{"id":3844,"date":"2015-04-23T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T11:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2015-04-23T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T11:33:10","slug":"132-a-month-wage-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=3844","title":{"rendered":"\u00c2\u0141132 a month wage disgrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bKeir Hardie was my kind of socialist\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 says Sandra Osborne and not only because of what she describes as the \u00e2\u20ac\u015boutward and progressive\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 views of one of the towering figures in the early history of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a matter of considerable pride that Hardie lived and worked in Cumnock, part of the area Osborne has represented since 2005 after the boundaries of her Ayr constituency were redrawn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFor people living here the issues are the cost of living and the impact of zero hours contracts\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she says. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI was out on the doorsteps the other day and this man showed me his wage slip for the month \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00c2\u0141132 and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trying to bring up a family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the cost of energy, we have been affected very badly by the cuts to college places, opportunities for young people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c really all the things we are addressing in the manifesto.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Osborne is a lifelong feminist who also has a strong interest in international solidarity and workers rights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long been active in addressing problems in this corner of west-central Scotland dotted with former mining communities. Her goal has been, she says, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bto try to maintain some jobs in the area.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Overall Osborne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s motivation is equality of all kinds \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u015bthis is about social justice\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Labour in her eyes is \u00e2\u20ac\u015bthe only party to put forward policies that can address these issues in a kind of realistic way. The Labour Party is the only party for me. It always has been and always will be.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keir Hardie, no doubt, would heartily agree with that sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bKeir Hardie was my kind of socialist\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 says Sandra Osborne and not only because of what she describes as the \u00e2\u20ac\u015boutward and progressive\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 views of one of the towering figures in the early history of the Labour Party. &nbsp; It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a matter of considerable pride that Hardie lived and worked in Cumnock, part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[273,224],"wps_subtitle":"Sandra Osborne \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}