It is critical for the Cypriot community, which is overwhelmingly progressive, to make its voice heard in today’s General Election by supporting Labour, by electing Labour local MPs who will safeguard our public services, protect the NHS and implement policies that protect wages against greedy capitalism and lift the working people from poverty and benefits.
This election will decide the future direction of our nations and regions for generations to come. Our jobs, homes, and living standards, our children’s education, our NHS, how we care for our vulnerable, and our place in the world will be all determined by the vote today. Never before has your vote mattered so much.
Today we say enough is enough by making sure all of the Labour candidates within our reach are elected, and by helping put Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10.
The Left needs to pull together and move forward as a unified body. This is the only way to ensure that we do not suffer another five years of Conservative rule; this is the only way to make sure that our democracy and our rights are protected; this is the only way to secure a fair Brexit deal.
10 good reasons to vote Labour:
1. Real investment in skills and training.
Labour will grow our economy, investing in skills and infrastructure through a national investment bank
2. Under Labour, work will pay
Labour will eradicate insecure zero hours contracts. Labour will ensure that nobody earns less than £10 per hour.
3. Only Labour can be trusted with our NHS
Labour will stop the pay cuts to NHS staff. No more will nurses be so poor that they turn to foodbanks. Labour will halt the cuts to A&E services.
4. A better chance of a better home
The average home to buy now costs almost 8 times the average salary. Only Labour will ensure that renting is affordable, and that one million new homes will be built, council and private, over the next five years.
5. The best education for ALL our children
Conservative plans for grammar and free schools are elitist and a waste of resources. Labour will stop the education cuts, keep class sizes under 30 and ensure our youngest children have a nutritious free school meal.
6. Public transport that supports our communities
Only Labour will end chaotic and costly rail privatisation and support communities to run their own bus services.
7. A stronger voice for YOU
Labour will modernise trade union laws and ensure that unions can negotiate collectively on behalf of some of the most vulnerable workers. Labour will remove the punishing Tory tribunal fees that have denied justice to so many at work.
8. A stronger Britain in the world
Labour will pursue the trading arrangements our economy needs – access to the single market, and barrier-free trade. Labour will honour the rights of the three million EU workers here already, and defend the rights of the million or so UK workers in the EU. Only Labour will target the bad bosses who exploit migrant workers, drive down wages and destroy community cohesion.
9. Affordable, responsible energy under Labour
Labour will invest in new forms of energy to tackle climate change, create the well-paid decent jobs of tomorrow – and keep energy bills low.
10. A fix for our broken economy
Under the Tories, UK living standards have slumped. Among EU economies, only Greece has suffered a harder hit. Labour will tackle the low wage, low skill economy the Tories have created, to build a stronger economy that works for the many, not the few.
Today only Labour deserves your VOTE.