I AM standing for Weaver Vale as the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate.

We argue that working class people should not pay for a crisis that we did not cause.

TUSC was set up in 2010, co-founded by the late Bob Crow, to show that there is a clear left-wing alternative to policies of public sector cuts, privatisation, militarism and environmental degradation.

Labour has given up their socialist identity and has followed Thatcherism in their privatisation of public services.

Miliband, Clegg or Cameron believe we should have more austerity.

TUSC says NO to austerity and that those who created the economic crash should be the ones to pay.

If I get elected I promise the people who elect me, I will be accountable to them.

And if I fail to fight for their interests, then they will have the right request I stand down immediately and I will.