How Your Trade Union Could Save Lives Now from May 22 and from 2015?

TORIES AND UKIP HAVE MORE CAMPAIGNING FUNDS

The Tories are on course to become debt free as a party for the first time in the party's history.

The Electoral Commission might be able to declare the Tory party debt-free by August.

In 2010, the Tories spent around £17 million on campaigning for the general election.

UKIP has some of the richest people in England as donors.

LABOUR DEEP IN DEBT

Gordon Brown's New Labour suffered defeat because Labour voters just folded up their arms and did not vote for any party in 2010.

In 2010, New Labour had spent £8 million on general election campaigning.

Now Labour has debts of around £12 million, according to the Electoral Commission, by end 2013.

Labour is in the process of losing the automatic signing-up of millions of union members to the Labour party.

UNITE union (biggest contributor to Labour) will cut its donation to Labour to around £1.5 million by affiliating just 500,000 members of its 1 million members, and review the number annually.

Why does not UNITE take all of its members' affiliations now from Labour?

The GMB union has already cut funding by £1 million to Labour.

Why does GMB not take all affiliations now?

Labour's massive debts makes them dependent on union cash.

HOW TRADE UNIONS COULD SAVE LIVES FROM MAY 22, AS WELL AS FROM 2015?

Labour's ageing voters are conservative on welfare and immigration, and more likely to be within the squeezed middle, so that is why Labour is the party losing votes to UKIP, not the Tories.

Labour does not represent the working class today at all, who actually are made up of:

• working poor, 
• poor pensioners (with all sources of pension or lack of it giving income below £12,299 a year (2012 figure), 
• half of women 60-66 in working poor, losing state pension payout at 60 and worse to come from 2016.
• See if you lose most or all of your state pension: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
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• homeless / unemployed / enslaved in Workfare young people
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• disabled and chronic sick losing benefits, forced onto Workfare slavery even above 60

This working class is at least 13 million who struggle to make ends meet each day.

Why are trade unions not putting forward a billboard poster campaign to give brand awareness to a party with trade union in the party name and union members within it?

Trade Unionist and Socialist Against Cuts
(links on my personal website's home page: www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

And other parties with a socialist agenda for the working class, that offer such things as rising wages of council frontline staff by cutting management pay:

For 2015 general election there is also the Left Unity Party, who had their first national conference end March 2014. 

Links on my website on my Pension Swans page: www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

ASK YOUR TRADE UNION TODAY TO TAKE AWAY AFFILIATION FROM LABOUR

So why are you, as a union member, not asking your trade union to disaffiliate your membership from Labour?

Ask your trade union why they they are not paying for more billboard posters and newspaper advertising for such socialist parties as the above?

Below are some of the reasons why Labour is bad for you.

LABOUR IS NOT THE PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS

Labour began welfare reform, brought in Atos that pays no corporation tax, invented the Bedroom Tax, will continue Tory spending plans and be even harder on welfare reform than the Tories in 2015, and will continue Workfare.

Labour agreed with the welfare cap, driving people out of homes in London and so losing best opportunity for work.

New Labour brought in the sanctions regime and replaced unemployment benefits with the Jobseekers Allowance, where the Jobcentres refer sanctioned claimants now to food banks.

Labour has never once said about leaving people with no money for food by sanctioned benefits to young families / old / disabled/sick / young homeless.

In a nation where food banks only feed you 3 times in a year.

Whilst everywhere else in the developed world, the poor are fed every day in local government / charity canteens giving a free cooked meal and hot drink.

The economic recovery is mostly just happening down in London.

UK is a leader in low pay, with a legal minimum wage nowhere near a living wage and way down the league of the developed world as a percentage of the average UK wage of £31,000 per year.

Low pay has flat-lined down to the levels of 2002 and before.

The economic recovery is being driven by insecure money from low income self-employment, zero hour contracts, part time casual of the working class today (people below half of average wage around £31,000 per year) and so hitting hardest:

• less-qualified, 
• young people, 
• women and 
• ethnic minorities.

Half of people in poverty are those in work.

Labour has again and again sacked Labour party members, who as councillors have voted against council funding cuts to frontline services.

HOW LABOUR MPs COULD BECOME SOCIALIST TODAY?

If Labour MPs actually cared about the working class, then sitting Labour MPs would convert immediately to the socialist parties offering the wellbeing of millions of people today and running on those party tickets for 2015 general election.

And Labour MPs would support the socialist candidates running for councillor posts in May 22 elections of such as TUSC.

Will they?

Why Labour, Lib Dems and Greens Just Carbon Copy Tories?

CURRENT PARTIES ARE THE SAME PARTY TODAY

Tories, Labour, Lib Dem and Greens parties agree with the rise in the retirement age in a recession.

This does not help the nation's economy but puts financial burden on struggling firms in paying National Insurance and into works pensions for years longer, whilst the payout to staff is reduced by many years.

You do not need to retire to gain payout of state pension.

Worse is to come with the Flat Rate Pension, that is not more pension, but less, and for many, especially women, no money in old age altogether. 

This Bill also ends the housewife's pension, Pension Credit, SERPs, State Second Pension, and a small pension at 80 and nothing for widows.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

WHY ALL CURRENT PARTIES AGREE AS IF ONE PARTY?

We forget that back in the 1980s, senior members of the Labour Party split from Labour and joined the Liberals, to form the Lib Dems that replaced the Liberal party.

So inside the Coalition government today with the Tories, is a part of the Labour party within the Lib Dems.

Just learned that Lib Dems not worth putting a cross on your ballot paper, as just lost a local election again, with only getting 67 crosses. So please do not waste your cross, make it count.

The Tories and Liberals a 100 years ago, agreed together to begin the Workhouse and bring in the New Poor Law that killed 5 million working people in the 19th century, being as the inmates were treated as harshly they were in prison, including walking the dreaded treadmill that if you stopped, broke your foot, without mercy for great age past 70.

In 1930s Labour had forced worker camps, only closing them and destroying the paperwork about them when Hitler opened them in Germany for ethnic German forced labour.

This is the history of the present Workfare, forcing any age, and including the disabled and chronic sick, to work for profit making companies for no wages, and with taxpayers paying profit making firms to take on this unpaid labour.

The Greens, like all other parties, agree with Austerity, and enacted it in the one council, The Greens rule, Brighton, within its town boundaries mostly students, working poor and low income pensioners. The Greens are part of the cause of fuel poverty as half the energy bill is energy tax. Around 30,000 elderly die in unaffordable unheated homes each winter.

WHO IS OUT THERE FOR MAY 22 ELECTIONS - COUNCIL AND EUROPEAN ELECTIONS?

There are other parties to choose on your ballot paper on May 22 for some local council and all UK for European Elections.

Check you are eligible to elect someone by checking up to deadline of May 6. Link on my home page as below link at foot of this section.

These alternative parties are the ones who really care about the working poor and low income pensioner that are 97 per cent of the benefits bill, yet go hungry with less than £20 a week left after bills for food, so causing kids suffering Rickets from lack of sufficient food.

