I remember Jeremy Corbyn from my childhood. He was one of the only MPs to support the campaign to free the Birmingham Six, a campaign whose London base was started by a small group of workers, mostly from Islington council, one of whom was my mother. The children of the campaigners lived and breathed that campaign with our parents, and it has definitely left us with an ingrained loyalty to those MPs who put their heads above the parapet on these cases long before their universal recognition as miscarriages of justice.
Yet now, two decades later, Jeremy is standing for the Labour Leadership, there is absolutely no way I could support him and I wanted to explain why. I see many lovely (and some not so lovely) people writing posts about how they will join the Labour Party if he was the Leader, that they would support his true socialist Labour Party and not the…
View original post 813 more words
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Recent Comments