UK election 2017 | Broadsheet.ie

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Earlier today.

Members of the UK Labour Party in Dublin and supporters met at the James Connolly statue in Dublin city to call on Irish people living in the UK to vote Labour.

Brendan Howlin (out of picture).

Dan O’Neill writes:

We are here to call on Irish people living in the UK to turn out and vote Labour tomorrow.

For years now the UK has witnessed the Tories closing libraries, maternity and accident and emergency departments, mental health facilities, women’s refuges, services for people with disabilities and nurseries. And yet tax cuts keep coming for the rich.

The Conservatives have created division at every opportunity — the division that led to Brexit, and has driven a wedge between our two islands.

The Conservative Party’s reckless handling of Brexit has not just undermined the future wellbeing of the UK economy, but it has also greatly jeopardised the wellbeing of the Irish economy. Their willingness to play political games with the day-to-day lives of people on both sides of the Irish Sea is, frankly, unforgivable.

The UK Labour Party calls for a society which puts everyone first, rather than putting the interests of the wealthy above all else. One in which workers enjoy some security rather than being forced onto zero-hour contracts; one which protects the right of those at work to have their say in their workplace.

We support the UK Labour Party and urge our Irish friends living and working in the UK to do the same.

Thanks Dan

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