Author: neilmoore

Courtney, born in the year of the Good Friday Agreement, condemns attack Courtney Robinson, East Belfast Labour Alternative spokesperson, today said: “I am saddened to hear of the tragic death of Adrian Ismay. The dissident republicans responsible for this disgusting attack have nothing to offer the people of Northern Ireland. They are intentionally stoking the flames of sectarian division. It is vital that we send a strong message of condemnation of this attack and let those behind it know we will not be dragged back into conflict. No groups or individuals should carry out 'retaliation' for this heinous act. Instead, ordinary people - Protestant and Catholic - must stand together against attempts to drag our communities back to the days of tit-for-tat killings." “I was born in the year the Good…

We are told that Arlene Foster and Martin McGuiness’s St. Patrick ’s Day junket  will create new jobs for NI. In reality it is more about selling off the future of my generation. The key purpose is to promote the DUP and Sinn Fein’s plans to cut corporation tax by 2018. This will have the effect of taking £300 million out of our public services- meaning less money for public sector jobs. In effect what the assembly parties are doing is out-torying the tories by pushing for these extra cuts. Nor has plans to cut corporation tax stopped multinationals like Gallagher’s and Michelin from closing their factories here. Any jobs that they will get will be low paid, anti-union jobs which will not replace the public sector and manufacturing jobs we…

DUP and Sinn Féin offer workers spare change not real change! Labour Alternative candidate in South Belfast, Seán Burns stated “Simon Hamilton's imposition of a 1% pay increase is an insult to health workers. In reality, this amounts to a pay cut when the increased cost of living, changes to national insurance and pension contributions are factored in.” “The Health Minister writing in the Belfast Telegraph said that health workers deserve this pay increase. This is patronising in the extreme. Why is it that workers in health only “deserve” a 1% pay rise when MLAs got an 11% increase last year?" “From the DUP to Sinn Féin, the politicians are congratulating themselves for giving our health workers this measly increase. Yet these same politicians agreed to slash thousands of public…