BREE LINKS UP WITH UNITED LEFT ALLIANCE

INDEPENDENT candidate Cllr Declan Bree, has linked up with an alliance of other socialist and independent candidates who are pledged to oppose the government’s austerity measures.   The United Left Alliance is composed of independents and groups who are pressing for the reversal of the cutbacks in wages and social welfare and who are opposed to the bailout of the banks and developers.

Among those involved in the Alliance are Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett, MEP Joe Higgins, Cllr Joan Collins, and the former Tipperary TD Cllr Seamus Healy.

Endorsing Cllr Bree’s bid for a Dail seat in the Sligo/North Leitrim constituency Mr Joe Higgins said: " Considering that all the mainstream parties are determined to make ordinary people pay for the reckless gambling of private banks, we need people with integrity in the Dáil who are willing to stand up for the Irish people and who will place the blame for this crisis where it belongs.   It is essential that people like Declan Bree are elected to the Dáil so we can work together in the fight to reverse the savage cuts in wages and social welfare imposed by Fianna Fail.”

Cllr Bree explained the importance of independents coming together to form an effective opposition to plans to make Irish taxpayers pay for the debts of banks and bondholders.  He said " I am running as an independent because I believe that the mainstream parties are all the same.   They all want to make ordinary people pay for the reckless gambling of private banks and bondholders with even further cuts in wages and social welfare.  

“If elected I plan to work with people like Joe Higgins and Richard Boyd-Barrett and other independents, to provide an effective opposition to these austerity measures.   I stand for the reversal of all the cuts to wages and social welfare.  I believe that our natural resources, gas and oil, should be used for the benefit of the Irish people, and I say that it is time that the wealthy in this country paid their fair share.

“Our alliance is committed to putting the interests of people first by ending the bank bailouts and scrapping the Universal Service Charge. We are also pledged to reversing the cuts in social welfare, education and public services.   Instead we will invest in jobs, housing, health and education. We believe that those who caused this crisis should pay for it, not ordinary people.” said Cllr Bree.