Emergency Budget - The Poor Paying for the Sins of the Rich
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
The politics of betrayal - Lib Dem Campaign poster May 2010
Following the brutal revelations in the June 22nd emergency budget communities across Scotland face massive cuts in jobs and services and attacks on benefits, pensions and wages as the new ConDem UK Government of David Cameron and Nick Clegg accelerates its assault on public spending.
The budget outlines attacks on public services, over £11 billion worth of cuts in benefits and includes a betrayal of Liberal Democrat promises not to raise VAT which will penalise the poorest hardest.
Despite some populist rhetoric during the election campaign, both The Labour Party, where it controls councils and the SNP Scottish Government intend to make the cuts asked of them rather than standing up for public services workers and working class people in general.
Assemble 11.15am to march off at 11.45– Howard Park, (McLelland Drive entrance) marching through Kilmarnock and returning to the Howard Park for a Rally at approx 1.15pm
The Scottish Defence League’s (SDL) plans for a demonstration in Kilmarnock in defence of “free speech” need to be exposed for the sham that they are. It’s important that people are aware of the truth about the SDL. Far from being an organisation promoting tolerance and free speech, they are a group of hard core racists and islamophobes. The SDL are an off-shoot of the English Defence League (EDL) an organisation with links to the far right and fascist organisations. Wherever the EDL have held demonstrations violence, racisism and islamophobia has followed.
The SDL is much smaller than its EDL counter part and is made up primarily of football casuals and thugs with links to the far right. Previous attempts by the SDL to hold demonstrations in Scotland have been spectacularly unsuccessful. These events in Edinburgh and Glasgow have characterised by very small numbers of SDL supporters being held in pubs by the police whilst in contrast thousands of anti-racists protesters, celebrating the diversity of Scotland’s communities have marched and demonstrated against them. The SDL follow in a long line of far right groups who throughout history have attempted to blame and scapegoat minority communities during periods of economic crisis.
It is not the fault of any ethnic minority or religious group that there is high unemployment, poverty wages, poor housing and threats of billions of pounds of cuts to public services.
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