On Saturday 16th April as part of the West Belfast Assembly election campaign People before Profit alliance and election candidate Gerry Carroll took their campaign to the streets of the Shankill.
Gerry Carroll stated ‘It’s the same wherever we go, be it the Shankill or the Falls road people are fed up with the politicians in Stormont. Constantly we are hearing on the doors that the politicians are only out for themselves coupled with a deep anger and concern over the cutbacks’.
‘The reception we received on the doors on the Shankill was fantastic .A lot of people agreed with us when they heard we were against all the cutbacks and for taxing the super rich’.
‘Quite a number of people also confirmed that they were giving me their first preference vote on the 5th May, which was great. People are struggling to make ends meet as it is and are desperate for an alternative which will stick up for ordinary people and call for the rich to be taxed and the bankers to pay us back’.
Stormont is united in its support for cuts and attacking public services .People Before Profit is an alternative which unites people across all communities to reject the cuts and form a radical ,fresh kind of politics in Northern Ireland’.
‘At every election, parties stick to their own communities in the North. Unionist parties campaign in ‘Unionist’ areas and Nationalist parties campaign in ‘Nationalist’ areas. People before Profit wants to break that mould .We believe that workers, students, pensioners, unemployed have a common interest to come together to defend our living standards from the onslaught which is coming’