Middle-class suburbia has all the economic, social and cultural power.
Why, then, should the parliamentary boundaries not give a little extra political clout to the poor, to the working classes, and to the countryside?
Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
We can win this one. But doesn't the new seat offer you greater opportunities?
ReplyDeleteIt's the principle.
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