Thread by @mattyrichy

Today, via proxy vote from my home in Brazil, I will vote with pride, joy and hope for the Labour Party

Here’s why…

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Because climate change is the defining issue of our time and if we carry on as we are, our planet will die. It’s as simple as that

Only Labour has a plan for rapid decarbonisation that can secure the livelihoods of ordinary people

We need a Green Industrial Revolution NOW

Because we need to break the 30+ year consensus that says we can’t have properly funded universal public services, affordable housing and dignified pay and working conditions

These are the basis of any civilised and cohesive society

Only Labour defends these principles

Because we need to fight growing racism

Both from an emboldened far right and from a government that has presided over the hostile environment, the Windrush scandal, and fomented xenophobia and Islamophobia

Minorities are unsafe under a Tory government

Because, while Labour has mishandled real problems with antisemitism, the greater long-term threat to Jews comes from the far right

AS is poorly understood across society & mass education is needed

Starting internally, Labour can –& I believe will– contribute +vely to this task

Because I know that my late Jewish grandfather, a history teacher and lifelong socialist, who went to war to fight Nazis and suffered unimaginable horrors in a POW camp, would have wanted me to vote Labour (God I miss him!)

Because Jeremy Corbyn has been my constituency MP since the year before I was born & I know he is that rarest of things in politics – a person with integrity

I don’t agree with all his views, but I know he is a true democrat. With him in the leadership, we know we are heard

Because it is amazing to finally believe that change is possible

I never thought I wd join a political party or even vote with enthusiasm. & I know there are millions who feel the same way. We are a tidal wave

Whatever happens today, this is only the beginning

#VoteLabour 🌹