"We
live in strange times.
We’ve
had 7 years of a Tory government who have hammered ordinary folk
Poverty
pay
Rises
in insecure labour and zero hours contracts
Wages
cap and vastly increasing inequality between the rich and the rest of us
Hideous
caps on benefits and a benefits system described by Ken Loach at the STUC as
“conscious cruelty” - “a campaign of systematic punishment” which leaves more
and more of our children, disabled people and elderly in poverty and distress
Our
young people hit particularly hard
Cuts
to the NHS and public services and a massive selling off of the NHS – our NHS
(especially in England and Wales) – to
private companies running for profit not patient care.