Sinn Féin mark May Day with right to work protest

Sinn Féin marked International Workers Day last Tuesday (May Day) with a Right to Work demonstration in Wexford town. Speaking at the event Cllr Anthony Kelly said that it was the anti worker economic policies of Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Labour that left our county in a situation where 20,000 Wexford people are unemployed and 4000 are emigrating every year.

“This is the new emigration generation,” Cllr Kelly said, “20,000 people are unemployed in County Wexford today. We are venting Wexford’s young people at the rate of 4000 a year. When Brendan Howlin talks about the importance of exports all I can think of is those people who are being forced to emigrate, and of the broken families that they are leaving behind. Victims of austerity.”

“In the weeks ahead the Irish Austerity Troika of Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Labour will attempt to scare monger the electorate into voting yes to a treaty that offers only cuts and tax hikes in the years ahead. The Fiscal Compact, or Austerity Treaty to give it a more fitting title, will institutionalise the very economic policies that have failed so spectacularly under the current and last governments if ratified.”

“The politicians, economists and public personas who have admitted that the economic proposals in this treaty would be disastrous for Ireland but still campaign for a yes vote on the basis that it’s the best we can get are guilty of reckless indifference in the face of potential catastrophe. This treaty will attach the very economic policies that drove us into stagnation to our constitution. It will lead to permanent austerity and permanent poverty. Any so called expert who says that we must vote yes to something like this has lost the plot.”

“The politicians, economists and public personas who have admitted that the economic proposals in this treaty would be disastrous for Ireland but still campaign for a yes vote are guilty of turning a blind eye to the terrible effects of austerity on ordinary families. They say that without this treaty we will face economic ruin. Look around, we are already economically ruined.”

“The many sporting and cultural clubs around this town that cater for our young people have seen the full scale of emigration from this town. This treaty will attach to our constitution the very economic policies that have given birth to a new emigration generation. It will lead to permanent austerity and permanent poverty. Any so called expert who says that we must vote yes to something like this has lost the plot.”