VOTE NO2EU!

RMT helpline 0800 3763706 :: may 2009 :: RMTnews Since No2EU-Yes to Democracy was launched the European Commission has given the green light to privatise Eurostar and the European parliament has backed the ‘liberalisation’ of healthcare across the EU. These two events alone reveal the EU’s drive to force discredited free market dogma into our public services. The European parliament rubberstamped the Health Services Directive after the Party of European Socialists abstained, paving the way for private companies to take over health services. This directive represents the biggest threat to our National Health Service since it was set up in 1948 by a Labour government. Labour MP Gisela Stuart has warned: “I bet you my wages that in 10-15 years, if this Directive goes through, we cannot have a generally tax- funded NHS system”. And Gisela knows what she is talking about as she helped draw up the original EU Constitution as a member of the hand-picked convention. She described the renaming of the Constitution as the Lisbon Treaty and the pretence that it was a different document as a “deeply dishonest process”. Unfortunately, dishonesty has become a common word to use when it comes to describing politicians these days. Sleaze, corruption and lying seem to have become the national sport among our politicians. No2EU is standing as a protest against these practices which are so widespread within the EU that it even has a name, the gravy train. The huge allowances handed to MEPs, which are not open to public scrutiny, makes them over a million pounds every five years. That is a scandal, particularly when you discover the European Parliament doesn’t even make laws. That privilege belongs to the European Commission which is unelected and stays the same after these elections. Therefore No2EU is calling on everyone who supports democracy and public services to turn out and vote on June 4 for our candidates which are standing in every region of Britain. We are standing on a clear platform of defending of public services and workers’ rights and against the Lisbon Treaty and the EU gravy train. MAKE A DIFFERE VOTE No2EU-YES Bob Crow explains why you should vote No2EU: Yes to Democracy in the euro elections on June 4 NORTH WEST: No2EU campaigners in the North West region out on the streets of Preston WEST MIDLANDS: No2EU candidates march in defence of manufacturing in Birmingham 4