Looking for a way forward
My view
We have deliberated long and hard over a way forward politically. It is a known fact that people are totally disillusioned with the way politics is being used by the people within it to protect themselves while the people they should be protecting are left vulnerable. No one takes responsibility for the plight of the people, all placing blame on the other side.
We are told we live in a democracy and the ballot box is the way to change things. We have realised for a long time that we have been disenfranchised or pushed out into the cold by the very people who say they are our party, the party of the people. The Labour party has in fact been hijacked by those who wish to further their careers and bank balances through use of a system which most of them do not appear to worry if it is doing what it should or no.
Politicians use the old potato, they are all doing it, to justify practices which are in their own interest and not in the interest of the people or complying with the ethics of their ‘party’ whatever that party is.
I see posters stating they are going to vote UKIP. I see a vote for UKIP as a protest and as a default. Because of the disillusion people feel, they are looking for somewhere to cast their vote, or they are not voting. We all know that this actually suits those in power for the power of the people is then diluted and spread right across the board allowing the status quo to continue and the same self satisfied power hungry dynasties to keep control and milk the system to their and their cronies advantage.
Yet in all this we have lately seen a lone voice appearing in the media. The MP who has not milked the system and until now has not been given a voice is creeping in. People like John Mann and Dennis Skinner who have stayed true to their roots but who have been silenced by those who wish to retain the status quo.
Isn’t it time that they were sent back up?
The Labour Party belongs to the people. There are enough disenfranchised voters out there to join the Labour Party where they live; Neath, Port Talbot and Swansea especially. If enough people, and lets be honest there are millions out there who have had enough of what is happening in the Labour Party, the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, joined their local branches, there is power in numbers. Enough people of a like mind can deselect sitting Councillors and MP’s and put into place someone like John Mann and Dennis Skinner.
Yes the power is with the people.
We did it once and formed the Labour Party. Now that Party needs cleaning out.
Dynasties in Westminster and Cardiff Bay are powerless against the numbers of people who could swell the ranks of these institutions and stop people like Steven Kinnock and Ieuan Blair from stepping into the shoes of their parents who have lost sight of the power of the people and know only the power of those who rule.
Perhaps we do not need a new party. Perhaps we just need to show the parties already there the power of the people they belong to.