The rise in employment mostly being in London, still people getting below a living wage because:

• part time / casual, suffering cut housing benefit by welfare cap or because cannot increase hours from part time to full time,
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• zero hour contracts, something like 1 million workers, and
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• low income self employed.

The 3 per cent unemployed, including disabled / chronic sick losing disability / sick benefit:

• with disabled / chronic sick forced onto dole money for just 6 to 12 months then nothing, 
• where the chronic sick and disabled will stay, now that companies since April 6th 2014, no longer get reimbursed for long term sickness absence (more than 4 weeks).

See new parties on my website's home page:

www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

Resources:

Austerity: History of a Dangerous Idea - Best priced book

Click to get this great little book on what is really happening today to disabled / chronic sick, kids, adults, elderly:
Strong Word and Hard Times

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Slip picture of politician on face and destress with 10 pins where you choose.

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National Insurance Means State Pension is Funded

NO NATIONAL INSURANCE CREDITS - NO MONEY IN OLD AGE

You pay National Insurance when you are in work. 

Your NI contributions are paid by your boss and by you. 

It costs (2013-14) £700 a year to buy back NI credits, but does not give you a right to benefit if you fall out of work, as only class 3 stamp so only towards your state pension (rising from current 30 to 35 years NI contribution for those retiring after 2016). 

If you do not claim benefit or contribute through your job into NI credits, for two tax years, you cannot claim contribution based benefit again in your lifetime.

Each job is kept separate for NI credit history, unlike your tax affairs. 

Add on the reality of rules now meaning less than 10 years NI credits, no state pension, and there is the perfect storm for older workers now over 45, with no money in old age at all.

Those on benefit - unemployed or disabled related - get NI credits free (actually they are paying all the stealth taxes at a 90 per cent taxation rate, but that is rarely mentioned by those with anti-welfare rhetoric).

TORIES PLAN EARNINGS TAX 

If the Tory change happens of an 'Earnings Tax', then the unemployed and disabled will get no NI credits and, just like the Flat Rate Pension from 2016, will mean the final death knell of the welfare state. Leaving people, as before 1945, with no money at all.

Even the Roman Emperors knew well enough to feed people every day, with free bread each morning. Peasants have throughout history been the engines of change. 

Many people have only now woken up to the fact that jobs of less than 14 hours per week / earning less than £109 per week (2013-14) have not been paying NI from their employer and from themselves. So no rights to benefit if fall out of work and no state pension. 

As the rise in employment is insecure low income self employment, part-time casual work, zero hour contracts and a legal minimum wage below a living wage, and that mainly in London, when the government is cutting housing benefit to workers unable to move from part-time to full-time jobs, then the loss of state pension to the wife at 60 is not helpful at all. 

Click Here to See if you lose most or all of your state pension:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

NATIONAL INSURANCE FUNDS STATE PENSIONS

A lot of right wing newspapers (especially articles published in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail), and even chartered accountants, have a belief that benefit and state pensions come from current Income Tax payers in work.

Bearing in mind only 26p in the pound comes from Income Tax to government.

And 75 per cent of personal taxation is gained by government, from all the stealth taxes that people all pay, in or out of work and however long we live. 

Examples:

• Insurance premium tax, 
• alcohol and cigarettes, 
• VAT even on food in supermarkets or from vending machines - 
• examples: your meal on aircraft, ship, train 
• and such as yoghurt, desserts, crisps, savoury snacks, 
• hot food take-aways, ice cream, soft drinks, 
• confectionary, soft drinks and mineral water.
• VAT standard rated for meals for hospital staff and visitors, but not the patients. 
• Noticed Kindle books charge VAT whereas print books do not. 
• 20 per cent VAT on getting a builder for housing renovation and repair work. 

NATIONAL INSURANCE IS NOT A TAX

National Insurance is not a tax, but a contribution at 12 per cent of your wage within your 20 per cent Income tax band.

By not being a tax, the NI contributions are not available for general expenditure by the government. 

If government borrow from the NI fund's surplus, the loan is limited in its use and charged an interest fee. 

NATIONAL INSURANCE AND PUBLIC SECTOR WORKS PENSION CONTRIBUTIONS ARE RING FENCED

The NI fund (according to Steve Webb MP, Minister for Pensions) is ring fenced.

The confusion may arise from state pensions and public sector works pensions being thought of together.

But even with public sector works pensions, they are a contribution based works pension and not all paid from general taxation to council or national government pensioners. 

Many council pensions are well funded, so less liability to the taxpayer.

Despite what media tell you, the average male council pension is £4000 a year and for women £2,800, as bulk of employees are low waged frontline staff. 

Only politicians' works pensions has one of the biggest burdens on current taxpayers, in contributions and payout.

The NI Fund is kept in surplus and there has been no requirement to top up from general taxation for decades.

The NI Fund is kept at surplus to have at least 'cash in hand' equivalent of eight weeks expenditure.

AS NATIONAL INSURANCE FUNDS STATE PENSION NO EFFECT BY SCOTLAND'S INDEPENDENCE ON ENGLAND OR SCOTLAND PENSIONERS

This is shown by the Department of Works and Pensions recently confirming that if Scotland becomes independent after 18 September Referendum in Scotland, this has no effect on future and current state pension payout.

Whether a Free Scotland will payout state pensions at 60 to women and men remains to be seen?

UK STATE PENSION AMONGST LOWEST IN DEVELOPED WORLD

The UK state pension is one of the lowest in the developed world, on a par at fourth to the bottom, alongside Mexico, out of 42 countries, when looked at as a percentage of average wages (in UK around £26,000-£31,000).

The UK is in breach of international treaty law under the Social Charter, informs the Council of Europe and the state pension should be £138 per week, and this sum is under review as investigation does not factor in welfare reform and the bedroom tax. The Coalition government has ignored this and kept the state pension at its low rate, and from 2016 many new claimants will get loss not more. 

In Scotland, the Free Scotland Yes Campaign say they will invest oil revenue as they do in Norway in a sovereign oil wealth fund, from which protected annual income from the investments Norway funds its state pension. The UK never invested their oil revenue, but just spent it.

So Scotland will have its own share of the ring fenced NI fund. 

Source: 

Scotland's Yes Campaign and subsequent comments by other finance boffins, in reply to Gordon Brown's speech at Glasgow University trying to scare Scottish voters into thinking they will lose their state pension if vote Yes on 18 September for a Free Scotland.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/rachel-holmes-gordon-brown-pensions-after-yes-vote-1-3390081

The same Gordon Brown as prime minister who ruined the works final salary pension for by taxing the pension providers. 

Today, the Coalition want to tax private pension providers, taking around £35 billion from the investments. 

Elect Different on May 22 - Cornwall - Mebyon Kernow

CORNWALL - MEBYON KERNOW PARTY

Labour is not the party of the working class and has not been for decades.

