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| Rugby Advertiser May 19th 2011 |
Thursday, 19 May 2011
LEADING RUGBY ANTI CUTS CAMPAIGNER SPEAKS AT MAJOR TRADE UNION CONFERENCE
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
ANTI CUTS CANDIDATES MAKE THEIR PRESENCE FELT
Rugby Against the Cuts promoted anti cuts candidates across Rugby in last week’s Council Election. “To co-ordinate candidates across all 16 wards was unique,” Rugby Against the Cuts spokesperson Pete McLaren said today. “We gained 2,314 votes in total, averaging 9% across the 16 wards which is more than respectable. Elections are only a small part of our work, and we successfully used them to continue promoting our message that there are alternatives to cuts in public spending such as collecting in the £120 billion per year the rich avoid or evade paying in taxes. Rugby Against the Cuts held stalls and gave out thousands of leaflets detailing these alternatives, he concluded.”
The Green party fielded nine candidates as part of the Rugby Against the Cuts umbrella. Spokesperson Roy Sandison was pleased they had done so. “The Green party nationally and locally is opposed to these spending cuts,” he explained, “and we were delighted to be standing as part this local anti cuts challenge. Our own results were very encouraging, averaging 11% across our nine wards, and we clearly have roots in local communities. Increasing numbers of people are realizing that there is no need to cut public services and that there are alternative ways to resolve the country’s deficit. This is beginning to materialize into votes, as the Lib Dems have found to their cost both locally and nationally. We will be continuing to campaign with Rugby Against the Cuts until these cuts are overturned,” he concluded
“The whole exercise showed how co-operation between different political parties can work,” added Pete McLaren, who is also spokesperson of the Rugby Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. “We made sure there were no clashes between TUSC and Green candidates to avoid spitting the anti cuts vote, and we happily worked together on promoting all the candidates standing under the Rugby Against the Cuts umbrella,’ he concluded.
The full results of all the candidates in the Rugby Borough Council who stood with the support of Rugby Against the Cuts were;
Admirals | Steve Laffy | Green Party 139/6.4% |
Benn | Paul Sandison | Green Party 248/15.4% |
Bilton | Steve Roberts | TUSC - Against the Cuts 122/5.5% |
Brownsover North | Peter Reynolds | Green Party 144/8.0% |
Brownsover South | Clive Dunkley | TUSC - Against the Cuts 122/12.1% |
Caldecott | Julie Weekes | TUSC - Against the Cuts 85/4.3% |
Dunchurch & Knightow | Pete McLaren | TUSC - Against the Cuts 88/3.3% |
Earl Craven | Ellie Roderick | Green Party 171/9.6% |
Eastlands | Bert Harris | TUSC - Against the Cuts 67/3.1% |
Hillmorton | Dave Goodwin | TUSC - Against the Cuts 117/5.8% |
Leam Valley | Geoff Dewhirst | TUSC - Against the Cuts 157/16.2% |
New Bilton | Roy Sandison | Green Party 171/9.0% |
Newbold | Lorna Dunleavy | Green Party 272/16.0% |
Overslade | Laurence Goodchild | Green Party 178/9.3% |
Paddox | Phil Godden | Green Party 83/6.4% |
Ryton on Dunsmore | Sarah Bennett | Green Party 150/25.2% |
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
FIGHTING THE CUTS IN RUGBY AT THE BALLOT BOX!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00gb6yn
Rugby Local Elections - listen from 2.49.11 for the voice of the anti cuts candidates - Rugby Green Party and Rugby TUSC.
Elliott Webb sits in. Tune in for news, calls and laughter.
Monday, 2 May 2011
RUGBY AGAINST THE CUTS SAY: ONLY VOTE FOR CANDIDATES WHO REALLY OPPOSE THE CUTS!
| Admirals | Steve Laffy | Green Party |
| Benn | Paul Sandison | Green Party |
| Bilton | Steve Roberts | TUSC - Against the Cuts |
| Brownsover North | Peter Reynolds | Green Party |
| Brownsover South | Clive Dunkley | TUSC—Against the Cuts |
| Caldecott | Julie Weekes | TUSC—Against the Cuts |
| Dunchurch & Knightow | Pete McLaren | TUSC -Against the Cuts |
| Earl Craven | Ellie Roderick | Green Party |
| Eastlands | Bert Harris | TUSC - Against the Cuts |
| Hillmorton | Dave Goodwin | TUSC - Against the Cuts |
| Leam Valley | Geoff Dewhirst | TUSC - Against the Cuts |
| New Bilton | Roy Sandison | Green Party |
| Newbold | Lorna Dunleavy | Green Party |
| Overslade | Laurence Goodchild | Green Party |
| Paddox | Phil Godden | Green Party |
| Ryton on Dunsmore | Sarah Bennett | Green Party |
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