Journalist Michael Crick, who once specialised in investigating and attacking Militant (now the Socialist Party), turned up this week with a film crew outside a café in Walthamstow.
Inside the café, some members of Waltham Forest Socialist Party were hosting a discussion on how to build opposition to the government’s bombing of Syria – and how Labour MPs who voted for the bombing, like Walthamstow’s Stella Creasy, could be countered both inside and outside the Labour Party.
See Channel 4 piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3qXY_-abY
15 year old Nancy Douglas, who participated in the meeting in the café, responded:
I chose to be involved in politics. I chose to be involved because even at my age I can see the destruction being caused around me and the complete disregard for anyone who isn’t white or rich.
I chose to be involved in politics because the government we have today doesn’t stand for the people, they stand for themselves and their own profits.
I chose to be involved in politics because I saw a left wing alternative that stands for the right thing and provides a contrast to the hypocritical politicians we know today.
I chose to be involved in politics because current politicians are making decisions for my future that I can’t have a say in.
I chose to be involved in politics because the youth of today aren’t fairly represented.
I chose to be involved in politics because by the next election I will be the one holding the ballot paper, making a decision for my future and choosing the MP I feel fit to do this.
I chose to be in politics because of my future.
I chose to be involved in politics because we are the future.