Here is anotyher party Mebyon Kernow for Cornwall to elect on May 22 in council elections, that will help the real working class, which is all folk below at least £15,000 per year money coming in, abandoned by all other parties:

- working poor unable to feed the kids

- poor pensioners

- disabled / chronic sick losing benefits

Especially as Mebyon Kernow offer to replace Council Tax with a tax based on your money and not just the same for all.

And raise the lowest wages of council staff, by cutting the salaries of top management.

You can get your state pension payout and stay in work if you want.

Mebyon Kernow help those women who lost benefit and / or in working poor, reached 60 in 2013 and lost payout of state pension as well.

Worse is to come in 2016.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension: 
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

More details of other parties for May 22 in England for European and Council Elections on my home page:
www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

Why Voting New in Local Council and European Elections May 22, 2014 Is Change We Seek?

Beany Mac has agreed for his poster to be widely shared

THE MILLIONS GOING HUNGRY AND COLD WHO NEED TO VOTE NEW

I followed a pensioner with a trolley with only 4 small items in it, the other week out of the supermarket.

Pensioners, like many adults of all ages, can end up with not even £11 per week left for food. Believe me, you cannot get much for that. It is not even a couple of days of fish and chip takeaways.

The Trussell Trust state that 4.7 million people live in food poverty, yet Oxfam tells us that 13 million people struggle to make ends meet each and every day.

The Trussell Trust said 1 million referrals came to them by recommendation 2013-to date 2014. But The Trust only deals with half of food banks. So at least 2 million accessed food banks from last year to this.

The rest of the hungry follow me to the aisle with food past its best before date in the supermarket, and the bakery trays with that day's end date. You don't see us eating fresh vegetables and fruit, only wish we could afford it.

See my blogs on hunger in UK:

http://theswansnewparty.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-pages-on-hunger-in-uk-index-to-blogs.html

Green taxes added £200 to average fuel bill, so contributing to the 30,000 deaths from cold homes of the elderly and ill health of the working poor in unheated homes. Thus showing The Greens up, who have imposed Austerity on the one council The Greens rule, Brighton, who has within town poor university students, working poor and poor pensioners. 

Because if benefits are cut, you cannot access Cold Weather Payments. 

Without state pension, you cannot access Winter Fuel Allowance or Pension Credit or gain free prescriptions unless you are at death's door. 

If you are a woman, alone, 60, disabled/chronic sick so unable to work, cut benefits and then suffer from last year the fate of 530,000 women of loss of state pension payout, then you may indeed lose most or all of your state pension, including turning 80 from 2016.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

People believe that the 1.3 million who have early retired are lucky, when the most usual way to cut public sector jobs long before 2010, was to early retire women at 50 and above (55 in last few years) in lieu of redundancy. Women took this option, because at least they had a monthly income, and not just a lump sum of one week's wages per year of service.

Two thirds of the Austerity job cuts are to women, with up to one million jobs gone by 2018. 

A figure like 85,000 nurses and healthcare assistant jobs (mostly women) have been lost in the NHS.

European Elections May 22

Local Elections May 22

NEW PARTIES THAT MIGHT BE A REAL HELP TO YOU

See my home page of my personal website where brought altogether for you, on one page, about new parties for European and Local Elections on May 22, 2014, for you to make up your own mind, that offer the sole hope for us.  

And how to ensure you are registered with your right to put your cross on your ballot paper in the election polling station. 

You should have already received your polling card if you have, but you have a few days up til May 6 to make sure you are listed on the electoral roll with your council. 

My home page:

www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

WHY LABOUR IS A TORY PARTY?

We are told, if you don't put your cross on your ballot paper for Labour, you will get Tories.

Ed Balls, Labour Shadow Chancellor, has confirmed that Labour will just continue Tory spending policy and be harder on welfare reform than the Tories if elected.

The word reform is supposed to mean to make something better, not to abolish and leave people penniless and hungry. 

We forget that Ed Balls was Gordon Brown's speech writer (Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman) and that Ed Miliband was in New Labour's Cabinet.

It was Labour who began welfare cuts, brought in Atos and the Bedroom Tax. 

The rise in need for Food Banks began under Labour as far back as 2005. 

Food Banks are only 3 vouchers in a year, whilst Labour does not query why we, in UK do not feed the working poor, poor pensioners, and those benefit sanctioned with one free cooked meal and hot drink 7 days a week, as in Europe and America. 

Labour agreed with the Tories on the Welfare Cap, including 30 of the 41 Labour MPs in Scotland. 

In Scotland, the SNP had austerity and welfare reform imposed upon them despite the majority MSPs going against. 

The SNP pay Scottish people's Bedroom Tax and the Scottish have Free Prescriptions.

The SNP have made many proposals that will help the disabled / chronic sick in a Free Scotland after a yes majority on Scottish Referendum on 18 September 2014. 

Link on my home page through clicking on election posters at foot of my home page for Scottish Referendum on 18 September 2014: www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

After 13 years of Labour rule before 2010, welfare benefits were lowest in northern Europe and Labour consistently agreed that sanction benefit cuts could be done to disabled and / or chronic sick.

Labour agreeing with Workfare and saying will continue it, is from far back in Labour's history and within a generation of Labour's beginnings.

In the 1930s, Labour set up work camps and forced the unemployed to be sent to them or go hungry, only closing them down and getting rid of the paperwork trail that showed their existence, when Hitler's Nazis did the same to their unemployed in 1930s Germany. 

in UK in 1930s there were 25 work camps with 200,000 forced labour sent to them:

http://unemployedtynewear.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/concentration-camps-for-the-workless/

How crazy to put that burden on the taxpayer just after the Great Depression of 1929, instead of feeding the poor so they had time to look for work instead of looking for a loaf of bread each day.  

A leaflet printed in the 1930s by socialists against the 1930s work camps:

 No2eu

Sign Online Petition on Pensions - Get More Jobs 18-30 on High Street and Elsewhere

HOW PENSION REFORM KILLED OFF THE HIGH STREET

Town centres are where the working poor, unemployed and pensioners shop.

Shown by amount of bank and building society branches, post office and charity shops all along the high street, mostly pedestrianised for slow walking elderly, who may also be disabled and / or chronic sick.

The low / no waged are the ones coming into town to shop, shown by the amount of Poundlands and the like in town centres.

So with benefit cuts and the loss of state pension at 60 for women from 2013 (so far to 530,000 women and onwards) there has been a huge loss of footfall to town centre shopping.

Worse is to come with the Flat Rate Pension, that is not more pension but less and in many cases nil income in old age altogether.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

WHY?

Also my the online petition is against the loss of higher age related tax allowance at 65 from 2013, again withdrawing money for shops on the high street.

So if you are between 18 and 45, this online petition affects your chance of work from all the empty shops, staying empty for years with councils wasting funds in putting cardboard murals pretending the shop is full of customers.

Look about you on the high street, see how many women there are of the Baby Boomers (born between 1945 and 1965) looking after the grandkids or helping their elderly parents to shop.

