In the run up to the General Election on December 12th, I will be writing a number of political posts aimed at any indecisive voters that may still exist in our pulverised country.
I will not apologise for arguing the case for a Corbyn-led socialist Government that will deliver the real change that the UK is crying out for. The fact that it will improve conditions for the disabled community, is a welcome bonus.
I will now hand over to my good friend and political comrade, Adam Samuels, who has written the must-read piece below.
#VOTELABOUR #JC4PM #VOTEHOPE #VOTECHANGE
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Many people now are no fans of Blair & Brown (while acknowledging good things were also done), but Labour didn’t cause the crash in the UK. In fact, Brown took steps that assured it wasn’t worse. The Tories backed EVERY penny of Labour’s plans then, as admitted recently by Osborne. In 9 years the Tories have missed EVERY SINGLE ONE of their own fiscal targets. By their OWN figures, people will be on less on average in the mid 2020s than they were in 2007. TWO decades of unprecedented wage stagnation and regression. The Tories, in those 9 years, have borrowed more than every Labour government combined. Ever.
Borrowing is not the issue, but borrowing AND implementing the economically stupid & morally reprehensible austerity shows how shit they are re economics. We are, literally, the most unequal country in Europe. Slowest growing major G7 economy. Foodbank usage was 41,000-odd in 2010. It’s now 1.6 million. 14 million people below the poverty line. 4 million children. Meanwhile the top 1% have DOUBLED their wealth in that same time period. 60% of those in poverty are IN work!!! IN work!! Record homelessness, record suicide rates, record insecure work, record worker rights and union repression, record crime etc etc etc.
Labour’s economic plans are backed by 130+ of the world’s top economists, including at least two Nobel Prize winners. Every penny of where money came from and where it will be spent was fully costed in Labour’s ‘Grey Book’, which will again be published for this election. Labour’s plans are based on the National & Regional Investment Banks as used so well in Germany and elsewhere. So, unless you think the best economic minds and Germany are economically stupid…Add to this that Johnson has REMOVED worker rights, environmental protections, consumer protections and food standards from his Brexit Deal, and them OPENLY admitting they will be changing worker rights if we leave…
Re Iraq, Corbyn organised the 2 million people march AGAINST it and his own Party. Check out his voting record. He was correct re Iraq X 2, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria X 3 now, not arming Saddam Hussein in the 1980’s when we did, Apartheid where he was getting arrested for being anti-racist when the Tories were literally calling for Mandela’s head, the financial crash of 07/08 down to the specifics of the American sub-prime mortgage market issues (and was ignored), Israel/Palestine, the Birmingham 6, the Guildford 4, started the proper NI peace talks and is cited by both sides as doing so, he, along with Abbott & McDonnell was one of only 6 MPs voting against Windrush, AUSTERITY when he and anyone supporting him was told in 2015 that to be anti-austerity (which NO other Labour leadership candidate was) was a “Far Left, commie, utopian, unelectable, loony left fantasy” Now even Tory MEMBERS are anti-austerity!!! Now Johnson & the Tories are pretending they will out-spend Labour while trying to claim Corbyn is a Marxist dictator?! You can’t have it both ways!!!
Corbyn has tripled membership of the party, making Labour the biggest Party in western Europe. In 2017, he gained the biggest vote share increase of any party leader of any party since Attlee in 1945. With the entire media establishment against him/us. He’s made the party far more democratic than ever before, and as with the famous, popular 2017 manifesto, it gets written by everyone from me up to Corbyn. He gets hourly death threats, has had assassination attempts on him (Darren Osborne-see court records), punched in the head etc etc. All for US. Not him, US. He cannot be bought, hence The Establishment hating him and smearing him. He is the most lied about politician of all time (see independent LSE report, BBC bias report etc-there are several). He’s defeated coups, has the ENTIRE media against him on all formats, with no mainstream media on his side (The Mirror & The Guardian previously turned on him).
