Tag Archives: Tories

By Dave Warren, Swansea As expected, Labour suffered a crushing defeat at the election for the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) on 7 May. Labour won just nine seats out of 96 in a newly extended Senedd, down from 30 seats out of 60 previously. The First Minister, Eluned Morgan lost her seat and has resigned as Labour leader in Wales. It ...

By Mark Best The establishment insider’s outsider, Nigel Farage, spent the week burnishing his party Reform UK’s credentials as a party that will be safe for the very richest in society. On Monday 12 January, former Tory chancellor Nadhim Zahawi announced that he was joining Reform as the country needs a “glorious revolution”. Zahawi, whose career in the Tory party ...

By Joe Fathallah (Socialist Party National Committee) Keir Starmer’s New Labour government has announced its plans to raise tuition fees for the first time in nearly ten years. And such is the depth of crisis in university finances, this will not be enough to solve the funding crisis in higher education. Uni bosses will still go ahead and attempt to ...

Socialist Party statement Not just booted out. The Tories have been crushed. The electorate has punished them for fourteen years of austerity, attacks on the working class, lies and corruption. Less than seven million people went out and voted for the Tory Party, its lowest vote in a century. Ten cabinet ministers and 250 Tory MPs have lost their seats, ...

Build a socialist election challenge Fourteen years of Tory government look set to come to an end on 4 July, 2024. Fourteen years of the super-rich raking in £billions, while the rest of us suffer falling living standards and crumbling public services. No wonder millions will be rejoicing to see the back of Sunak and his cronies. Unfortunately, however, a ...

By Alec Thraves (Swansea Socialist Party and Swansea Trades Council) Tata’s shock announcement, that it will be shutting down all of its Port Talbot coke ovens within a couple of days, will just confirm what most steelworkers already knew and what the Socialist Party has long warned: that there can be no trust in Tata! As part of the fight ...

By Chloe Leslie The ‘two-child limit’ policy prevents parents from claiming child tax credit or Universal Credit for any third, or subsequent, child born after it was introduced by the Tories in April 2017. This vital support could be worth up to £3,235 per child per year, according to the Department for Work and Pensions. 1.5 million children – one ...

By Mark Evans (Branch secretary, Carmarthenshire Unison) The rushed and secretive home office plan to house 207 asylum seekers in Stradey Park Hotel’s 77 rooms by July the 3rd without consultation with the local community and with Carmarthenshire County Council and Hywel Dda Health board and other public bodies only receiving the plans at the last minute has inevitably resulted ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1229 Organise coordinated action in defence of unions punished by the law, including, if needed, a 24-hour general strike Labour authorities must refuse to issue work notices now On Monday 22 May, with trade unionists demonstrating outside parliament, Tory MPs voted the anti-strike Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill through the House of Commons, meaning that ...

Across Wales, and much of England, ambulance workers in GMB and Unite are on strike only answering emergency calls. Anger is growing on the picket line against the UK Tory government’s refusal to even talk about a decent pay rise, but also at the Welsh Labour government that is keeping millions of pounds in reserves while refusing any further rise ...