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| Rugby Observer 03/03/2011 |
Rugby Against The Cuts wrote to all the sitting Councillors and their political parties and candidates to ask them to sign our pledge (below) to oppose the cuts that are afflicting such damage on our community.
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Only two Councillors made the effort to even reply to our pledge letter - Our community in Rugby deserves better!
COMMUNITY CANDIDATES
Rugby Against The Cuts will ensure that every seat in Rugby will have a community candidate committed to fighting the cuts - most seats are now filled, but if you are involved in fighting to defend your youth club, local school, care service, fire service, St Cross or fed up with us being forced to pay for the bankers gambling debts - please get in contact - by emailing rugbyagainstthecuts@googlemail.com
RUGBY AGAINST THE CUTS
PO Box 4123 Rugby CV21 9BJ
15th February 2011
Dear
Rugby Against the Cuts is a campaigning group of local trade unionists and political activists determined to do all in its power to prevent the threatened cuts in public spending. As part of its work, it intends to ensure that every voter in the Council elections in Rugby this May has the opportunity to vote for a candidate who opposes all public spending cuts. We are circulating the Pledge below to give all candidates the chance to demonstrate their opposition to the cuts. This will enable us to decide whether to stand a candidate in your ward. Rugby Against the Cuts has decided to promote anti cuts candidates in every ward where there is no other candidate or party who has given a written commitment to oppose all cuts in public spending and support for our alternative proposals.
Please therefore sign and return the Pledge below by Tuesday February 22nd if you oppose the cuts, otherwise we will assume this is not your position.
We await your response
Pete McLaren
Convenor, Rugby Against the Cuts
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PLEDGE
I recognise there is an economic deficit, but I do not believe public spending cuts are the answer. I oppose all cuts in public spending, locally and nationally, and I will vote against all cuts, if elected, at every level.
Furthermore, I support alternative ways of resolving the deficit including:
- A 5% wealth tax on the richest 10%, which, alone, would resolve the debt
- Nationalisation of the banks, building societies and financial institutions, run by the people for the people, thus enabling their vast profits to be used to maintain and improve our public services
- Stricter enforcement of the collection of taxes which the wealthy avoid or evade – these amount to £120 billion per year
- Scrapping Trident and withdrawing from Afghanistan
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