15 million eligible voters didn't vote in the 2019 GE. The return of Nu, New Labour, will no doubt deter many of those same people from exercising their vote again, as the "suits" return to Labour. I'm currently unable to justify voting for any of the establishment parties. 1/17
No doubt, I'll be accused of being a Tory enabler, by many of the same people who refused to vote Labour, when the choice was mild Socialism under Corbyn, or Barbarism under Johnson & his Tory cabal! 2/17
Those same people, who claimed to be politically homeless 3 years ago, because Labour for a brief period began to represent the people it was created for; the poor and the marginalised, feel relieved now the grownups are back in charge. 3/17
They can pretend, once again, that they care, while doing little to challenge the status quo, other than advocating for more foodbanks. As someone who's been politically disenfranchised for most of my adult life, barring those Corbyn years. 4/17
I can no longer go back to voting for the least worst option. Corbyn, (I know he wasn't perfect,) showed me a glimpse of what a politician should be; what a leader could be, when their motivation is genuine societal change, instead of career advancement. 5/17
I'm not willing, anymore, to support a system which elevates the worst of us to high office, while the best of us feed's themselves from foodbanks, and sleep in tents; doorways. 6/17
Our country is broken. The current political class will not fix it, because they're a big part of its brokenness. We need to shake up the system. None of the mainstream party's will do that, because they benefit from it; it keeps them all powerful, and the rest of us weak. 7/17
The FPTP system is always the stick used to browbeat people into voting for the lesser evil, but, the lesser evil is still evil, and voting for it over the last 30 years, is the main reason we now find ourselves channeling the politics of 1930s Germany. 8/17
Their is no political solution to our current mess, which involves any of the mainstream party's, imo. They caused it; still have little insight into what they did wrong. A wise person once said, "if you keep doing the same thing, you'll keep getting the same results." 9/17
That's where we, the people, must step in to fill the void. No one is going to save us, other than ourselves. The current FPTP system sucks, but what if we use it to our own advantage, a bloodless coup, removing all the neo-liberal MPs from parliament, via the ballot box. 10/17
Using the very system they've used to generate political apathy, to create a political revolution. Every constituency in the country, standing an independent candidate of the people, who works and represents the People; not think tanks or media barons. 11/17
Just imagine the bloody nose (metaphorically of course,) we could give the establishment, if we #UnseatTheLot of them, and replace them with independents, made up of our friends, families and neighbours. 12/17
For too long we've given over our power to "our betters," the people in suits, now it's time to reclaim & step into it ourselves; rule for the many, not the few. There's already a pretty popular manifesto from 2017, written with the many in mind, we can coalesce around. 13/17
How many of those 15 million non-voters would be more likely to vote for a candidate who comes from their own community, who walks their walk; talks their talk. 14/17
There's a reason why the current political system is designed to disinfranchise large swathes of the population; because if they became politically engaged, the gravy train would stop. 15/17
Imagine the difference those 15 million votes could make to the outcome of a General election; the biggest protest vote in history, bigger than Brexit! A seismic political shift, transfering power to the people, true democracy in action. 16/17
We can change the world, but we need to be the change, we can't wait around for someone else to lead us, we don't have the luxury of time on our side, we need to lead now. So let's #UnseatTheLot and create a fair, just country, which represents the best of us. 17/17
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