Pat has unnervingly attacked the complicity of all the parties in the Assembly Executive for carrying out cuts to the health service. In particular, Pat has repeatedly challenged Sinn Fein councillor Tom Hartley who sits on the board of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust which has carried major cuts to health services. Pat is currently the West Belfast organiser of the Stop the Cuts Campaign.
Pat told socialistpartyni.net “The people of the Lower Falls and West Belfast have been betrayed by those promising change. We were told by the parties in the Assembly that they would deliver jobs and investment, but they have done the opposite. Since 2006, the numbers of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance in West Belfast has risen by 60%. The only jobs which have been created seem to be for political hacks and cronies. Instead of fighting cuts, all the parties in the Assembly are making them – we need a socialist alternative which is capable of uniting all working class communities, Catholic & Protestant – against the cuts.”
Pat is standing for Belfast City Council in the Lower Falls ward
Pat is also standing for the Assembly in West Belfast
If you would like to assist in Paddy’s election campaign contact 07810522111
Statement from Socialist Party Scotland
Decisive battle between the 'reds' and the government?
Speaking about regeneration in his Sunday Independent column in December of last year, Willie O'Dea spoke of how many working class families in Limerick had left behind established communities in the inner city "for the promise of good housing in a good environment. That promise was betrayed."