Oh, and to nip this one in the bud…he has been made Right Honourable by the Queen. Which means he’s on the PRIVY COUNCIL-i.e. access to top level UK & world secrets, where you have to be vetted by MI5, MI6, GCHQ etc….therefore, he OBVIOUSLY CANNOT be pro-IRA murders, a Russian stooge, a Czech spy, an anti-Semite (to paraphrase the great Andrew Feinstein who was a South African MP under Mandela, lost 39 family members in the Holocaust & lectures on the Holocaust: “Jeremy was there from day one re Apartheid. He’s literally the least racist person I know. I am proud and honoured to stand as a Jewish man with Jeremy”), or whatever rubbish they try and make people believe he is because they’ve lost the political argument-so try and discredit the individual.
He pays TOO much tax (check out his public tax returns), pays for members of his own team out of his pocket, donated his pay rise to charity as promised, then uses what money he has left to fund the local Credit Union for people who cannot get loans. Indeed, in the 80’s he took out a £30,000 to build a desperately needed community centre used by many different groups-it wasn’t even in his constituency!!! He was there day one re Orgreave, Hillsborough (we have a Corbyn & McDonnell banner on the Kop at Anfield), and was the lowest ever expenses claimer-£8.95 for an ink cartridge when some Tories were claiming £100,000+ to clean their moats amongst other things! Literally!
So, if you want an NHS, vote Labour. If you want a second ref-literally the ONLY way is to vote Labour. If you voted Leave and reject the dangerous Johnson/No Deal, Labour has already agreed a Leave option in theory with the EU-so vote Labour to choose that in the Ref if you are a leaver. If you want to end austerity, literally the only way is to vote Labour. Only two people can be PM-Johnson, a man backed by fascists & billionaires who is openly going to sell off the NHS to Trump, who voted AGAINST STOPPING privatisation of the NHS last week, along with the Tories. The Lib Dems abstained???!!!, or Jeremy Corbyn.
I do not want to look future generations in the eye when they ask “Why did you get rid of the NHS, why can’t I buy a house or even afford the rent, why have I got unpaid hols, why in the environment getting worse, why is there no secure work, no pensions worth having etc” and then tell them “It’s because Corbyn didn’t sing the National Anthem, they believed the lies, someone didn’t like the way he wore a suit etc…”. Justify that! Justify my terminally ill friend having his benefits cut again to literally fund a tax cut for billionaires.
Whether you love, hate, are indifferent to Corbyn, this election is WAY beyond ‘normal’. It is a battle for the very soul of the UK. Labour built the NHS, the Welfare State, a National Education system in their 1945-1951 government. From scratch. When the country was truly broke after WW2 with debt at 250% of GDP. While growing the economy far faster than previously-with SOCIALISM/Social Democracy. Ditto FDR in the USA who massively grew the US economy in the 1930s the same way. Ditto Portugal now who, via anti-austerity, have completely turned around their economy after a horrific Conservative failed government. Scandinavia has been doing it for years. Bolivia, under Morales, has been an amazing success story and are now independent of the World’s Bank. Ecuador under Correa for ten years was a huge success.
Re Tax Increases: If you earn £82,000 a year, you’d pay £8.30 more a month in tax under Labour. Don’t forget ONLY 5% of the UK earns £80k or more- 95% OF US ARE NOT AFFECTED by these tax rises. In return, we’d get a Green New Deal, free education, a proper NHS and homes for all. Don’t let the CONservatives et al scare you with their outright lies re Labour’s tax plans. Oh, and Labour plans to raise corporation tax to levels STILL lower than Germany, the USA etc. I don’t see companies fleeing those countries…SME (Small Medium Enterprises) will be supported to adapt to any changes with taxes, or, for example, the raising of the minimum wage.
Debt per GDP here in the UK is now 88% approx (MASSIVELY increased since the Tories took over in 2010). So I am quite sure we can easily do what Labour wants now. If WE fight for it and stop believing the white noise of lies. Corbyn is NOT a pacifist, but he is force ONLY as the LAST resort. He has won at least 3 International Peace Prizes, including the Gandhi Peace Prize. He does not want to get rid of our armed forces-quite the opposite-he wants them properly paid, not sent to war on a lie or for some power/oil-grab, he wants them housed and not on the streets as many are, with proper kit if they do have to risk their lives. But this is a fight we MUST win. Let’s make sure we don’t blow it, eh? 
#VOTELABOUR #JC4PM #VOTEHOPE #VOTECHANGE
