Hi everyone, I just wanted to talk to you a little bit about my post-election thoughts and what I think we could expect from the future.
I suppose my first thoughts when I woke up
at 6am this morning were – okay well it looks like we’ve got another 5 years of
an oppressive, austerity driven tory government, no matter what shape or form,
and that is obviously a very disheartening and frustrating thing. There’s no
doubt that we’re really going to have to fight against another 5 years of
social injustice and dishonest politics from the the torys. We’re likely to
face some tough times ahead.
But I was also quickly filled by a massive sense
of achievement, and overwhelming hope.
Despite all the odds – having had the press, the establishment, and even some
of his own MP’s obsessed with disrupting his dignified and passionate vision…from
start to finish, this man, Jeremy Corbyn, has shown the country…shown the world…that
people power CAN change things through simple messages, united causes and
simple human dignity. And that our country has a clear appetite for democratic
socialism.
This maverick of a leader, with the whole establishment
against him has secured 261 seats, more than his past 3 predecessors and has halted a tory majority. This maverick of a
leader is the first anti-establishment, left-wing leader in our political history to disrupt our toxic political
status-quo in such a way. Moreover, there’s no doubting the fact he has played
a massive part in engaging the largest amount of young voters in our political history – an astonishing 70% of 18-30 year olds
– the majority of whom voted Labour. In short, this man has done something SO
many deemed unimaginable. For a country that has been asking for change and real representation for decades we have
shown a clear message that, for a huge amount of us, doing things in this way,
could be the answer.
So I suppose the big question now is – what
next? Well first and foremost…we don’t yet know what will come of the next few
days – whether Theresa May will indeed be able to form a weak minority
government or whether it could all go copout and we find ourselves back at the
polling stations in 6 months’ time. Who knows.
But no matter what happens, there is one thing we all must do: we must maintain this fantastic political
momentum by truly backing the left starting now onwards. Collectively the anti-tory, anti-austerity progressive
alliance we now have in parliament, has the chance to defeat the torys, now
more than ever. We have such an important task ahead of us; supporting those
who will be working day in day out to fight the unjust and manipulative regime
that the torys will try and entrench into our society, once more. So I urge you
to not see this result as defeat, continue to speak out, continue to demonstrate,
continue to support your Labour representative or whoever else you have voted
for, be it through canvassing, debating, blogging or even just retweeting the
odd statement. We cannot give up now. We have a serious chance of putting the
concerns we have voiced today into fully-fledged action in the not to near future.
So do not give up. And I just want to finish
by saying a massive thank you to everyone who put such impassioned work into this
campaign, to everyone that voted labour, and most of all to Jeremy Corbyn –
because he is the person who has, time and time again, who has put everything
he has into fighting for this change, against all the odds. As a young, first
time voter, I have never be so inspired and motivated to fight for what I believe
in, and I’m know so many others feel the same.
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