Yu Dynasty Yingdala (4338-4636)

[Wu Han]

Lotus Party Leader Attends Organized Labour Rally in Hazhou
Wu Hán Lashes Out at National Democrats, Pledges to Create Jobs in Region
HAZHOU, SHU - 15 October 4257


Wu Hán, Leader of the Lotus Party, speaking to reporters at the Hazhou Labour Rally

The Leader of the Lotus Party, Wu Hán, attended the Hazhou Labour Rally today, which was organized amid concerns for the manufacturing sector in the region. He used the opportunity to criticize the government's 'laissez-fair, we-don't-care" approach to the economy and pledged to create "high-paying, sustainable" jobs in the province and across the country. He pointed to the failed legislation proposed by his party and by the Nationalist Party as exemplary of the pro-worker measures he would take to this end. Speaking to reporters, Mr. Wu also responded to remarks given by National Chairman of the National Democrats, Yuán Cháo at the Yingdala Economic Forum, held last month:

Mr. Yuán is certainly free to fear-monger about our party and about me to his millionaire and billionaire friends. I understand he needs their support, but all I'll say is this:

Yes, our party does aspire to fundamentally change our economic system. Why? Because the Republic's Conservatives, and frankly, Mr. Yuán's buddies, have gone through with a fetish-like obsession to remove as much regulation as possible without regard for the future of Indrala. All you need to do is look at the 1/4 workers in Hazhou who will be losing their jobs next year, and you can see just how disastrous this laissez-fair experiment has turned out to be.

He continued:

While it's nice that Mr. Yuán can gather a group of elites and billionaires in a small room, thousands of kilometers from here, to talk about what's going wrong with the economy, I'm much more concerned with hearing what the reality is for working people. We know that Mr. Yuán isn't interested in listening, since the National Democrats either abstained or voted against legislation put forward by our party and our colleagues in the Nationalist Party to address the manufacturing crisis here. If the National Chairman is so concerned about the economy, why doesn't he have the courage to come face the workers being laid-off out here in Shu? I think it's because he, and all the elites supporting him, know that his plan for the economy is just more of the same: more deregulation, more stagnancy, more neglect. He just hopes to sell it better.

---

Originally posted by Wu Han on 16 August 2017.