The Conservative Party have, as ever, offered little more than vapid sloganeering, vile smears, deliberate misrepresentations, thinly veiled hate speech and closed-door electioneering during this absolute shitshow of an election campaign, and the same can be said for their usual cheerleaders, our glorious “free” press (which are majority-owned by three ancient billionaires who avoid tax like the tax is lava). I call it an absolute shitshow because an absolute shitshow it has been, a period where any of semblance of ‘impartiality’ has crumbled to dust among our national broadcast media and the Conservatives’ eye-watering lies have been repeated to us wholesale by the unblinking parrots at the Beeb (their unwavering subservience would embarrass North Korea). None of this should come as any surprise of course, because what else do the Conservative Party and their attentive bottom feeders, snug in the pocket of the 1%, have to offer but more of the miserable same? What else do the Conservative Party, now a motley rabble of “sincerely committed racists and scorched-earth free marketeers” following Johnson’s purge, have to offer but more catastrophic cuts to health, education, and social care; a sociopathic indifference for the most vulnerable in our society; rampant authoritarianism and an insatiable lust for animal cruelty?
Corbyn and the Labour Party are often represented as the danger: awful with finances (FACT CHECK: Labour - old and New - have a combined borrowing of £500,000,000,000 over their thirty-three years in office whereas the Conservatives’ borrowing has reached £862,331,000,000 in the last nine years alone) and soft on crime (FACT CHECK: violent crime recorded by police in England and Wales has risen by 19% on the last year alone under the watchful eye of a Conservative government, a direct consequence of their wanton cuts to police services, prisons, rehabilitation services and post-prison services). You might accuse me of cherrypicking these facts and figures but trust me on this, I could be here all day. Our country is falling to pieces and it has been for ten years. Pain and suffering is epidemic on our streets and the Conservative Party’s ‘Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014’ prevents charities and campaign groups from revealing the full extent this epidemic. Everyone from the British Red Cross to the Trussell Trust, Shelter to the Black Triangle Campaign, Amnesty International to Oxfam, Greenpeace to the Child Poverty Action Group have been effectively gagged.
What has also been ignored is the festering sickness at the heart of the Conservative Party and it has been ignored in favour of attacking Labour, polluting the airwaves with a (wildly exaggerated) antisemitism crisis. So let me suggest that you do some research on the Conservatives and antisemitism. And then the Conservatives and transphobia, the Conservatives and homophobia, the Conservatives and misogyny, the Conservatives and islamophobia, the Conservatives and racism, the Conservatives and ableism, and then Grenfell and Windrush and Operation Vaken. Visit Calum's List and read Philip Alston’s UN report, confront the stone-cold fact that 130,000 people are dead due to the Conservatives’ austerity programme and millions more have been left homeless, starving and in poverty. If that isn’t enough, just listen to the absolute bile that has dribbled from mouths of our abhorrent Prime Minister and his miserable cohorts. Whereas Labour isn’t perfect (and who would claim them to be?) it is the Conservatives who are the danger to the people of this country and even a simple internet search will put proof to that fact.
Please remember this today: what Labour offer is something genuinely new. If Labour can achieve even 50% of their promises, all of our lives will be richer for it. Millions of children could be lifted out of abject poverty and the countless thousands living on our streets may finally have a roof over their heads if you cross the right box. And please remember this, what Labour have promised is not the impossible dream that it has been dismissed as by oh so many, the achievements of Attlee and Bevan following World War Two - which left our country flat-broke and exhausted - is proof to THAT fact. The Labour Party’s ‘impossible dream’ is not impossible, it is fully-costed and back by economists. The Labour Party’s ‘impossible dream’ is not impossible, for it has been possible in Sweden and Denmark, Norway and Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Portugal. The Labour Party’s ‘impossible dream’ is not impossible, it is what our country deserves. It is what our children deserve. It is what our friends and our families and our neighbours deserve. It would give us a country we can be proud of, a beacon of empathy and compassion and hope.
Do the right thing. Vote Labour.
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