All these are lost customer footfall that could bring shops back into business, if only they had had their state pension payout (and works and personal pension at that) at 60 for women and 65 for men.

The rules mean you can stay in your job if take state pension payout. Why not all kinds of pensions?

Businesses not paying National Insurance or into a works pensions or person continuing to pay into personal pension.

Pensioner Bashing in Earnest even hits Tory Pensioners

UK STATE PENSION IS BELOW LEGAL LEVEL BY EU LAW

The Council of Europe informed UK government that the level of state pension was too low, under international treaty law with the EU, and should be £138 per week, not the around £102-£110 it is now.

UK government has just ignored this fact and continue to be in breach.

PRIVATE PENSIONS STILL LEAVE THE OLD WITH LESS THAN £11 PER WEEK LEFT FOR FOOD

Private pensions lost massively with the crash in value of annuities and now that the rules have been changed for a larger lump sum, annuities will now have no value. It will also mean that the monthly payout from private pensions will reduce, by the larger lump sum.

Politicians have thought someone with savings of £20,000 in the bank was wealthy, when this is merely two years of house bills money, by what finance boffins said (2012 figures so more now) pensioners need on average to prevent fuel and food poverty.

PENSIONERS TO BE TARGETTED FOR CLAIMING PENSION CREDIT

Strange to relate, but Tory pensioners who have been forced to claim Pension Credit (to those who know of its existence) which is only about £35 per week anyway, will be called scrounging fraudsters for claiming this benefit when means-testing would deny them that little bit of food money.

So hitting hundreds of thousands of pensioners, who will be hit research via HM Revenue and Customs from this month, April 2014.

So this admin will probably cost more than the alleged £170 million being lost by giving this small amount of food money to pensioners.

Of course, many pensioners without any other income are not aware they have the right to claim Pension Credit.

As these pensioners have been paying 12 per cent of their wages all their working lives (some for as long as half a century in work since early teenagers) in National Insurance, and the wife has lost pension payout at 60 and may lose all pension from 2016, then this money is being taken from hard earning taxpayers, not scroungers.

Pensioners will lose, even at 80, from 2016.
See if you lose most or all of your state pension:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Why Left Unity Party would save England after Scotland Goes Free?

THE YES CAMPAIGN GAINS GROUNDS EACH DAY

The No campaign keeps trying to tell the Scots what they would lose, so negative campaigning, which never works.

The Yes Campaign relies on positive campaigning, of the gains to the Scottish people.
http://www.snp.org/referendum

One gain, is to the Scottish elderly and disabled, who would be free of the obsession to leave the poor to starve of all current parties down in England.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS FOR HUNGRY ENGLAND OF A FREE SCOTLAND?

58 of the 59 Scottish MPs come to Westminster and support Labour or at least not the Coalition.

With a Free Scotland, Labour loses 41 MPs who have seats in Scotland, and thus will not have enough MPs to form a government in 2015, against the 299 Tory MPs (only 1 Tory MP up in Scotland).

And Labour lose these 58 Scots coming down to Westminster.

THE END OF LABOUR IN ENGLAND HELPS ALL PENSIONERS AS WELL AS WORKING POOR / DISABLED / CHRONIC SICK OF ALL AGES

Labour did not bring back their 1975 law that guaranteed pension payout, revoked by the Tories in 1993.

Nor did Labour think that pensions were a priority for funding and pensioners were thus unimportant, during the two terms in office, back to back.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension, even at 80, from 2016
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Labour in power in 2015 would cause the same every increasing hunger in England, Wales and Ulster, by its stated policy of continuing the Coalition's austerity and welfare reform, that is causing obvious indicators of widespread starvation, by the return of Rickets in children.

Labour gave up on its voters who invented the party when it became New Labour in the 1980s.

Labour today is still New Labour.

At no time has Labour ever said that food banks are not enough, and there should be the daily free cooked meal and hot drink for all working poor, unemployed and low income pensioners, paid for and cooked by council canteen staff. As done in Europe.

HOW VOTING NEW WILL ACTUALLY CHANGE ENGLAND FOR THE BETTER IN 2015 AND MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE?

Tory MPs are fearful of losing seats in the north of England in 2014 and 2015.

UKIP are not taking Tory votes, but Labour votes in local elections so far. 

So a Free Scotland gives the best chance for the election of the Left Unity Party in 2015 general election.

Now is the time to join and help organise the socialist Left Unity Party. 

No other party will end starvation in England, Wales and Ulster. 

I am not a member of any political party. 

Not least because I have not got a pot to piss in and am too ill to do much more than be a blogger. 

But I see no help from anywhere else for millions like me and worse off, facing or suffering our own personal fiscal cliff down into the abyss of no money for food.

A stage along the road, is to vote on May 22, 2014 in England and nationally:

• No2EU in the national European Elections, and 
• TUSC (a party  - Trade Unionist and Socialist Against the Cuts - that only exists during elections, strangely, yet backed by trade unions like RMT) in the local city elections 

See my personal website home page for more details of these parties and how to ensure you are registered to vote. By clicking here: www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

Also details of the reply to me about pensions and pensioners from the Left Unity Party on my Pension Swans on my personal website: http://www.theswansnewparty.org.uk/pension-swans/4577165085

Trussell Trust Easter Food Bank Appeal - Nearly 1 million Relying on Food Banks

DONATE COST ONE LESS EASTER EGG TO FOOD BANK

Trussell Trust Charity

http://www.trusselltrust.org/easter-appeal

Spur Steak & Grill (from Trussell Trust charity website): 

are donating 20% of the profits from the sale of their Moroccan Lamb Broth this Easter. Click Here for restaurant locations in Scotland, England, and Dublin and Belfast.

LOSS OF BENEFITS CAUSES UK STARVATION

The Trussell Trust has informed they had, in the year 2013 to date in 2014 helped with 3 days' emergency food parcel around 1 million people by vouchers recommending them from some authority or other.

This must indeed be a Titanic sized tip of the iceberg of Hungry Britain.

Because if you are hungry one day, you are hungry every day, with nil income from sanctioned benefits for weeks or losing them altogether, with obviously no other source of money to buy food by the huge surge in the number of food banks since 2010.

We expect the Tories to do this (along with the Liberals now within a Liberals and Labour merger party now called Lib Dems) as they did it in the 19th Century with forbidding giving food to the homeless starving by the New Poor Law.

With benefit loss and loss of state pension payout at 60 for women from 2013, when half women 60-66 are within the working poor and majority reason women 60-66 not in work due to disability / chronic sick, then women are even worse off than men.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension even at 80 from 2016

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Meanwhile, women MPs kept pension payout at 60 and all MPs get the exact same amount women have lost from 2013 as an 11 per cent pay rise in 2015 general election year.

LABOUR WILL CAUSE JUST THE SAME HUNGER IF VOTED INTO GOVERNMENT IN 2015

But all Labour can say today, is that many people are missing out on the beginnings of the economic recovery, instead of Labour stating the fact that it is welfare state abolition (and what else could leaving people with nil income for food).

