Where it all went wrong…
In 2025, the main political issue being discussed is immigration. The people of the UK are being stripped of the NHS, free dentalcare, proper housing for their families – all, according to Nigel Farage, Patrick Christys and the Reform brigade, because of the so-called ‘illegal’ immigrants flooding to the UK. Yet how could the mismanagement of funds by MPs be their fault? How could these people be ‘stealing’ the UK taxpayer’s money, if the total discretion behind the allocation of British finances falls to Rachel Reeves and the Labour party, or the Conservatives before it? This distraction technique proves bountiful to those who appear oh-so-concerned (with Nigel Farage earning over £120,000 a month aside from his MEPs salary), yet is detrimental to the working class, the very people they claim to represent. Want to find out a bit more about dear Nigel? Check out this video by Led By Donkeys.
The problem with these lies is that they only distract us – we have someone to blame and to hate, and can forget about the policies that get pushed through parliament, or whether our local MP even bothers to turn up (sorry Clacton!). Yet ultimately, we see no change. This happens again, and again, and again, yet we don’t see through it? Do you remember when it was the EU that was at fault? That we were giving them too much money, they let the immigrants come to us and there was nothing we could do unless we left? Well look how that turned out.
Labour’s performance in government has been nothing more than disappointing, with a truly socialist party long in the past, forgotten. The Conservatives, after many dire years in power, provide a shambolic opposition. The citizens, right now, would not touch either party with a barge pole. This leaves a hole in the two party system of the UK. A hole being filled by the far right.
The UK voter has three options:
- Vote for Labour, who you hate.
- Vote for the Conservatives, who you hate.
- Vote for Reform, who seem to speak the minds of the people who are upset, but, in 6 years, you will hate.
Yippee.
A possible beacon of hope?
That is, until another option appears. Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana (amongst some over MPs who have defected from Labour) begin promotions for ‘Your Party’. A political party of the people. A party where you get a say. At the time of writing, over 600,000 people (myself included) have signed up to hear more from this party, and be invited to a conference where the path the party takes will be decided.
The press has always had a hatred for Jeremy Corbyn, and perhaps rightfully so – what on earth would their shareholders do if they were properly taxed, and the money used to actually benefit the people of this country? I would not suggest that I agree with everything the independent MP stands for, or all of his policy suggestions of the past, but I would say this:
Is it not better to have a socialist party do even 10% of what they promise for the average citizen, than have Reform strip money away from people who need it, privatise our vital services and only further reinforce the gap between the working and owning classes?
Corbyn promises us hope. Farage promises us hate.
Could ‘Your Party’ actually be something good?
So what does that mean for us?
The only concern I would suggest is a division of the left – as in, another viable party option serves to once again divide the vote, making it increasingly likely that the next government be on the right side of the spectrum – whether Conservative, Reform, or a happy little coalition of both. However, with Labour playing with austerity politics more than dearly departed Maggie Thatcher, is the party really left leaning anymore? Do they care about the unions, the workers, those who struggle? Or do they care about winning the supposedly popular vote. Go have a look at Starmer’s Facebook page. Does that look like socialism to you, or the words of a softly spoken, boring young Adolf?
Labour perhaps now fit the marker of a central party – a central-right one in fact. So perhaps the left is only ‘Your Party’ and the Greens. Maybe this is what this country needs, before Farage turns our NHS-loving nation into an abstract, slightly shittier version of the ‘American Dream’. Maybe Corbyn and Sultana, although far from perfect, at least give us a choice. An attempt to help the people, rather than starving them some more and blaming someone running from a war.
It is exciting to at least have a choice. And that is why, although the future isn’t yet clear for the party, I truly do look forward to hearing what they have to say. You should too.
Michel Foucault saw society as the domain where power is enforced and resisted, and currently, both Reform and ‘Your Party’ are the options of resistance. Perhaps this, therefore, makes them the cornerstone of British politics today.
