the RESPECT party

Public sector workers go on strike on Wednesday, including many in Tower Hamlets. They have my support and the support of my colleagues in the Respect Party.

This Condem government has made the financial crisis much worse by their programme of swingeing cuts. They are privatising the health service, dismantling the comprehensive education system, victimising disabled people and launching an unprecedented assault on the provisions our forbears who fought in the Second World War struggled so hard to win.

Now they want to make public servants pay for a crisis that is not of their making through reduced pensions and increased contributions. This represents a massive assault on their living standards, whilst the bankers responsible for the crisis continue to stuff their pockets with multi-million pound bonuses.

Public sector workers have been left with no choice but to strike and strike they will in their millions. Let's hope this makes this awful government see some sense.

Councillor Fozol Miah, Respect councillor for Spitalfields and Banglatown

Town Hall

Mulberry Place E14 2BG