Tired old politics of abuse now irrelevant
Western Daily Press, 5 Jun 2024, p. 19
It’s rather sad that Paul Mercer resorts to throwing around cancel-culture smears rather than engaging in an intelligent conversation (‘Feeling sorry for our capital city’, Letters, May 31).
In his rather limp attempt at humour, Paul is right about one thing: the ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn!’ campaigning anthem will most certainly be deployed in Mr Corbyn’s campaign for re-election to parliament. Oh and of course, there were 160,000 ‘Trots’ singing this refrain at the Glastonbury Festival in 2017.
Paul depicts very well the tired old politics of abuse and cancellation that are now irrelevant to the times we are in. Across the country, voters are rejecting the bankrupt, infantile left/right narrative, and are embracing a new kind of politics that privileges independent voices, honesty and truth-telling.
The great Noam Chomsky advocates creating what he calls ‘an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up, not a top-down candidate producing organization like the two official parties’. That’s certainly what we’ll be doing here in Gloucestershire for the next five weeks.
Dr Richard House
Stroud, Gloucestershire
Other Letters to the Press
- Political system is utterly bankrupt
- Credit where it is due - Stroud MP Dr Simon Opher
- Political parties have been irresponsible
- Causes of riots
- Starmer’s abject failure of leadership
- Tired of Punch & Judy politics in the UK
- Corbyn’s victory was extraordinary
- Poppycock
- Political opinions are not always far apart
- Corbyn’s success deserves acclaim
- Electoral reform is even more overdue
- Farage on the Ukraine war
- VAT on private school fees takes away choice
- Don’t vote for the self-serving elites
- Communities should have more control
- Time to reject main political parties
- We can break two-party cycle
- Independents day might be coming
- Current system is strangling democracy
- Tired old politics of abuse now irrelevant
- Anti-semitism
- Starmer’s Labour is Campbell on steroids
- Independent voices starting to be heard
- Elphicke defection is scarcely believable
- Voters show disdain for party-political system
- The Independents are on the march!