Tuesday evening the Redcar Labour Party held another disputable hustings. The Redcar constituency has been Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem in the past ten years.
Since, the Conservative government has led to wide spread economic chaos - largely due to it serving only itself and its friends rather than the general population - and Labour are polling well nationally, we would normally assume a Labour victory in Redcar. However, the Labour Party has shot itself in the foot by selecting Anna Turley. The former MP who people tactically voted out in 2019. The selection included some Labour members saying they were denied a vote and at least one party resignation.
The current MP Jacob Young, in my opinion, is a poor MP. He takes selfies, makes out he's a nice young wholesome man, and then goes to Westminster and votes for economic turmoil in parliament. He is clever as what he does. He apoliticises himself, to distract from his poor economic and environmental voting record. The economy is stuffed due to Young and his mates allowing an economy ran by an oligarch (Rishi Sunak) to serve in the interest of the elite few while the rest of us are stuffed.
However, Young's chances of re-election are massively improved by Turley being selected.
Turley's selection also has implications for the Lib Dems. Three months ago I wasn't a councillor, the thought that I may get dragged into a general election campaign within months didn't come into my head. I wouldn't have been anybody's choice. However, since then I've topped the poll in Marske, become the highest voted Lib Dem on the council, and Labour have chosen a soft candidate for the general election who was implicated in my Labour Party ban for life from standing in any election back in 2012.
Wednesday morning the email from the Lib Dems inviting me to sit the candidate's exam arrived in my inbox. I've been asked to contest the Lib Dem Selection. So I'm giving it a shot. The Lib Dem process is democratic. So it will be a fair contest. I always fancy my chances in a fair contest, which in my opinion is why I was banned by Labour. I don't think they want somebody from this area telling the truth to local people and railing against the financial and political elite. That can be seen in Kier Starmer's refusal of a fairer UK voting system.
I'm not obsessed with being an MP. I like my day job, and the trips to London don't interest me. I prefer it here in North East Yorkshire. But I'm bothered about improving our lot, and helping save the planet, and Turley and Young haven't done the former and do little about the latter. Personally, I don't even think they've tried on either account. I don't see them as brave. I see them both as party-liners interested in their own political careers.
I have no interest in a political career - but I have interest in telling the truth and fighting the corner of the general public. The general election campaign is a platform to tell the truth on the corrupt upperclass political and financial elite, on how we should tax the wealth of the superrich, on how our income tax is used to fund their lifestyles rather than schools and hospitals, and so on, and so on.
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