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Austerity – That’s Enough! Hastings & Rother LRC public meeting

4th March 2015

Austerity – That’s Enough!

Hastings & Rother LRC public meeting

2pm – 4.30pm, Saturday 14 March 2015
The White Rock Hotel, White Rock, Hastings TN34 1JU

Millions exist on the breadline due to austerity. Over the past five years ordinary people have paid a high price in lost jobs, low wages, reduced hours and wrecked public services. This massive attack on our living standards has all been to bailout failed bankers, provide tax cuts to millionaires and pay for wars overseas. We say: Austerity – That’s Enough! Why not increase taxes on the rich and use the billions spent on war and weapons for our NHS, homes, jobs, public services and schools?

Discuss these and other issues with leading anti-austerity campaigner and the LRC’s National Chair John McDonnell MP,
Jay Kramer, Chair of Hastings & Rye Labour Party, who retired as one of Tressell ward’s councillors in 2014,
and Simeon Elliott from Labour CND.

Meet Hastings & Rother LRC at this public event at The White Rock Hotel, starting 2pm on Saturday 14 March 2015. Hastings & Rother LRC members hold regular, friendly and informal meetings. You will be able to obtain details of the group’s next meeting at this event.

All welcome.

Background

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