The conduct of some in the Labour Party in the
north east and Derby has been awful not just over the Durham & Derby Teaching
Assistants campaigns but the fallout from Thatcher’s policies and successive
governments which have decimated your communities.
What has happened over several decades is that
working class areas have been treated as “voting fodder” that has enabled some
Labour MPs to be parachuted into safe Labour Party seats and a long career in politics.
Nothing more best evidenced this practice than
at the Durham Miners Gala last year when Davey said Tony Blair (Sedgefield MP)
had never accepted to speak at the Gala.
For me it was shameful, an absolute disgrace,
and is partly one the reasons the working class vote has declined in subsequent
General Elections.
Yet knowing all of this I am campaigning to
help elect Jeremy to win the General Election in 2017 and bring in Labour
Policies the like of which we have never ever seen.
We have had two governments in 2010, 2015 and
both have ripped up workers terms and conditions and escalated the brutality of
austerity that now blemishes our communities everywhere.
Jeremy wants to offer something different a
different world. No more tugging our forelocks for the scraps at the table but
a world where we see the end of poverty, injustice and jobs, education and a
fully funded NHS free for all of us that use it.
If you remember when the first Labour MPs coup
started against Jeremy, Davey called them traitors.
and he banned
them from the Gala. He pulled no punches about what he thought of them and I
agreed with him.
I was having a drink with Davey and Graham before the Gala.
He explained to me that this was the first time there had ever been a socialist
leader of the Labour Party in his life time and he was 100% committed to
helping Jeremy elected.
This is why I am going to do the best I can to play a small
part to help put a Labour Government into power that will end misery, poverty
and endless attacks on the disabled, workers and our communities.
I may be wrong, but I think that if Davey was still with us
he would be out in Durham drumming up support for a Labour Vote in order to
make sure that when Jeremy speaks at the Big Meeting this July, he will do so
as Prime Minister.
What is clear that grassroots campaigns are showing time
again they have a greater reach than the establishment and that includes the trade
union movement.
My
request.
Please turn your legendary social media skills in encouraging
the young people you have taught to register to Vote by 22 May and then turning
out the Labour vote in your communities.
The establishment with the support of the mainstream media
say we can’t win.
Well B****x
to them.
“Grassroots never give up and never give in until we win and
that means with Jeremy as Prime Minister.”
Solidarity
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