A recent Stormont report found that over 110,000 children are living in poverty in the Six Counties and that one in five people die in poverty in a single council area.
This further reinforces what previous statistics already told us: over 330,000 people in the Six Counties are living in poverty.
Just this year, Stormont MLA’s gave themselves a fourteen per cent pay rise, taking their salaries to over £67,000, whilst receiving free perks including trips and holidays abroad and continuing to cut vital services.
These statistics show that nearly 30 years after the Good Friday Agreement, Stormont has failed to deliver anything for the people of the Six Counties except poverty, misery, a mental health crisis, cuts to vital services, a drugs epidemic and one of the most heavily armed “police forces” in Europe.
It is only through a Thirty Two County Socialist Republic that the failures of the capitalist economic system, enforced by Stormont and Leinster House, will be corrected. It is only then that the Irish people can feel secure in their homes and their livelihoods, and have control of their own affairs, whilst vital services are properly funded.
