Read the second part of Jon Wilson’s argument here.
We need a plan. Politicians need an idea of where the country is going in the next few years, and who needs to do what to get there.
In this series of posts, I’ve argued that Labour needs to speak the language of the people to put hope back into our politics.
Read the first part of Jon Wilson’s argument here
For hope to be possible, political leaders need to show how they and the people can make things better together. We, in the Labour party, have lost the ability to do that. We don’t talk about how things really happen.
I met a man on the doorstep a year ago. He had a decent job in the railway industry. But with the cost of living rising, he was working seven days a work to keep his family afloat. He was angry that City bankers were paid millions after messing up the economy. Politicians, of every party, had just handed them more cash.
We talked for half an hour.