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.