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Parliamentary Candidates the LRC Particularly Backs

13th May 2017

Parliamentary Candidates the LRC Particularly Backs

Good Guys

Here are some Labour candidates you will be proud and privileged to campaign for.
We think Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North), John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington) and Diane Abbot (Hackney North and Stoke Newington) are safe in their constituencies, but back them up anyway.

Lend a hand in:
• Battersea (currently Tory) to Marsha de Cordova
Blyth Valley to Ronnie Campbell
• Bolsover to Dennis Skinner
Brighton Kemptown to Lloyd Russell-Moyle,
• Broxtowe to Greg Marshall (taking on Anna Soubry)
• Derby North to Chris Williamson (Tory majority just 412 in 2015)
’ East Worthing & Shoreham to Sophie Cook,
• Edmonton to Kate Osamor
• Hastings and Rye to Peter Chowney
• Islington South and Finsbury to Emily Thornberry
• Lancaster and Fleetwood to Cat Smith (majority 1,265 in 2015)
• Leeds East to Richard Burgon
• North West Durham to Laura Pidcock
• Norwich South to Clive Lewis
Rochdale to Tony LLoyd
• Rotheram to Sarah Champion
• Salford and Eccles to Rebecca Long-Bailey
• Wansbeck to Ian Lavery
Weaver Vale to Mike Amesbury
• Wirral West to Margaret Greenwood (majority just 417 in 2015)

This campaigning tool from Momentum may be helpful here
Readers and supporters are welcome to nominate other candidates to the list.

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...]

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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...]