At the Executive Meeting of the Reading Trades Union Council
on 28 June, it was unanimously agreed to organise a rally in support of Jeremy
Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party and to uphold Corbyn’s principle of
opposing austerity measures which are hurting the poorest, most vulnerable in
society and seriously eroding our welfare state and NHS.
Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Labour leader by an overwhelming
majority of Party members in 2015 (59.5% support in a four-candidate contest) and
retains strong support in the country at large, including trade unionists and
Party members. Indeed, he has brought many people who had become disillusioned
with politics following five years of Tory-Liberal coalition and the election
of David Cameron’s Conservative Government in May last year back into activism,
with Labour Party membership increasing by 150,000 in the past year.
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| Reading Chronicle, 30 June 2016, p. 6 |
