I’m fed up

I’m fed up.

I’m fed up with being told that the Labour Party cannot win a General Election without changing their leader.
If it hadn’t been for Jeremy Corbyn the Tories would still have a 38 seat majority.
I’m fed up of being told that Jeremy Corbyn is responsible for Brexit.
He isn’t. David Cameron and the right wing of the Conservative Party (I.e. most of them) wanted the referendum and had no plan for what to do when Leave won.

I’m fed up of hearing that Jeremy Corbyn is an ineffective leader.
Compared to whom? A large part of the problem is that Jeremy receives no positive media at all, and is the most smeared politician in recent history.
I’m fed up of hearing that Labour is anti-Semitic.
It isn’t, it never has been. That’s not to say that there are no Labour supporters who hold anti-Semitic views but that is nothing to do with the party which has the most robust anti-Semitism policies and procedures of any party in Europe.
I’m fed up of hearing that the Lib Dem’s can lead a progressive alliance.

Lib Dem’s tell lies to get votes

The Lib Dem’s were part of a government that introduced austerity, cut benefits to the disabled, trebled students tuition fees (when they explicitly promised not to) and made it more difficult for workers to go to industrial tribunals.
I’m fed up of hearing that we are all better off.
According to the United Nations we have 14 million people living in poverty in the UK. Over 100 people have died in the past three years as a direct result of DWP decisions to cut their benefits.
I’m fed up of hearing that heatwaves and record breaking temperatures are something to be celebrated.
They are not. They are a symptom of a climate crisis that threatens not just our way of life but life itself.
I’m fed up of people criticising groups like Extinction Rebellion because they disrupt ordinary people.
I fully support Extinction Rebellion and the school kids led by Greta Thunberg for bringing the crisis to our attention. Having to take a different route to work for a couple of days is not disruption. Real disruption will be when the planet can no longer sustain human life because we have not acted to repair the damage we have done.
I’m fed up with being told that war is the answer.
If war is the answer we asked the wrong question.
I’m fed up with being told it is unpatriotic not to support our troops.
I can’t think of anything more unpatriotic than flag waving as we send our young off to die for
somebody else’s cause.
I’m fed up of hearing that the only thing that matters is (stopping) Brexit.
4 million schoolchildren going to school hungry every day, homelessness reaching record proportions and the rise of the right all happened whilst we were in Europe. Whilst Europe might not have been the culprits to think everything is centred on our relationship with Europe is naive.
I’m fed up of hearing one right wing Labourite after another undermine the possibility of a genuinely progressive programme getting enacted.

At the last General Election Labour were a cat’s whisker away from being the Government. That was with the half-hearted (at best) support of the Labour establishment. Since then as they have lost control of the party they have continued to sow the seeds of doubt in the general public about the Party for their own narrow, sectarian ends quite prepared to sacrifice the poor, the destitute and the powerless so that they can seize back control of a party that they had made unelectable.
I’m fed up of hearing that socialism cannot work.
As if capitalism has been a roaring success for all but a few. Socialism is an ideal based on the belief that we should act in the interests of the many not the few. It is a belief that we should protect the
weak and the vulnerable. Ultimately it is a belief that in a system founded on mutual respect that the well being of each is best served by ensuring the well being of all. It can work if only we free our minds of the fetters that prevent ordinary people from using their ingenuity and their creativity for the common good.
I’m fed up, but I’m not giving up. The stakes are too high.