For six years, the Tory Government has carried out sweeping cuts on people's income. They have decimated social services of all kinds in the name of dealing with the financial crisis caused by the banks and financial institutions.
Those financial institutions are still creating havoc buying and selling shares, regardless of the effect on people's lives both here and overseas. Yet despite all the evidence of greed and mismanagement, political action taken by the Tories is mainly against the people, not the culprits.
How did the Tories manage to poll 37 per cent of votes cast in the 2015 general election, giving them enough to form a government, even if not a majority of the population's vote?
Their access, support and possible control of most avenues of information, including newspapers etc, gave them a tremendous advantage. Their "we have a plan" mantra, repeated over and over again, convinced many people to give them another chance: a terrible mistake. The bad effects of their policies will be increasingly felt.
The Tories always were and always will be the political representatives of the rich, who assume it is their natural right to govern. That leaves the Labour movement of unions, co-operatives, the Labour Party and SNP to represent the 90 per cent of the population who are wage earners.
The Labour movement must now show they have a plan: a plan that works for and benefits the 90 per cent of the population, for example through services that allow those people to function. Industries supplying gas, electricity, water, rail and road transport services, alongside others, must be free from private profit-making.
A Delahoy
Edinburgh
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