https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-demand-labour-changes-course-national-demonstration

People’s Assembly demo on June 7 will warn ministers to stop the cuts and invest or face oblivion

UNIONS will confront Labour’s cuts agenda next month with a national demonstration demanding the party change course.

The People’s Assembly held a press conference today to call on the whole labour movement to march with it at the No More Austerity demonstration in London on Saturday June 7.

The march takes place days before Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to announce her first multi-year spending settlement on June 11, and is intended to maximise pressure on the government to drop Ms Reeves’ self-imposed fiscal rules, tax wealth and profits and raise spending to address funding crises across health, education, local government and many other sectors.

Labour MP Diane Abbott said the disastrous result of this month’s council elections were leading an increasing number of MPs to realise the need to stand up to Mr Starmer and change his policies, she said.

“The result of the Runcorn by-election and the council elections have had an extraordinary effect on my colleagues,” she told the Morning Star. “They can see their majorities crumbling before their eyes, and there’s nothing that concentrates the mind of an MP more than the threat of actually losing their seat and the salary that goes with it.”

More MPs had started to understand that the Starmer clique only knew how to do one thing — attack the Labour left — and was incapable of addressing the bigger challenges of government, she said.

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Thee’s pronouns are Thee, Thine, Thou

Looks like the next decade is going to be increasing temperatures every year continuing what we’ve experienced …

I hope that some of the cnuts will swing …

ed: all of them

ed: I expect that I will be taking part in that, stringing them up

ed: I suppose we ought to plan who and how to hold them responsible.

Look and listen, the point is that climate destruction is happening now. The Capitalists are responsible for this, they decided to profit by destroying the planet.

How should we hold them responsible? Are you sure that we shouldn’t be far more severe? They did decide to destroy all life remember.

ed: I’m not sure that you can imagine how severe I want to punish them