Strike ballot plan is ‘double standard’
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Left Unity has condemned Tory plans to introduce turnout thresholds for strike ballots as a ‘double standard’.
Bianca Todd of Left Unity said:
“The Tories claim there is no mandate for strikes on low turnouts – but look at the turnout in the last general election. Once you take the 65% turnout into account, only 23.5% of eligible voters supported the Conservatives.
“In the May local and European elections it will be even lower. Should politicians not be allowed to take office unless they have 50% of the overall vote?
“There’s a double standard at work here. It’s David Cameron who has no mandate. He has no mandate for cuts and no mandate to strengthen the already draconian anti-union laws.”
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Notes to editors
1. Left Unity is the new party of the left in Britain. Founded in November 2013, it already has over 1,900 members and 50 branches across the country.
2. The new party is standing its first candidates in the May 2014 local elections, in Wigan, Norwich, Bolton, Exeter and Barnet in north London.
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Ha if that does not take the biscuit! From the man whose party did not even win the 2010 General Election in the middle of a world-wide financial crash.
Who is only in power now because the Lost Deposits put him there, whose coalition agreement was not even mandated.