PRESS RELEASE
Tuesday May 26 2009
Immediate
No2EU – Yes to Democracy confirms programme of election broadcasts as former Labour MP Alice Mahon declares her support
No2EU – Yes to Democracy today confirmed a full schedule of election broadcasts this week and announced that former Labour MP Alice Mahon will declare her support for the No2EU coalition at a public meeting in Birmingham tonight.
Alice Mahon resigned from the Labour Party last month after 50 years of membership. She was the MP for Halifax from 1987 to 2005.
Mrs Mahon in her resignation letter said she could no longer be a member of a party "that at leadership level has betrayed many of the principles that inspired me as a teenager to join". Her letter, sent to former colleagues in her Halifax constituency, was sharply critical of Labour's failure to deliver a promised referendum on the EU "Lisbon Treaty".
"If that Treaty is ratified", she wrote, "we can say goodbye to any publicly owned services...... we will be handing over to private corporations, social services, education, transport and postal services. Even the NHS will be up for grabs".
Alice Mahon will be joined on the platform at Carrs Lane Church Centre in Birmingham at 7.30pm tonight by former Labour Coventry MP Dave Nellist who is standing on the No2EU slate.
No2EU's election broadcast programme kicks off tonight and will roll out over the week:
Channel Five - Tuesday May 26, 6.55pm
S4C – Wednesday May 27, 7.25pm (Welsh language)
BBC one - Wednesday May 27, 10.35pm
BBC two - Wednesday May 27, 11.20pm
BBC Wales - Wednesday May 27, 10.35pm
BBC Scotland – Wednesday May 27, 10.35pm
ITV Scotland – Wednesday May 29, 10.30pm
ITV – Friday May 29, 10.30pm
ITV Wales – Friday May 29, 10.30pm
Bob Crow, No2EU Convenor, said:
"Today we've seen that the spotlight is at last turning on the EU gravy train and the levels of greed amongst MEP's which make our Westminster MP's look like rank amateurs when it comes to lining their pockets at our expense. No2EU is standing for public services, democracy and workers rights against the gravy train and the sleaze and corruption of the bosses and bankers Europe."
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