SCOTTISH SOCIALIST PARTY
Media Release: 20th May 2009

Scottish Socialist European candidate Angela Gorrie will take the party’s message to shoppers in Aberdeen on Thursday 21st May when she will be campaigning on Union Street.

Angela repeated the party’s policy that anybody elected under their banner would refuse the “lottery winners” lifestyle enjoyed by other politicians.

She repeated the SSP policy that anybody elected for the party will live on a skilled worker’s wage.

Angela is the youngest person on the SSP candidates list for the European elections on June 4th.

She said: “The Scottish Socialist Party is entitled to remind voters that each and every one of their candidates is pledged to refuse the highly inflated salary of an MP/MSP/MEP and live instead on the average wage of the people whose interests they seek to represent.”

“Understandably promises in politics today are seen to be worthless but it is important to remind voters that the SSP MSP’ s honoured that promise for the entire time they were at Holyrood between 1999 and 2007.”

“ Each one of them lived on the average wage in line with party policy.”

“In the European elections in June we will once again pledge to live in a skilled worker’s wage and shun the millionaire lifestyle beloved of MPs which has rightly outraged the public.”

“The entire sleazy episode nullifies any credibility ‘career politicians’ have about their motives for going into politics. The resignation of the Speaker will not change that.It’s a funny way to ’serve the public’ stealing from the public purse and the SSP will have none of it.”