The need for food banks began to rise under Labour's government back in 2005, when Labour began welfare reform, brought in Atos and invented the Bedroom Tax.

Ed Balls, Labour Shadow Chancellor, has confirmed again and again that Labour in government would just continue Tory welfare reform, even harder than the Coalition now, causing the old, disabled, chronic sick and working poor to starve each and every day. Rickets in children is rising, an ailment caused by starvation.

THE MILLIONS WHO NEED TO VOTE NEW IN 2014 AND 2015 IN THE UK

I followed a pensioner with a trolley with only 4 small items in it, today out of the supermarket.

Pensioners, like many adults of all ages, can end up with not even £11 per week left for food. Believe me, you cannot get much for that. It is not even a couple of days of fish and chip takeaways.

The Trussell Trust state that 4.7 million people live in food poverty, yet Oxfam tells us that 13 million people struggle to make ends meet each and every day.

See my Blog post on Voting in Local city elections and European Elections May 22, 2014.
http://theswansnewparty.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/how-socialists-could-prove-care-about.html

Same parties to vote for in 2015 general elections, that will be the only ones who will feed everyone, leave few homeless on the street and end Austerity and Welfare Reform, that just added to national debt, whilst causing greater ill health by debt and hunger.

HUNGRY ONE DAY, HUNGRY EVERY DAY - HOW THE UK LEAVE THE NATION TO STARVE

As the Trussell Trust, along with other anti-poverty charities, say that the UK government is breaching international law by violating the human right to food, then the government should be doing what is done throughout Europe.

In Europe, not just charities, but local government, provide daily free cooked meals and hot drink not just to the homeless on the street, but the majority of those being fed being the working poor on the way to work and impoverished pensioners, suffering ever greater cuts to their pensions (both from state and works pensions).

PENSIONERS LIKE THE YOUNG HAVE NO CURRENT PARTY WHO CARES LESS

In the UK, the same is being suffered by current pensioners and those denied state pension payout (you can receive payout whilst remaining in work) by UK state pensions not linked to average wages, the loss of value of annuities to get a decent payout from a private pension, and many who lost works pensions when companies went bust.

The average council pension is not even £4000 for men and around £2000 for women.

Many Austerity public sector job cuts were gain by early retired in their 50s in lieu of redundancy in the around 1 million job losses already lost or due gone by 2018. Two thirds of these job losses are to women.

How Socialists Could Prove Care About Saving Peoples' Lives Today?

AROUND 4 MILLION UNDER 30s AND           WOMEN AGED 60 FROM 2013                             COMING OFF OR NEVER ON ELECTORAL ROLL

In 2010 last general election, over 60 per cent of under 30s did not vote.

Why should they, as all the under 30s are offered is slavery under Workfare for nil wages, with private profit making companies being a burden on the taxpayer.

Today, there is no point in women aged 60 since 2013 in voting for any party, with the loss of state pension payout, whilst women MPs have kept the payout and the exact same sum taken as an 11 per cent pay rise for all MPs from 2015 general election year.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

HOW APATHY ACTUALLY IS CAUSING US          BEING LEFT PENNILESS                                                    WHILST MPs ENJOYING ARISTOCRATIC LIFESTYLE ON US?

At the moment, few people participate in politics by joining a political party and help organising it.

Even fewer bother to come out and vote.

Then we face becoming penniless, homeless and starving as a result.

Or even check you are on the electoral roll (see how to make sure registered to vote through my personal website home page - www.theswansnewparty.org.uk )

Only government can pass laws or bring about guidelines that would save our lives.

Right now, all the current political class are an enemy to vast majority of the citizens of the UK, who are eligible to vote.

Even The Greens did severe Austerity in the one council The Greens rule, Brighton, a town largely of poor university students, working poor and low income pensioners.

Meanwhile, true socialist parties just bicker and argue and so show they actually could not care less about all those who are dying today, and who they could save in 2015.

So how could they change and save our lives?

HOW A MERGED SINGLE PARTY COULD PROVE THEY CARE ABOUT SAVING OUR LIVES?

There are parties that have put out candidates, got a good measure of media exposure or have some trade union funding.

If all their manifestos were merged and just blanket agreement of whatever already agreed in those parties, then campaigning could begin by advertisements paid by trade unions (all of them bar none) today, to put out leafletting and billboards. especially on bus stops, to inform the millions suffering today.

This also proves trade unionism is serious about being anti-Austerity.

To gain membership and to gain the voters for this new merged party, everyone else is ignoring by the millions.

Even Tory pensioners are about to be hit again, by doing them for fraud for asking for Pension Credit, whilst receiving a private pension, when even with this little money, most pensioners have not even £11 per week left over for food.

The state pension is below the legal level under the Social Charter of £138 per week as it is (as well as benefit for people of all ages who should also be getting that money), whilst UK government ignores the Council of Europe informing Coalition they are in breach of international treaty law by only £102-£110 state pension. Pension Credit is around £35 per week (?)

Even worse is to come with the Flat Rate Pension from April 2016, that is not more pension but less and even for millions no state pension at all and nil income in old age, 

Even to someone turning 80 from 2013 losing a little £66 per week (sum 2014) pension as new claimant.

WHICH PARTIES SHOULD MERGE AND PROVE THEY CARE?

- No2EU - trade union backed - endorsed by the late lamented Wedgwood Benn and Bob Crowe).

- TUSC - Trade Unionist and Socialist Against Cuts - endorsed by the late lamented
Bob Crowe.
(TUSC said the words that gave me hope -
along with a third of a million women like me so far who have lost state pension payout at 60 since 2013 - a state pension payout which legally you can receive whilst remaining in your job or getting a new job -

of:

   The state pension is not some generous gift that government can withdraw at whim, 

but deferred wages from our youth.

Exactly right at 12 per cent National Insurance each year from our wages. 

- Left Unity Party -
not much funding from anywhere yet,
first national conference was on March 29, 2014 with few attending -
begun by The Guardian newspaper, who have gone on silent on Left Unity Party ever since, by article published by Ken Loach, film-maker who made the film talking to people who were helped by the start of the welfare state in 1945 -
including my grandparents and then my elderly parents right up to their passing in 2011.
Spirit of 45.

Even The Independent, that has a major speaker for Left Unity Party, does not mention the party much, including in its cheaper paper, The I.

This merged party, could then begin the task of persuading Labour voters and Labour party members to join this new party.

Then to encourage sitting Labour MPs to change allegiance and sign up to the new merged party and run as candidates for the new merged party in 2015 general election.

In the meantime, below is the blurb from the Socialist website about the elections on May 22, 2014.

EUROPEAN ELECTIONS AND LOCAL ELECTIONS MAY 22, 2014

This is the election blurb for two of the above parties for the elections next month.

Find Out Here if you are having a local council election 

"Local elections: Vote for a real alternative - vote TUSC

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, which includes the RMT tranport workers’ union and the Socialist Party, is standing in the 2014 local elections to give a real alternative.

