07 April 2005
As the Tory candidate for Cambridge says "this is the bit where I tell you what a good chap I am"!
The election campaign in Cambridge is one part of a much larger socially progressive movement. We are growing in numbers and confidence all the time and we are all looking beyond may the 5th. Defending pensions, exposing the phony war on terror and protesting about inequality, the environment and Make Poverty History at the G8 summit are going to follow on from the work we do in the next month.
Our campaign differs from the three main parties. Like tacky TV producers fighting for a diminishing audience they are trying to outdo each other with poor imitations of bad ideas. It would be funny if it was not so very dangerous. In both cases you end up with shallow TV gimmicks that hide terrible lies. Our campaign is about exposing lies and standing up to the Daily Mail agenda. The changes that we all know are so necessary for our society we hope will follow!
Hardly any one I have spoken to so far denies that there is a massive problem with the political system we have in Britain. Too many people still seem to be waiting around for someone else to do something about. Perhaps the euphoria of knocking the Tories from Government lasted a little longer than I though for most people. Blair so explicitly aligning himself with the right wing following 9/11 could mean that some people are still suffering shell shock!
Like everywhere, there is absolute disgust with the New Labour Government in Cambridge. Some people are genuinely quite depressed about it and there is much despair at the mess we are in. This really encourages me! Given how Tory minded the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown team is, and what a great big protection racket they are running, I would be a bit concerned if people weren’t annoyed and upset.
Promoting the July G8 and Make Poverty History demonstrations in Edinburgh and Gleneagles is one the most important parts of this campaign. Lots of people in Cambridge do their political activity through single issue campaigns. As elsewhere, Respect members and supporters are very involved in these campaigns and we have also spent the last year building new links across groups and trade unions. The G8 offers us a rare opportunity to unite many of these struggles and provide a massive show of solidarity to others across the globe who are living under the corruption of global capitalism and the G8 mafia.
Hope to see you there!
Our campaign differs from the three main parties. Like tacky TV producers fighting for a diminishing audience they are trying to outdo each other with poor imitations of bad ideas. It would be funny if it was not so very dangerous. In both cases you end up with shallow TV gimmicks that hide terrible lies. Our campaign is about exposing lies and standing up to the Daily Mail agenda. The changes that we all know are so necessary for our society we hope will follow!
Hardly any one I have spoken to so far denies that there is a massive problem with the political system we have in Britain. Too many people still seem to be waiting around for someone else to do something about. Perhaps the euphoria of knocking the Tories from Government lasted a little longer than I though for most people. Blair so explicitly aligning himself with the right wing following 9/11 could mean that some people are still suffering shell shock!
Like everywhere, there is absolute disgust with the New Labour Government in Cambridge. Some people are genuinely quite depressed about it and there is much despair at the mess we are in. This really encourages me! Given how Tory minded the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown team is, and what a great big protection racket they are running, I would be a bit concerned if people weren’t annoyed and upset.
Promoting the July G8 and Make Poverty History demonstrations in Edinburgh and Gleneagles is one the most important parts of this campaign. Lots of people in Cambridge do their political activity through single issue campaigns. As elsewhere, Respect members and supporters are very involved in these campaigns and we have also spent the last year building new links across groups and trade unions. The G8 offers us a rare opportunity to unite many of these struggles and provide a massive show of solidarity to others across the globe who are living under the corruption of global capitalism and the G8 mafia.
Hope to see you there!
