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If the flagmaniacs really wanted to help our communities, they’d swap symbolism for solidarity and put in the hard graft and help their neighbours by putting food on tables, opening warm spaces, sorting out kids’ uniforms, lifts to hospital, checking in on elderly neighbours, supporting one another, instead of dividing each other.
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We have witnessed in the last decade a sea change in our politics, the far rights influence has crashed waves over the political landscape, the SNP parted the red sea and for a brief time socialism shone like a beacon across the land. In the immortal words of Bob Dylan Times They Are A Changin’.…
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Telling someone you’re a Corbyn supporter so they should get your vote is not enough, taking a vote for granted because you say you’re a socialist is not enough. There needs to be more, much more in order to galvanise the kind of support we need at grassroots level. That means setting out a local…
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Peace isn’t profitable Our protest is too suitable Need to grow the movement Bring it back to the local Reclaim our communities The people have the power The power of the rich Is the power to deceive Steal, rob and thieve Sleepwalking society My school teachers lied to me It wasn’t about my education It…
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Lingchi was an an ancient Chinese torture method which is more widely known in the west as death by a thousand cuts, a torture method this council seems to have adopted as its model for local government policy. Make no mistake that sooner or later people will die because of the butchering of our local…
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What are we building? What are we fighting for? I’m no longer sure. It seems to me that the left has become the most complex and convoluted system for lobbying the government that has ever existed. While communities have come under prolonged and sustained attack, completely ripped apart for generations now, it looks to me…
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Dangerous to mix fallacy and fantasy when digesting the media haphazardly acting spontaneous is a rarity in a system of complete conformity Why do we have austerity when we can make poverty history maybe it’s because we have planned poverty like that has control on the economy it’s a false dichotomy you have to ask…
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I would like to apologise to and thank everyone that took the time to go down and vote for me on election day, we may not have won but together we can still make a difference. Firstly me standing in the election was due to the fact the way our community is going did not…
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I would like to start by thanking everyone that voted for me in the elections, and I’m looking forward to building a vibrant Left Unity base within the East Midlands with you all. I would also like to congratulate Liz Silver, and I’m looking forward to working with her in representing the East Midlands on…
Solidarity Steve 