Miliband to support Tory cuts and Royal Mail privatisation!

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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ED MILIBAND, the new Labour Party leader, has made it perfectly clear that his victory does not mean that he is going to oppose the Tory-LibDem cuts and privatisation measures.

On election, he declared that he was not the unions’ man, meaning he intends to support capitalism.

He in fact supports the working class and the middle class being made to pay for the crisis of capitalism. He also supports the anti-union laws, and remains opposed to strikes.

His message to the workers is to take everything that the Tories dish out in the next five years, and then vote Labour back. The fact that five years of the coalition will see the UK turn into a third world country does not bother him.

He has only one difference with the coalition. This is that he wants the £150bn debt crisis, caused by the bankers’ and bosses’ crisis, to be cleared up over two parliamentary terms and not one.

The Labour Party opposition will be supporting Tory cuts and privatisations, including the Tory bill to privatise the Royal Mail and sack at least 30,000 Royal Mail workers.

Ed Miliband is not a socialist and yesterday agreed with the Tories that there are ‘millions of malingerers’ on incapacity and other benefits, who will have to be forced off their benefits to look for non-existent jobs.

Union leaders like Derek Simpson of Unite rushed in yesterday to defend Ed Miliband from the right wing media ‘Red Ed’ attacks. Simpson said that the union leaders did not expect the new Labour Party leader to act on behalf of seven million trade unionists. They expected it to be just another capitalist government that supports anti-union laws.

When faced with ‘Ed’s’ complete subservience to capitalism, and the extreme pacifism of union leaders such as Simpson, who are quite prepared to see their members treated like dirt for the next five years, people are entitled to ask just what is the ‘Red Ed’ fuss about.

In fact, what the bosses and their media are anxious about is that tens of millions of workers are going to be hit hard by savage cuts in the period immediately ahead.

If these workers rise up and take more control over their trade unions and oust the Simpsons, the Barbers and the Woodleys, then the Labour Party might not be able to be so passive, and then the coalition could start to seriously wobble.

Faced with this danger, they naturally would prefer to have a 100 per cent proven Blairite such as David Miliband, who followed Blair loyally to Baghdad and back at the helm of the Labour Party.

This is why they are spelling out that one wobble from the new Labour leadership over the savagery of the cuts, and the Blairite right wing will join the coalition, and split the Labour Party.

The truth of the matter is that the Labour Party has become unreal, and its original vision of moving gradually towards socialism has been shown to be a Fabian mirage. It started with Keir Hardie and ended with Tony Blair, the Iraq war and the 2008 crash. These are revolutionary times and the working class needs its revolutionary party.

In fact, the working class must now deal with its trade union leaders, the Labour Party leaders and the coalition.

The trade unions must tell Miliband that any vote for a Tory cut or privatisation measure will see trade union financing of Labour stopped. The union leaders must be removed and a general strike must be called to bring down the coalition and go forward to a workers’ government. Above all, workers and youth must join and build the WRP to lead the struggle for workers’ power and socialism.

[Straight4ward]

What are we left with The Greens and UKIP for support?

We really are up sh*t creek without a paddle, aren't we?

[Big Daz]

The article is telling fibs about ED M

He will be oppoosing the government and he was the author of the maniofesto whcih said RM to stay publiclly owned.

Ed as with the other 4 said at CWU hustings no to a sell off.

WRP are talking out of their backside.

[Wiggins79]

Ed as with the other 4 said at CWU hustings no to a sell off.

More likely that Ed and his chums will say whatever they think the people in the room want to hear until they can get their grubby little hands back on the power they all crave. Then they'll just carry on doing what they did before: whatever they felt like.

[andy2007]

Either that, or he's changed his mind, now he's got the job. It wouldn't be the first time, that a Politition has lied to get into power.

[Steviea34]

CWU should not have backed the wrong horse, looks a vindictive git, probably
pay back

[Big Daz]

At no point has ED M said he wants to support a sell off, the WRP are just jumping to conclusions.

I see no evidence for the claim, perhaps they are confusing him with David who still supports mandy's grand masterplan?

[NWpostie]

At no point has ED M said he wants to support a sell off, the WRP are just jumping to conclusions.

I see no evidence for the claim, perhaps they are confusing him with David who still supports mandy's grand masturbation?

Fixed that for you

[dblad]

Ed as with the other 4 said at CWU hustings no to a sell off.

More likely that Ed and his chums will say whatever they think the people in the room want to hear until they can get their grubby little hands back on the power they all crave. Then they'll just carry on doing what they did before: whatever they felt like.

Yep, and just a few months ago you could have changed the name Ed to Dave.

[smokerjim]

At no point has ED M said he wants to support a sell off, the WRP are just jumping to conclusions.

I see no evidence for the claim, perhaps they are confusing him with David who still supports mandy's grand masterplan?

Are you telling me that if push came to shove, his advisors might pressurise him to appear or act to the right of left - to deflect media accusatuions of "Red / Lefty / Socialist / Communist / negative left wing synonyms ad naseum", and as a result of that pressure he does speak and act more to the right than he would if left alone?

[POSTMAN]

Is this Ed or Dave,cause all i keep seeing and reading about is Dave Bet Ed's well pissed with it!

[meercat]

'He in fact supports the working class and the middle class being made to pay for the crisis of capitalism.'

That infact is the exact opposite of what he said in his inaugural speech to LP conference. This WRP is doing itself a huge disservice by publishing this complete fiction wrapped in pretty shoddy writing.


From his speech:

We must protect those on middle and low incomes. They did nothing to cause the crisis but are suffering the consequences.

I say the people who caused the crisis and can afford to do more should do more: with a higher bank levy allowing us to do more to protect the services and entitlements on which families depend......


And we need responsibility at the top of society too. The gap between rich and poor does matter. It doesn't just harm the poor it harms us all.

What does it say about the values of our society, what have we become, that a banker can earn in a day what the care worker earns in a year? It's wrong, conference.

I say: responsibility in this country shouldn't just be about what you can get away with.

And that applies to every chief executive of every major company in this country........


We must never again give the impression that we know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

We must be on the side of communities who want to save their local post office, not be the people trying to close it......


We have to challenge the old thinking that flexible labour markets are always the answer.

Employers should not be allowed to exploit migrant labour in order to undercut wages.

And if we have free movement of labour across Europe we need proper labour standards in our economy, including real protection for agency workers.

And, as every democratic country recognises, it is vital that workers have a voice that speaks for them.

I remember during this campaign I met some school dinner ladies. They had to buy their own uniforms, their shift patterns were being changed at a moment's notice, frankly conference they were being exploited.

So they looked to their union to help them. They weren't interested in going on strike, they loved the kids the worked with, they loved their schools. But they wanted someone to help them get basic standards of decency and fairness.

Responsible trade unions are part of a civilised society, every democratic country recognises that.




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