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Category: Andrew Feinstein

  • Andrew Feinstein is challenging Keir Starmer by standing as the independent candidate for Holborn & St Pancras.

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    https://www.andrewfeinstein.org

    Why I’m Standing

    I’ve lived in Camden for over 22 years with my family and cherish the diversity and togetherness of our community. I served in Nelson Mandela’s government as an MP and served on the finance and trade industry committee. I founded an organisation investigating corruption into the global arms trade. Through this work, I’ve seen how our tax money is used to fund weapons, while we’re left with the rising cost of rent, food, and bills. 

    Tories and Labour choose to squeeze working people as the super-rich get richer. The two main parties refuse to tax the extremely wealthy, protect the NHS from further privatisation, or bring in rent caps. Voting for Labour will change nothing.

    I was chosen by members of our community to run as an Independent MP, because of my moral values and experience building an economy that works for people, not corporations. As an Independent, I’ll listen to local people, not billionaires. I’ll work for more and improved social housing, funding for our public services, and an end to the main parties’ support for genocide. It’ll be an honor to serve my community and do what’s best for local people.

  • ‘Britain will be fit to fight within the first year of a Labour government’

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/britain-will-be-fit-to-fight-within-the-first-year-of-a-labour-government

    Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow defence secretary John Healey at the Fusilier Museum in Bury in Greater Manchester, while on the General Election campaign trail, June 3, 2024

    BRITAIN will be “fit to fight” under Labour, party leader Sir Keir Starmer said today in a renewed commitment to militarism.

    The Labour leader also toughened up his commitment to spending far more on arms, saying that under Labour the military budget would aim to reach 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product “as soon as possible.”

    And he both pledged to keep the Trident nuclear weapons system, building four new nuclear-armed submarines with one always ready to launch missiles, and that he would be ready as prime minister to use it.

    “The most important thing is that I voted in favour of a nuclear deterrent,” Sir Keir said.

    “And my commitment to the nuclear deterrent is absolute.

    “Britain will be fit to fight within the first year of a Labour government.

    “We will carry out a new Strategic Defence Review. We are absolutely committed to spending 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence as soon as possible.”

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    Jeremy Corbyn, fighting for Islington North as an independent, said: “Nuclear weapons are a profound and existential threat to humanity. Instead of investing in weapons of mass destruction, we should be investing in our schools, hospitals and housing to ensure everyone can lead a happy and healthy life.

    “That is what real security means.”

    Independent candidate Andrew Feinstein, who is challenging Sir Keir in his own north London constituency, warned that “every single taxpayer’s pound spent on weapons is a pound not spent on our crumbling schools, on reducing NHS waiting lists, on tackling the housing crisis, spiralling rents and the inability of hard-working families to pay the bills.

    “Nearly 40 per cent of children in this constituency are living in poverty. That’s over 12,000 children.

    “Yet Keir Starmer continually tells us he can’t commit to money for them, just money for more bombs and endless wars.”

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/britain-will-be-fit-to-fight-within-the-first-year-of-a-labour-government

    Image of Keir Starmer and a poor child.
    Zionist Keir ‘Kid Starver’ Starmer. Image thanks to The Skwawkbox.