SUPPORT DAVID MAPLES AS THE SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE FOR WESTBOURNE AND POETS' CORNER
Who am I?
I am a housing and disability campaigner. My family live in the wards next to Westbourne & Poets’ Corner. I have considerable experience as a community campaigner in helping families and individuals to get the services they need. I am also an experienced trade union representative and a member of the Socialist Party.
Why vote for an independent socialist?
In less than nine months Labour has kept the two-child benefit cap, reduced eligibility for the winter fuel allowance and not compensated women whose pension age was increased from 60 to 67. Now it is reducing disability benefits. The Green Party became enormously unpopular when it ran the council after continuing to implement austerity like all the other establishment parties.
A voice for the working class, not the bosses
None of the main parties have put up any serious opposition to the last 15 years of austerity or to the senseless wars taking place internationally. I will fight to defend your services and oppose cuts. I opposed the closure of St Peter’s School in South Portslade. I will campaign against reduced opening hours at Hove Library and against the closure of community libraries.
If you agree with these ideas, please donate and join the campaign today!
I stand for:
- Pay rises that keep up with inflation - we are living through a cost of greed crisis. I stand for the repeal of Tory anti strike laws, a £15 minimum wage and workers’ rights from day one of employment
- Opposition to cuts and closure of council services - keep the libraries open, support children and adults with special needs
- Opposition to council tax, rent, and service charge increases to make up for cuts in government funding - band D Council Tax is already over £200 a month
- Safe, secure homes for all - for the mass building of genuinely affordable, high quality, carbon neutral council housing. Rent controls to cap the level of rents. Low interest mortgages for homebuyers
- Climate action now - nationalise the energy companies to carry out a major switch to clean, green energy. Nationalise Southern Water
- Ban all arms sales to Israel and stop the war on Palestine - arms manufacturing should be replaced by socially useful goods
- United campaigns to end discrimination - on the grounds of race, gender, disability, sexuality, age and all forms prejudice and oppression. I will campaign against division in our community. I am opposed to anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
- The money is there, it’s just in the wrong hands - Britain is a wealthy country but it is rigged in favour of the super-rich. I would support a wealth tax as a first step and a democratically planned economy
All donations will be used to help pay for our election material and to show as many people as possible in the ward that there is a working class alternative to all the establishment parties.
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Promoted by Callum Joyce on behalf of David Maples both c/o Community Base, 113 Queen’s Road, Brighton BN1 3XG