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General Election 2017. How You Can Help

12th May 2017

General Election 2017
How You Can Help

The LRC supports every Labour candidate. Below is a list of the most marginal constituencies in Britain..

Challenger Swing Needed
Gower Conservative Labour Maj 27 0.1%
Derby North Conservative Labour Maj 41 0.1
City of Chester Labour Chris Matheson Conservative Maj 93 0.2
Croydon Central Conservative Labour Maj 165 0.3
Ealing Central & Acton Labour Rupa Huq Conservative Maj 274 0.5
Ynys Mon (Anglesey) Labour Albert Owen Plaid Cymru Maj 229 0.7
Vale Of Clwyd Conservative Labour Maj 237 0.7
Brentford & Isleworth Labour Ruth Cadbury Conservative Maj 465 0.8
Bury North Conservative Labour Maj 378 0.8

Since the UKIP vote is likely to crumble away to the Tories these are other Labour marginal seats also at risk.

Margaret Greenwood – Wirral West Majority: 417 (0.9 per cent) Second place in 2015: Conservatives
Holly Lynch – Halifax Majority: 428 (1 per cent) Second place in 2015: Conservatives
Daniel Zeichner – Cambridge Majority: 599 (1.1 per cent) Second place in 2015: Liberal Democrats
Wes Streeting – Ilford North Majority: 589 (1.2 per cent) Second place in 2015: Conservatives
Paul Farrelly – Newcastle-under-Lyme Majority: 650 (1.5 per cent) Second place in 2015: Conservatives
John Woodcock – Barrow & Furness Majority: 795 (1.8 per cent) Second place in 2015: Conservatives
Tulip Siddiq – Hampstead & Kilburn Majority: 1138 (2.1 per cent) Second place in 2015: Conservatives
Joan Ryan – Enfield North Majority: 1086 (2.3 per cent) Second place in 2015: Conservatives
Peter Kyle – Hove Majority: 1236 (2.4 per cent) Second place in 2015: Conservatives
Paula Sheriff – Dewsbury Majority: 1451 (2.3 per cent) Second place in 2015: Conservatives

Thanks to Momentum, who have provided this campaigning tool:
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Background

By Ian Hodson It’s great news that a mainstream political party has recognised the importance of taking positive action to raise pay. Since 2008, politicians from all parties along with many in the media, have pushed the narrative that society will somehow improve by imposing austerity and blaming minority groups for the state of the country’s finances. Sadly, many have fallen for this deception and the ‘look over there’ politics that has rose to prominence since the Conservatives returned to power in 2010. [continue...]

Folkestone United – coming together to support migrants Bridget Chapman, Folkestone United, reports [continue...]

No Witch-Hunts In The GMB, Reinstate Keith Henderson (The Online Petition) Keith Henderson Essex LRC member and former Regional Organiser of the GMB Union was dismissed from the GMB last December, Keith has always believed that the real reason for his dismissal was because of his socialist beliefs and the manifestation of his beliefs. [continue...]

Please see our Labour Briefing Website here: LabourBriefing.org [continue...]

The LRC is supporting a broad alliance of campaign groups and trade unions against the proposals in the Welfare Reform Bill (currently before Parliament) and putting forward our alternative based on social justice and welfare for all. [continue...]

Across the country working people are losing their jobs and their homes. Meanwhile the bankers who plunged us into this crisis have been bailed out with billions of pounds of our money. It’s time to fight back. Their Crisis Not Ours! is the LRC’s campaign to bring together workers, pensioners, the unemployed, students, those facing repossession and all those suffering because of an economic crisis that has been imposed on us. The campaign is supporting the demands of the People’s Charter. [continue...]

Rail bosses are using the recession as an excuse to attack jobs and conditions and cut back on services and essential rail works, and hike rail fares - as LEAP research suggested they would. Thousands of jobs are being threatened or have been lost. At the same time rail fat cats are raking in big profits and bonuses on the back of the most expensive fares in Europe. Make no mistake: as the recession worsens so will the attack on rail workers and rail services. [continue...]

The campaign calling on the Government to abandon its plans for privatisation of Royal Mail. The Government has introduced the Postal Services Bill to part-privatise the Royal Mail. With our affiliate union CWU we are fighting to Keep the Post Public! [continue...]

The campaign to demand the Government funds improvements to all existing council housing, and to start building first class council homes to address housing need. For more information see Defend Council Housing website. [continue...]