2009 News Archive

Nuneaton Socialist Party to contest by-election

Nuneaton Socialist Party will be standing Steve Gee, a member of the PCS civil service union, in a County Council by-election after Nuneaton and Bedworth’s Tory Mayor was forced to resign as the new ward councillor just days after being elected on 4^th June.

This followed a complaint made by the local New Labour group, who previously held the seat, that his nomination paper was invalid as he was still an employee for the county council at the time that it was submitted.

The by-election in the Arbury & Stockingford ward will take place on July 16^th and will cost local council taxpayers an estimated £20,000. 

While the Tories and New Labour get embroiled in a petty rows over the rights and wrongs of local government electoral law the Socialist Party will be out campaigning on real local and national issues offering working class voters an alternative to the tired old establishment parties and the racist BNP.

Steve Gee, the Socialist Alternative candidate, told the local press;

“We need honest working people to represent us, not the establishment parties whose worship of the fat cats and bankers has brought us unemployment, privatisation, closures and cuts in services”

Steve and other Nuneaton Socialist Party members have also organised an anti-racist gig that will take place right in the middle of the election campaign.

Steve also added;

“I’m absolutely opposed to the BNP, my Dad fought against the Nazi’s like the BNP in the D-Day landings and I shudder to think of them getting power again.  However its no good just telling people how bad the BNP are, we need to offer an alternative to their politics of division and hate” 

Socialist Party members will be out everyday between now and polling day on July 16^th.

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