Our candidates are workers, trade unionists, the disabled, the unemployed, anti-cuts campaigners: peo- ple hit by and fighting back against the cuts – unlike the Con-Dems, Labour and UKIP.

All TUSC councillors will: 

• • Vote against cuts to jobs and services and instead fight for the resources that our communities need – make the banksters pay for their crisis!
• • Call for rent controls instead of benefit caps. Councils should refuse to implement the bedroom tax and all other housing benefit cuts, and write off all related arrears
• • Oppose selling-off council estates and will fight
• for a mass building programme
• of affordable public housing 
• • Push councils to use their
• legal powers to oppose government privatisation and cuts, especially in our NHS, including referring decisions to the health secretary and/or initiating local referenda
• • Campaign for the introduction of a Living Wage above the minimum wage,
• including for council employees and those
• working for council contractors 
• • Support all workers’ struggles against the cuts
• and privatisation 
• • Reject increases in council tax, rent and service
• charges to compensate for government cuts • Vote against the privatisation of council jobs
• and services 
• • Oppose racism and fascism and stand up for
• equality for all

(Living Wage can be done. Rotherham Council is doing it from October 2014.)

European elections: Vote No2eU - Yes To Workers’ Rights - 

European Elections are national everywhere in the UK.

No2EU – Yes To Workers’ Rights, which is led by the RMT union.

No2EU opposes the pro-privatisation, pro-profiteering, anti-worker policies of the European Union.

No2EU says:

• Yes to workers’ rights

• Exit the EU on the basis of socialist policies

• Reject EU treaties and policies that privatise our public services

• Repeal anti-trade union rulings by the European Court of Justice and the EU

• No to public spending cuts whether they come from Brussels or Britain

Voting UKIP in European Elections could change Labour to also have a simple in or out referendum on membership of the EU, that

• took away women's state pension payout at 60 by EU Directive throughout Europe
• Austerity taking away workers rights as well as cause of deaths from end of welfare state"

 End of their election blurb

Three parties on right and left listed on my personal website for European Elections May 22, 2014:

As The Swans is my personal website, I have put right wing parties on as well to be even handed. But all are for leaving EU membership.

Vote UKIP and change Labour to also have an EU in / out referendum in their 2015 general election manifesto.

Labour is the party of the squeezed middle (average wage around £26,000 - £31,000 - £40,000 - funny the exact people being priced out of London's housing rental and having to commute long distances).

www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

How Vote UKIP on May 22 and Change Labour

HOW VOTING UKIP WOULD CHANGE LABOUR?

Although there is a left wing anti-EU party called No2EU, funded and backed by UK trade unions, it is nowhere in the news, like UKIP is practically every day.

Three parties in the UK offering anti-EU vote on May 22, 2014 European Elections, are on my home page of my yet unformed party, The Swans new party 

www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

UKIP won, in the polls, when Nigel Farage had a televised debate with the Lib Dems Nick Clegg on the European Elections, to be held in the UK on May 22, 2014.

Hardly a week goes by without Nigel Farage, UKIP Leader, being in the news.

LABOUR IS CHASING LABOUR VOTERS DESERTING THEM FOR UKIP

Labour has changed out of all recognition to the party before the 1980s and back to when it was invented at the turn of the 20th Century, just before the First World War.

The reason Labour has changed is that Labour is chasing the UKIP vote, especially in the north of England where the Tories are in terminal decline, as happened to the Tory party in Scotland (only 1 Tory MP now left up there).

UKIP is the party gaining the blue collar pensioner vote, that voted Labour in their youth, with 70 per cent of UKIP's membership being pensioners.

OLDER VOTERS ONLY ONES LEFT VOTING

As 60 per cent of young people (under 30s) do not vote and over 4 million young people are not on the electoral roll, then it is the over 50s who are the majority left voting in the UK.

So the voters between 40 and infinity could change Labour.

How?

Incredibly, by Labour voters coming out in great numbers and voting UKIP in the European Elections on May 22, 2014.

Why?

Labour will then change its policy on EU membership and give the voters a referendum on Europe in its general election manifesto for 2015.

Another way to change both Labour and UKIP is for 

women aged 60 since 2013, 

men at 65 since 2013 losing the higher age related tax allowance, and 

all the men and women being left with nil income forever in old age, 

to sign my online petition, 

before the gagging law ends all petitions soon.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Disabled Scots Keep Jobs in a Free Scotland

DISABLED INDEPENDENT LIVING FUND ENDS IN 2015

In England, the Independent Living Fund that helps the disabled remain in work and live independent lives in their own home, ceases being funded from next year, 2015.

The Fund has been closed to new claimants since 2010.

Half of women aged 60-66 in the UK are within the working poor, and those benefits being lost.

A third of Londoners are within the working poor and being driven out of London with such policies as cutting housing benefit if you cannot move from part-time to full-time work.

You could have had your state pension payout at 60 for women and still remain in your job, but the Pension Bill took the state pension payout at 60 away to up to a third of a million women since 2013.

Worse is to come with the Flat Rate Pension, that is not more pension but less or nil income altogether in old age, especially to women.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

WHY SCOTTISH DISABLED NEED A FREE SCOTLAND?

The Scottish government has announced that the Scottish Independent Living Fund (SILF) will continue even though London government ends the funding in England and rest of UK next year, 2015.

The SILF will be re-opened to new claimants as well as kept for current users, so that the disabled can remain independent living in their own home, stay in work and have access to education and training.

http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Scottish-Independent-Living-Fund-b69.aspx Page 1 of 3

To fully be able to make this possible, only in an independent Scotland can the Scottish government have the full powers to protect vulnerable people and help them in work and in life.
Yes Campaign
http://www.snp.org/referendum

How Under 30s Voting Helps Their Grandparents and Themselves

60 PER CENT OF UNDER 30s DID NOT VOTE IN LAST GENERAL ELECTION

Nearly two thirds of young people did not even bother to vote for any political party in 2010 last general election.

It is said around 4 million UK young people (18 - 30 years of age) are not even signed onto the electoral roll.

ALL CURRENT POLITICAL CLASS HAVE LOST VOTER TURNOUT IN UK

Voter turnout by all ages is on a downward death spiral in the UK.

The Tories have alienated their core vote, but only a third changed their vote to UKIP, in amongst a mostly elderly voter group.

Labour did not lose the last general election in 2010. 

What happened in 2010, was traditional Labour voters of all ages just folded up their arms and voted for no political party.

THE GREENS AND LABOUR ARE NOT WHO YOU MIGHT THINK THEY ARE

The Greens enacted Austerity in the one council the Greens rule, Brighton, that is a town with a large student population and young working poor families.

