Comment from Rachael (Rae) Lynch - Teacher, British Socialist Party member and South West region No2EU candidate in the forthcoming EU election.

‘Mainstream politicians, some of whom even have the audacity to claim for their moats to be cleaned, are out of touch with the lives we lead.

‘I stand on the principle of elected representatives taking a worker’s wage in the tradition of previous Socialist Party representatives such as Dave Nellist, Pat Wall and Terry Fields.

‘The No2EU - Yes to Democracy campaign is the first time since the formation of the Labour Party that a trade union has taken part in an electoral alliance on an all-Britain scale.

‘It encourages me, as a young trade unionist, to think I am seeing the beginnings of the reconnection of young people with the trade unions and left-wing politics.

‘No2EU is another step towards re-forging the bond between the working people and politics that represents them.’