Why vote for Giovanna
I support the following:
Social and Climate Justice for the Many not the Few!
TAKE THE ‘PRIVATE’ OUT OF PUBLIC SERVICES:
Stop shareholders looting tax payers’ money. End private healthcare. Bring back public ownership of water, transport, energy, and integrated health and social care. All achieved after World War II with a rock bottom economy – we can do it again!
END THE HOUSING CRISIS:
Build council houses. End no fault evictions. Limit rents. Pause private house building and stop property developers’ donations to politicians. Use the 1.5 million empty homes for the 1.2 million people on waiting lists.
EDUCATE FOR LIFE:
End profiteering academies, private school tax breaks and student loans. Free nursery for under 5’s. Restore youth services; Teach how to manage money and debt, understand politics; live sustainably; and grow food.
PREPARE FOR A WARMING PLANET:
Stop chasing unsustainable and destructive economic growth. No new oil. Use UK energy profits to expand UK renewables. More pesticide free farming. End animal factory farming. Create a nationwide UK food growing programme using public land.
A FAIR DEAL FOR ALL:
£15 per hour minimum wage to tackle poverty. Create hundreds of thousands of jobs by expanding public services and transitioning to a green economy with a national programme of home insulation. Reduce the pension age. Pay WASPI women. End benefit sanctions. Restore the right to strike and protest. Re-affirm the Human Rights Act.
CLEAN UP TAX AND GOVERNMENT:
Close tax loopholes, abolish off shore accounts, and end non-dom’s. Stop MP’s second jobs and honours for cash, lucrative contracts for mates, and donations for political favours.
BROKER FOR PEACE:
Negotiations, not bombs. End arms sales. Encourage resource sharing. End the Gaza slaughter. Justice for Palestine.
IMMIGRATION:
Blame politicians, not immigrants, for the failing economy and public services. Set up effective systems to welcome people fleeing war, climate disasters, and persecution; support their aims to contribute to our communities and rebuild their lives.
I am a socialist and a climate activist. As part of ‘Grannies for the Future, I work with the hope of helping to leave behind, for all our grandchildren, a safe and sustainable world that is free from the damage and destruction perpetuated by misinformation and excessive greed, exploitation, and war.
About Giovanna:
I’ve lived and worked in South Dorset for almost 40 years and am a mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. I’ve had a variety of jobs in commerce, industry, education and the NHS.
As a Portland Town Councillor for the past 5 years, I’ve served on many committees and working groups to help keep it running. I’ve tried to use my position to develop local social and climate solutions, including getting the council to set up a Climate and Ecological Emergency, helping set up Portland’s Free School Meals Top-up Scheme, Portland’s Community Fridge and Warm Bank, expanding Portland’s Community Allotments, and planting trees. During COVID I was part of Portland’s Resilience Committee and helped at 2 foodbanks and with shopping. Throughout my council term, I also helped people with housing, benefits and other issues.
Outside Council I’ve campaigned to protect services, people and planet, playing key roles in (and sometimes founding) various campaigns:
Keep Portland Hospital,
Stop Portland Waste Incinerator,
Portland Global Friendship Group
I stand for a positive and solution based society, not one based on lying, corruption, and hate.
Opposition to the Labour Party
A combination of Labour’s stance over Palestine, climate activism, refugees, and lack of democracy, led Dorset councillor Giovanna Lewis to resign from the party. Giovanna wanted to stay and try and push for Carralyn Parkes, who is on the left and the current mayor of Portland, to be Labour’s parliamentary candidate for South Dorset, but the Labour right pushed through candidate Lloyd Hatton instead. This well-polished, professional-looking Labour candidate, who grew up in Weymouth, arrived in Dorset a couple of months ago. Not long after, the party sent an email stating that Hatton was the parliamentary candidate for South Dorset, and that there would be no shortlisting. This was just one example of how the right wing Labour Party leadership tries to bypass democracy and get its people in, and it was the last straw for Giovanna.
Opposition to the Conservatives
Fourteen years of lies, corruption, and squeezing those most vulnerable while blaming everyone else. What more reason does one need to vote for a person who has spent much of her working and volunteer life in the healing sector.
Opposition to Reform UK Ltd
The following article sums up the impact of Nigel Farage and his type.
For those who want to move on from the toxic abyss that has been created. Start here by voting for Giovanna.
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