Labour is the party of the squeezed middle (average wages of between £26,000 - £31,000 per year) and has collaborated with Coalition government's huge tax and benefit losses and lost pension payout to women in both the working poor and squeezed middle.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

The Labour party is not the party of the true working class who are:

• the working poor, 
• that include young single people suffering Workfare even under Labour
• young families who encompass the many Londoners being priced out of jobs in the one city that has economic growth in the recession in the UK,
• as well as half of women aged 60-66  who are within the working poor

and the disabled and chronic sick of all ages losing benefits:

• majority reason women aged 60-66 are not employed, 
• along with children and young adults not able to work, 

IS THE NEW LEFT UNITY PARTY A SOLE HOPE FOR MAJORITY OF UNDER 30s IN THE UK 2015 GENERAL ELECTION?

The Greens appear to be a party of the young, yet it is their green agenda which has made energy bills unaffordable to the many.

The Greens believe in Austerity and Welfare Reform, by what they have done in Brighton, where they are the party in power in the council.

By young people joining as membership and being involved in policy commissions in the new Left Unity Party, young people can focus the party on gaining interest in voting again in the UK for all ages, but especially the youngest that are the future of any hope of a people voting democracy in the UK.

IS THE NEW LEFT UNITY PARTY THE SOLE PARTY OFFERING THE END OF STARVATION IN THE UK?

Gandhi observed that People's Politics Are Their Daily Bread.

With over 13 million people struggling to make ends meet each day in the UK today, and the starvation caused by welfare reform get ever deeper, in the one nation in Europe not providing free cooked meals and hot drink each and every day to the hungry, who are the working poor and low income pensioner in the main, then Left Unity Party could save the voting habit in the UK, in a way no other party could.

About page on Left Unity party's website:
http://leftunity.org/about/

In amongst their policies are:
http://leftunity.org/a-raft-of-solid-left-wing-policy-conference-report/

- minimum wage to be a living wage

- end austerity cuts

- end welfare cuts

- scrapping zero hour contracts

- abolishing destitution

- end Bedroom Tax

- more social housing

- affordable rents for all

Their full housing policy passed by national conference on March 29 is on page:
http://leftunity.org/housing-policy/

including:

• To work to develop effective housing plans for flood prone areas.
• Housing rights and benefits for under-25 year olds to be respected and previous caps reversed.
• To legalise squatting for emergency housing need or to bring vacant property back into use.

Proof No-one Really Watches The News

SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE YES CAMPAIGN

Watching a lady at the SNP Conference in Aberdeen, talking for the Yes Campaign, a retort from the Englishman was a laugh out loud moment.
Yes Campaign website:
http://www.yesscotland.net/

The Englishman cited that history showed people did not vote yes to independence in the world.

AN ENGLISHMAN NOT KNOWING HISTORY

An example the Englishmen cited was just plain silly.

He said that Czechoslovakia stayed together, when the two nations separated into the Czech and Slovak Republics on 1 January 1993.

You just look at your next weekend trip to Prague that is in the Czech Republic.

And went on as if Scotland has been ruled by England throughout history, when it only became part of England in 1707 AD after about ten thousand years of Celtic occupation, when any man lived in the British Isles.

STILL TODAY KEEP MEETING WOMEN WHO THINK THEY ARE GETTING STATE PENSION AT 60 OR NEXT YEAR

As few people bother to read the news in print or online or watch the news on TV, with not one interest at all in politicians or politics save when MPs fiddle their expenses, then people do not know what is about to befall them until it is too late.

Pensioner bashing is done by all parties, including The Greens who are the source of fuel poverty from half of unaffordable energy bills made up of green taxes.

The Pension Bill (all of them since 2010) took payout of pension to women reaching 60 from 2013 (a third of a million so far) when women MPs have kept the payout at 60 if within 10 years of 60 unlike the rest of us, and all MPs gain exactly the same lost amount to women of state pension, as an 11 per cent pay rise in 2015 general election year.

There is worse to come with the Flat Rate Pension, that is not more pension but
nil income in old age, especially to women and to a lot of men.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Right-wing Daily Telegraph promotes Labour!

NOW WE KNOW LABOUR IS JUST ANOTHER TORY PARTY

Incredible but true. 

An article in the Daily Telegraph, the arch blue Tory newspaper, on 8 April 2014, calls Ed Miliband as a more hopeful prophet, whilst saying the plan put forward at a local speech by him was broadly similar to one produced by Tory Lord Heseltine in the past.

Lord Adonis describes the plan as Heseltine on steroids.

But the article did confirm that London has almost all the signs of the nation's recovery, in contrast to the rest of the UK, along with the majority of government's transport infrastructure investment. 

LABOUR IS THE PARTY OF THE SQUEEZED MIDDLE NOT THE POOR

Labour's cost of living only appears to deal with the squeezed middle, as offering the middle class better jobs in the vain hope this will offer a ladder of opportunity to the working poor.

A squeezed middle where pay rises are being to happen will not be interested in Labour. 

Incredible for a Daily Telegraph article they cited that Labour was not for blue collar workers not on a living wage, with the reports published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundations that people are choosing whether to eat or heat and falling into rent arrears because of the bedroom tax.

Describing Labour as viewing those in the north of England as an anachronistic race of Andy Capps preserved in beer and Woodbines. 

LABOUR MAKES THE MISTAKE OF CHASING UKIP

If Labour win in 2015 to form a government, then UKIP could profit by the unpopularity of Labour's term in office by winning the 2020 general election, as the article stated that of the 100 seats giving a potential future of more UKIP votes, 72 were held by Labour, including Ed Miliband's seat.

LABOUR OR UKIP - BOTH MORE PAIN FROM WELFARE REFORM AKA ABOLITION OF WELFARE STATE

As Ed Balls has said they will just follow Tory spending plans, as shown now by the Heseltine on steroids idea by Labour for regional decentralisation, then there is no point in voting for yet another right wing party.

NEITHER LABOUR NOR UKIP OFFER THE WORKING POOR AND LOW INCOME PENSIONER ANYTHING

As Labour is appearing in articles in the true blue Daily Telegraph, in an article also extolling the virtues of UKIP, then we can see that we have a tweedledee and tweedledum alert of exact clone political parties of each other to the right of politics.

Amongst the working poor, are the half of women 60-66 on wages flat-lined to 2002 levels.

The majority reason women aged 60-66 not in work is due to disability and / or chronic illness and those benefits being lost or never gained.

The Bedroom tax impact pensioners by the raised retirement age, meaning if one partner is below 66 for women and older or older for men, then they suffer the Bedroom Tax.

Whilst MPs can get away with expenses scandals, profit on house sales without paying capital gains tax, and getting a second home expenses of £20,100 per year of whole houses of spare room subsidy.

The Pension Bill was bad enough. Worse is to come with the Flat Rate Pension in 2016, which is less or even nil income in old age altogether, especially to women.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Coalition say care about disabled when they do not

COALITION PROMOTE THAT THEY CARE ABOUT DISABLED TO NATIONS ABROAD WHEN LEAVING DISABLED PEOPLE DESTITUTE AT HOME

A report by the Commons International Development Committee has praised efforts by international development ministers to promote disabled rights.

