David Marchesi

My Priorities

1.Raise taxes drastically for the mega-rich ,which would include Mr Cameron and many of his comrades,and increase the highest rate to 70% of income over £100000 p.a. Capital gains tax should be at a prpoer level to discourage speculators, many of them in essentials for other people's lives, such as housing.VAT should go, and Socialist Labour wants direct taxation, not indirect taxes.

2. Out of Europe, which is basically a capitalists' club, with little input from the working people of Europe. In fact, banking/finance has become the way Europe imposes its rule.

3.Withdraw all troops from war-zones , including , I have no doubt, a few SAS etc who operate in areas which are completely out of the news; we need to break our long tradition of kow-towing to the USA, which has , of course, different national interests from ours. In the same way, it is outrageous that Israel has been able persistently to ignore world opinion, as expressed through countless UN rsolutions, but with the support of the US and , in general , the UK. Israel's national interests are, again, NOT ours, and the country has recently been described by the Turkish PM as the main threat to peace in the Middle East.

4. With proper taxation of the Big Money, we could raise the minimum wage to £10/ hr.-and, as our name says, we would proceed to nationalise the major industries, rail, public utilities and - why not ?- banks.The tax-payer today is helping maintain the bankers' bonuses through governemtn money put into "saving" the banks. Tha is, our money is finding its way to the Big Money Boys.

My Experience

One-time member of "Old Labour", I have rarely stood for elected office, although was a union representative in Australia, where I grew up. I believe I could have been a candidate for New Labour at some stage, but felt, and feel, that this would have been a betrayal.

Questions I have been asked