Father of 2 boys. Working class. Left wing. Green Party voter.
Jan 1 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Increases in migration are driven by war, the climate crisis, and the economic and political instability that follows.
Migrants aren't to blame for war or the climate crisis, or for your living standards, and crumbling public services.
Governments are to blame for all of these.
So until you've got a government that promotes global peace and action on the climate crisis, increases in immigration will continue.
And until you've got a government willing to invest in living standards and public services, things will only get worse.
Jun 1, 2024 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
The Left is being purged from UK politics.
With negative stories of accusations of antisemitism and actively cancelling Left voices, most recently, Zack Polanski was cancelled by BBC Newsnight.
The Left will be shut out of televised election debates.
Starmer's Labour vs Sunak's Conservatives, both on the Right of the political spectrum.
Left voices excluded from parliament. That's what they want.
Don't let them win.
Keep fighting! ✊️
The Labour candidate, in our constituency, Aldridge-Brownhills, Luke John Davies, has been openly hostile to the Labour Left and its supporters on Twitter/X.
Luckily, we do have a Left candidate in Aldridge-Brownhills, vote for the Green Party on 4th July.
Oct 24, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Keir Starmer has successfully removed all traces of Corbyn's policy platform from the Labour party. By moving Labour towards a more conservative policy platform, he hopes to win over Conservative voters.
But what does this mean for British politics now that the two largest parties are essentially fighting for the same voters?
It leaves a huge section of the electorate deciding whether to vote for one of two conservative parties, one of the smaller parties, or not at all.
The good news is that many of the largely popular policies that Starmer has removed from the Labour party exist within another party. @TheGreenParty, a party that is growing rapidly within local councils, winning more and more local elections year on year.
When the Labour party was created in the early 1900s, something similar was happening in British politics as is happening today. The two main parties at the time were no longer listening or acting in the interest of large swathes of the population, and a fledgling Labour party sought to take advantage of their failures.
Now, we see the same happening, but this time, it's Labour and Conservatives failing to listen to large swathes of the public. They simply have no appetite or intent to deliver popular policies for the British public, and another party can now take advantage of their failures.
When we look at the general potential size of the electorate today and compare it to the number of people who have been traditionally voting Labour and Conservative, the gap has been increasing for many years. To the point where the people who vote Labour or Conservative are vastly outnumbered by the people who don't.
We have a great opportunity to outvote both of these parties in the coming elections.
Chart figures:
53,000,000* UK population over age of 18
46,500,000* UK population currently registered to vote
13,966,454 Conservatives voters 2019
10,269,051 Labour voters 2019
29,264,495* Did not vote Labour or Conservative
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