But further said the Committee should use Britain's international influence to prevent the disabled people remaining the poorest of the poor and facing appalling abuse.

It is hard to believe that politicians are portraying the UK has caring about the poor disabled, when the experience of hundreds and thousands of disabled people in the UK is exactly the opposite.

What disabled rights, when so many are sanctioned off benefits and the cruel assessment procedure that Atos has mostly run away from, other than for the new disability benefit, Personal Independence Payments.

WELFARE REFORM HAS HIT OLD SICK AND DISABLED HARD

Half of women aged 60-66 are within the working poor, on wages flat-lined to 2002 levels.

The Bedroom Tax hits pensioners if one partner is below the raised retirement age, especially for women losing over half a decade of state pension payout (around £43,000 over 6 years).

Housing and welfare benefit cap hits those deemed to still be of working age, by the rise in retirement age.

The majority reasons women aged 60-66 are not in work is due to disability / chronic sick and these benefits being lost or never gained.

Without state pension, cannot access Winter Fuel Allowance.

Without benefits, cannot access Cold Weather Payment.

The Pension Bill was bad enough.

Worse is to come with the Flat Rate Pension, that is not more pension but less or nil money in old age altogether. With the end of Pension Credit, SERPs and State Second Pension, so less additional pension that you might have hoped.

See if you lost most or all of your state pension:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Why Labour Should Merge with new Left Unity Party Today

LABOUR MERGED WITH ANOTHER PARTY IN 1981

In 1981, major Labour figures left the Labour party and merged with the Liberal party and so was born the Lib Dems, that are now in Coalition with the Tories in current government in power.

So we have Labour in coalition with the Tories, inside the Lib Dems, already.

THE TORIES AND LIBERALS ABOLISHED THE WELFARE STATE BEFORE

The Tories and Liberals together brought about in the 19th Century, the Workhouse and the New Poor Law that forbade feeding people left penniless and homeless out on the streets.

This, of course, is being re-run today by the Coalition with welfare reform that is merely massive extra national debt by the billion, to bring about the end of the welfare state, social medicine and state pensions.

LABOUR HAS MERGED WITH TORIES TODAY ANYWAY

Ed Balls, Labour's Shadow Chancellor, has confirmed that Labour in power after 2015 general election, would just continue Tory spending plans and be even harder on welfare reform than even the Tories and continue to enslavement of the young with Workfare Plus.

LABOUR BEGAN THE ABOLITION OF THE WELFARE STATE

In the last government, Labour began welfare reform, brought in Atos and invented the Bedroom Tax.

It was under Labour's launch of welfare reform that food bank use began to rise as far back as 2005, long before the Coalition coming into power in 2010.

So Labour is a carbon copy Tory party today, with Labour already in the Coalition, with the merged Labour and Liberals party now called Lib Dems.

THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF COALITION OF LABOUR AND LIB DEMS

The Lib Dems will suffer election defeat, as they are doing in many local elections, even losing their deposits, after suffering massive loss of membership.

A FREE SCOTLAND MEANS LABOUR PARTY CANNOT FORM A GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND

A Free Scotland will mean that Labour cannot form a government in England.

Why?

Because Labour will have insufficient MPs against 299 Tories in England (only 1 Tory M P in Scotland).

Labour losing 41 Labour MPs when Scotland wins its independence from a London.

Yes Campaign in Scotland
http://www.yesscotland.net/

WHAT COULD LABOUR PARTY MEMBERS AND SITTING LABOUR MPs DO NOW INSTEAD?

There is a new socialist party, I hear, that has had its inaugural meeting and now its first national conference and so ready for campaigning for the 2015 general election, called the Left Unity Party.

Labour could do again what it did in 1981, saying 'to break the mould of UK politics'.

All parties now, including Labour and The Greens, believe and enact Austerity and Welfare Reform.

Sitting Labour MPs, 
councillors and 
Labour Party members could defect to the
Left Unity Party now:
http://leftunity.org/membership-form/

WHY?

The working class is not represented by the Labour Party, which poorest people fought and died to bring it into existence only about a century ago, as their political party for the first time in UK history.

Who are the working class?

• The working poor of all ages including men raised retirement age, 
• low income pensioners
• Working poor includes women lost state pension at 60 from 2013, and 
• disabled / chronic sick poor of all ages

LABOUR OFFERS THE WORKING CLASS NOTHING

Working class needing benefits being lost or never gained as legal minimum wage is nowhere near a living wage.

Benefit bill is 97 per cent working poor and pensioners.

Only 3 per cent is the unemployed, including adult disabled lost benefits as unable to work but deemed fit for work when they have no such ability.

Within unemployed are pensioners dumped onto unemployed benefits because of:

• raised retirement age, 
• no state pension payout and 
• lost or cut benefits for disability / chronic illness.

Benefits are a round robin of self-funding from the 75 per cent of personal taxation that comes from Indirect Taxes and VAT, even on food, and not a burden on other taxpayers (Income Tax only brings in 26p in the pound of tax to government from people).

LABOUR OFFER LOW INCOME PENSIONERS NOTHING

The state pension is not a benefit, but deferred wages from our youth and not some generous gift from government to be withdrawn at whim.

National Insurance on the first tax band after basic tax allowance, has been 12 per cent on annual wage all our working lives.

A third of a million women to start with, began to lose £43,000 state pension payout over 6 years from 2013, of their survival food and fuel money as:

• Half of women 60-66 are within the working poor needing benefits as minimum wage by law is far below a living wage and benefits to top-up being lost.
• Majority reason women 60-66 not in work is due to disability / chronic sick and those benefits being lost.

See if you lost most or all of your state pension:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

WHY DO I CARE?

After generations of my family voting Labour, probably as far back as Labour party's existence, Labour party no longer offering me and millions like me anything at all.

Disabled and chronic sick - never gained benefits - medically diagnosed.

Dame Anne Begg, Labour, Chairwoman of Commons Select Committee on Works and Pensions, said Labour thought other things were more important than the state pension for funding in their last government.

Labour did not bring back the 1975 law passed by Labour to guarantee the payout of pensions, that the Tories revoked in 1993.

Labour have not confirmed they will revoke the Pension Bill (all of them since 2010) and even worse to come from the Flat Rate Pension 2016.

With the end of Pension Credit in 2016 and a lot of works and public sector pensions having taken all staff our of SERPs or the State Second Pension, then what state pension I do get after 2016 will be massively reduced.

So get less forever into old age, even if the state pension exists by then.

Meanwhile, Labour MPs will equally get the 11 per cent pay rise from 2015 general election year.

Almost exactly the amount of state pension lost to a third of a million women so far since 2013, when women MPs, of course, kept the pension payout at 60.

So from a lifelong Labour voter, no more votes from me or the millions betrayed by a Labour, who actually 'breach' their trade description act (so to speak) by their name when Labour are not the party of the working class at all.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a member of any political party, just a victim of all the current political class, as are millions of people in the UK today.