Councillor Fay Howard is calling on residents to support the TUC’s ‘March for the Alternative’ on the 26th March, in London. Unions across Swindon will be runnning coaches, pledge your support through your union now or get in touch.
Ministers say there is no alternative. but both of the government’s two key decisions are political choices, not economic necessity.
Yet none of these policies were put to the British people at the election, indeed we were told that there was no need for cuts in front-line services.
People round the country are already campaigning against these deep, rapid cuts. Students have shown their opposition to cuts, the ends of EMAs and increases in fees. Parents and teachers have opposed cuts in school building. School sport, libraries and public woodlands all now have strong defenders. Few towns now don’t have their own campaign group.
The TUC’s March for the Alternative has two key aims.
That is why it is the March for the Alternative “ an alternative in which rich individuals and big companies have to pay all their tax, that the banks pay a Robin Hood tax and on in which we strain every sinew to create jobs and boost the sustainable economic growth that will generate the prosperity which is the only long term way to close the deficit and reduce the nation’s debt
Find out more & pledge to join us www.tuc.org.uk/march or http://marchforthealternative.org.uk/
Cllr Fay Howard, Parks Ward