SHERIDAN DEMANDS NO SCOTTISH SURRENDER TO PRESCOTT



Scottish Socialist Party MSP and Convenor Tommy Sheridan today demanded the Scottish Executive stand up to John Prescott’s Mussolini type tactics on the firefighters’ strike.

He said,
“It is clear that New Labour is pushing Labour in Scotland to follow his bully boy tactics and impose a settlement on the firefighters. This will lead to the cutting of firefighters’ jobs, fire stations and fire cover. New Labour will put Scottish lives at risk in order to crush the FBU.

I shall be challenging Jim Wallace today and Jack McConnell tomorrow that they must stand up to New Labour. If they don’t, then it is not just firefighters who will remember this, but all trade unionists and Labour voters at the coming election. Richard Simpson MSP famously accused the firefighters of being fascist. We now know who the real fascists are.”

For more information, contact Tommy Sheridan on 07887 795075 or Hugh Kerr on 0131 348 5631/07713 063647