing to challenge the vested interests of billionaires, I am not surprised at this but we will campaign after the election and before the 2018 councillor elections to End The Ban on Communists .I will stand up for every member of the community.