Being on the left is being on the right side of history. Socialism is not extreme, it is not communism, it is not geographical, it is simply giving every person within our country, and hopefully someday our world a fair chance to live a safe , healthy and happy life.
Its recognising some need a safety net, especially the vulnerable, the chronically sick, the disabled, and ensure our human rights are treated as inalienable, our for ever and cannot be removed.
Do not be decieved The Labour Party is no longer socialist, they do not have the values i have laid out.
Socialism may be at time informed by scholars, but not defined by them. Being able to quote Marx does not make a socialist.
Socialism is not extremism, when you become extreme left you are at the very least using communism, which is an idealogy that in a world without greed, a world without people wanting recognition and power would maybe work, but we live with human nature, so such a world cannot exist, but Socialism can. The extreme of extreme meets the extreme of extreme right, and that is about stripping rights, putting people into boxes, about discrimination, suspicion and hate.
Extremism, whether political, religious or cultural should have no place in our world.
There should be no extremely rich or extremely powerful people in our world
There should be no rulers, just democratic leaders who truly are accountable to the people for their actions.
If we take hate, discrimination and division out of the political and biased media tool boxes, people truly will/would see that socialism is about humanity, not greed, but not naivety either.
It is not giving the lazy a free ride, it is not about corruption and greed, thats all capitalism.
The problem currently is the fear mongering being touted by the ‘extreme’ right of “immigrants”. People scared “our country” will be overrun. The people that believe this also believe Britain is a purely “white” country, and many that Britain is simply England.
Sadly I have to tell these people, you are totally wrong. Britain has since humans could travel by water and even before there was water separating the continents been multicultural, multitribal before that.
The majority of people in the UK have genetics that prove their ancestors were not solely from the British Isles.
The Union Flag (often mistakenly called the Union Jack) is mad up of all 4 recognised nations of Britain.
The flag would not likely exist without the blood, sweat, tears and sadly lives of people from all over the globe that fought for what was the British Empire. These people were not just white, English, or even white British.
Britain has had waves of people entering it throughout history, the main migrations, some by force, were the Romans, the Vikings, the Norman’s, the Windrush generation, but also people who worked for or served under Britain not just from Empire (now Commonwealth) countries, but also allied powers, in time of war.
Many of the current migrants are running from war, from terror, from death, they are refugees and have a right to request support.
Economic migrants have to meet conditions to remain.
People coming into the UK through non-official channels usually will be returned to their country of origin unless they meet the requirements to remain.
No immigrants, refugee or migrant get benefits until their official status is approved. They get a basic allowance to survive. They cannot work legally until they have proved that they have a right to. Sadly some companies and employers ignore that, and will often pay under minimum range (slave rates) and not declare them.
So before ypu believe all you read in the press, don’t just take my word, go do a little research h for yourself
Jonesy, simply a human 