Labour Party - judge them on actions on power, not promises before the elections

andrew
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:09:07 +0000
Election 2016, Elections, Feminism, Labour Party, Pro-choice, Repeal 8th, Gender, The Left, National, Opinion, Analysis, Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird

Here Labour come again, back on our doorsteps to test the waters, to see if we're still mad about the past 5 years of their governance, to find out if we can remember every attack they made against us, probably in the hope that there have been so many that maybe, just maybe, we'll only remember a few. A party riddled with so much contempt and disdain for us that they genuinely believe they can convince us that things will be different this time. They bombard us with sentences along the lines of "You will get X, Y and Z with Labour in government".

Crudely, they tell us that one of the things we can expect from them is a referendum on the 8th amendment, with top-notch propaganda to go along with that promise, propaganda painting them as pro-woman and pro-choice. There is no propaganda effective enough to cover up the war that they have waged on women for the past 5 years.