Vote Morag Balfour

Make Capitalism history!

Pensions: fewer forms, more money

Older people should receive £160 as a basic state pension. We want to see the earnings link restored and abolish council tax completely for all those with an annual income of less than £10,000.

Pensioners should be able to live rent free if they are council tenants and all should get their heating costs paid for so that no more die of hypothermia.

These things should be of right, without having to fill out complicated forms.

"Older people should not have to scrimp and scrape after a lifetime of hard work. It is a scandal that pensioner poverty is allowed to exist in the 21st Century."

A cleaner, greener Scotland

For decades Fife has been dumped on, from landfill dumps to opencast sites. Morag has been active in the campaign against the planned landfill at Westfield.

Raising recycling levels, waste prevention and renewable energy are the only means to a sustainable future as nuclear power offers only long-term pollution. Scotland's natural wave and wind power can be harnessed cleanly.

End the occupation of Iraq

Iraqis need self-determination not occupation. They also need our support. The wealthy nations of the world should offer humanitarian aid instead of handing billion-dollar contracts to their big-business pals. They must not be allowed to make a killing twice!

We need to stop sending young people to their deaths in illegal wars, and end the economic conscription that puts them in the firing line. No family should have to sacrifice their sons and daughters to line the pockets of the rich.

"100,000 innocent people were slaughtered as a result of Tony Blair's and George W. Bush's lies - equivalent to wiping out the entire Glenrothes Constituency."

Socialist answers to crime

Our communities are blighted by drug crime. Windows can be repaired, stolen property can be replaced, but rebuilding victims' lives takes much longer.

Offering prescription heroin to addicts is successful in numerous countries. It reduces crime, gets addicts back into employment, and could put dealers out of business.

Forget tagging and Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, young people need routes away from damaging behaviour towards meaningful and productive lifestyles. The poverty - crime link must be broken so police can target career criminals. Being positive instead of punitive makes real change possible.

A vote for the SSP says that you believe in your community.

More jobs, better pay, fewer hours

Poverty often starts with low pay and stress-related ill health affects 75% of all working people. You don't have to be unemployed to be poor nowadays. The SSP would introduce a minimum wage of £7.60 an hour, applicable to all ages, and a 35 hour working week.

This would create 24,000 new jobs in Scotland in the public sector alone.

"Labour refuses to pay public sector workers properly. Instead they sell of schools and hospitals to the profiteers and send the bill to a yet unborn generation."

Scrap nuclear weapons

We must end the use of depleted uranium weapons, which cause cancer, birth defects and will continue to pollute areas where the UK has used them for thousands of years.

Britain's nuclear weapons system - Trident - cannot be used legally. The warheads in each missile are EIGHT times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

Tony Blair has endorsed the use of Trident as a 'loaded gun' to the heads of the world's poor, forcing them to hand over their oil resources.

The SSP would scrap Trident and retrain MoD staff to ensure that abolishing weapons of mass destruction does not mean thousands of job losses.

About Morag Balfour

Morag Balfour is 31 years old. She is the SSP's Peace and Disarmament spokesperson and a member of the Iona Community and a Quaker. Morag is best known for her involvement in the Trident Ploughshares anti-nuclear organisation, and has taken part in a number of high profile demonstrations. She is on the Executive committee of Scottish CND. In her teens, Morag worked with an inner-city charity in one of the poorest areas of the USA. She has since worked as a support group facilitator for chronic pain sufferers. Morag is a member of FifeWest Action Group, campaigning against proposals for a mammoth landfill site at the former Westfield opencast near Kinglassie. Away from politics, Morag has a keen interest in geology and the magical works of J.K. Rowling.

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Published by Morag Balfour, 15 Hermitage Green, Glenrothes KY7 4SG
Promoted by Felicity Garvie, 14 Friar Place, Scotlandwell KY13 9WN

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